Hitman: Agent 47
2015 · Directed by Aleksander Bach
Original language: English
- action
- crime
- thriller
The story
An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.
What it’s like
Glossy, saturated digital action with a cool blue-grey sheen: sleek hotel corridors, rain-slick city streets, and sterile corporate interiors lit by hard overhead fluorescence and sudden neon. The camera leans on fast handheld tracking, quick cuts and slow-motion gunfire, while a pounding electronic score fills the gaps between bursts of close-quarters fighting. The vibe is slick, impersonal and driven, with a coolly stylised kind of tension rather than real dread. Violence is frequent and stylised, with gunfights, hand-to-hand combat and several deaths shown on screen, but there is little gore beyond the occasional wound or spray of blood. Sexual content is minimal. Pacing rarely lets up, and the emotional register stays flat, mostly carried by a stoic, emotionally shut-off assassin slowly drawn into protecting a young woman searching for her origins. It suits a loud, distraction-friendly night in, for viewers who enjoy video-game-style set pieces, sharp suits and franchise-action momentum, and not for anyone wanting something gentle or quiet.
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