Hitman Agent 47 trailer review

Hitman: Agent 47 is the second movie based off of the popular videogame franchise of the same name, except this one is completely unrelated to the first Hitman movie and is a completely fresh take. Fans of the original videogame seem to think the movie looks crap while general audiences seem to think it looks okay...and i'm kinda with the general audience. No, i've never played any of the Hitman games, mostly because it didn't look like my type of thing, so when the fans tell me that this film looks to be a complete misrepresentation of the character and world of the Hitman games, i can't deny it, so i just have to take their word for it. But just as a movie, it looks decent, it's very colourful, the action seems nice and slick, it's got a good cast behind it, i was actually looking forward to this movie based on the trailer...and then I found out who's writing it.

The film is being written by the one and only Skip Woods, if you don't know who this guy is, well he's written such classics as X-Men: Origins Wolverine, The A-Team and A Good Day to Die Hard. To basically put it, he's never written anything good in his life, and personally i see him as the worst writer in all of Hollywood. His writing is lazy, terrible representations of the characters he's adapting and his films are filled with plotholes. How the hell this guy keeps getting work is beyond me, especially when considering that he wrote the previous Hitman movie! Which also sucked! Why would they hire him again!? And fact is, the movies he's written, he is clearly the problem, stuff like A-Team and Sabotage were competently shot, the big problems always come from the scripts, his scripts. Whenever I see his name on a film, that is justifiable for me blacklisting it from ever been seen by me.

I am a firm believer that every bad filmmaker can make a good film and vice versa, but this takes away all hope i had of this being a good film. Am I still gonna see it? Probably not, unless it gets good reviews, but again, Skip Woods, i seriously doubt it, honestly just getting average reviews would be a major step up for him.

-Danny