Better late than never, Hitman movie reviewed

Blood, bullets and beauties - It's the perfect formula for an action film and that's exactly what Hitman brings to the big screen. Based off of the Hitman video game series, Agent 47, portrayed by Timothy Olyphant, must figure out why he has ended up on the wrong side of a gun. Filled with intense gunfights that have you tracking multiple shootouts at once and wondering how one man can survive it, Hitman proves that Hollywood is finally catching on to what video game movies are all about.

Don't shrug off this holiday-flick if you are not a fan of the game or if your significant other is not interested. In fact, Mrs. SS said that she liked it and that she couldn't believe how well they portrayed the character identical to his digital counterpart. Olyphant not only mimics 47's bad ass attitude and unsettling comfort for extreme violence, but he also mimics the agent's stiff movement that we've all come to love from the bald and bar coded assassin.

Did that "stiffness" make the movie seem less realistic? Maybe, but who really expects to see a video game movie portrayed realistically? It's a movie based off of an assassin who enters a room chock-full of baddies and somehow leaves it without having to reload once, which is exactly what you should expect from a video game movie.

Hitman is one of those movies that makes you forget about past atrocities like Street Fighter and gives us gamers hope for the future. Now if only the Van Damme nightmares will end and the sweet bullet-ridden Hitman ones begin.

- R