ASIC - Hitman (2007) - Agent 47

Genre: Action-Thriller

Based on: Video Game Series

Director: Xavier Gens

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant as Agent 47

Borislav Parvanov as Young Agent 47

Dougray Scott as Mike Whittier

Robert Knepper as Yuri Marklov

Ulrich Thomsen as Mikhail Belicoff and body double

Henry Ian Cusick as Udre Belicoff

Michael Offei as Jenkins

James Faulkner as Carlton Smith

Eriq Ebouaney as Bwana Ovie

Emil Abossolo-Mbo as General Ajunwa

Lisa Jacobs as Diana Burnwood

Sabine Crossen as June

Susan White as Mia

Asen Blatechki as FSB Driver

Vladimir Kolev as HRT Guy

Desislava Bakardzhieva as News Reporter

Hitman 2007 - Agent 47

Plot

A group of young boys are taught how to use weapons, perform demolitions, engage in unarmed combat, have stamina and strength tests, and are given bar code tattoos on the backs of their shaved heads before receiving professional training to become hitmen who travel the world. Interpol agent Mike Whittier is met at gunpoint by Agent 47 when he returns home in the present. The two discuss 47's upbringing and training as a professional hitman by the Organization, a covert organization.

In the three months previously, 47 completed a hit on a Nigerian warlord named Bwana Ovie by using a captive soldier as a human bomb and force-feeding him plastic explosives. After a subsequent change of heart, Diana Burnwood, 47's Organization handler, orders him to execute his next victim, Russian President Mikhail Belicoff, in public rather than in private. After finishing his task by shooting the man in the head, Agent 47 is contacted by his superiors before he can leave Russia. When informed that the hit was unsuccessful and that Belicoff survived the attempt on his life, he is perplexed. He receives information from the Organization about a witness to the murder, and he is given the go-ahead to find and kill her. 47 doesn't shoot her when he finds she has never seen him before; instead, he narrowly escapes another agent's attempt to kill him and knows he is being set up.

His employers notify the FSB of his whereabouts and identification, but Diana contacts 47 in the shadows to inform him that Belicoff had personally ordered the hit. After making his way out of his hotel, 47 comes upon Nika, Belicoff's mistress and the alleged eyewitness to his hit. When he questions her, he learns that Belicoff had a doppelganger who had ordered the hit on the actual Belicoff so that he could succeed him as the leader of Russia. 47 was instructed by the Organization to kill Nika to gain influence with the incoming government.

When Nika and 47 try to flee Russia by train, they are pursued by Organization agents, who 47 kills after Traveling to Istanbul with Nika, 47 kidnaps Price, pretends to be him to meet Udre at a bar, and then kills him, making Belicoff's duplicate attend Udre's public burial. While 47, dressed as a soldier, interacts with the imposter's bodyguards and murders him, Marklov is forced to send his own operatives to interrupt the funeral and create a distraction. Whittier then arrives with support from Interpol to arrest 47. Smith keeps his promise and sends his agents to stop the convoy that is taking 47 to the airport, letting the hitman escape.

47 urges Whittier to follow through with his plan to inform the police that he has killed (a fictitious) Agent when they arrive at Whittier's house subduing them in hand-to-hand combat. Whittier then tries to detain 47 alone himself but is quickly defeated. Nika convinces 47 to release Whittier, and FSB officer Yuri Markov, who is in charge of the manhunt, orders Whittier to leave Russia for meddling. 47 offers CIA agent Carlton Smith a deal: in exchange for a favor, 47 will assassinate Udre Belicoff, Mikhail's brother and a wealthy arms dealer and human trafficker. Smith reveals to 47 that Udre and German gunrunner Price had been preparing something.

My Opinion of the Film

I have seen this movie at least 30 times by now, I almost know every dialogue of it but it never gets old for me. The content of the movie as well as the acting, direction, and plot is awesome. I was moved at two stages of the film. First where the agents are selected at their childhood; decapitated and trained to be fearless assassins and second when the female lead role (Nika) tells her story to the agent that she is not the girlfriend of Belicoff instead she gets paid 300 USD for her services to him. The way Agent 47 takes care of her and protects her throughout is warming. The scene of Church where he kills Belicoff is worth watching. I strongly recommend watching this movie.

Regards,

MFBashir