HITMAN AGENT 47

2015 | DIR: ALEKSANDER BACH | REVIEW BY SHAUN CRAWFORD.

After making a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance on the big screen, the second installment of the video game adaptation franchise arrives on dvd, where, let's be honest, it should have been relegated to in the first place.

British actor Rupert Friend takes over from yank Timothy Olyphant as the titular Agent 47, a shady, ruthless assassin who gets recruited by bright-eyed Katia (an enthusiastic Hannah Ware) to help her piece together the mysteries of her past.

For some reason the death-dealing assassin agrees to lend a hand...? Zachary Quinto takes a break from intergalactic space exploration to come shoot some guns and delivers the clunky, expository dialogue as best he can and there's a mildly entertaining sequence involving a car that gets anchored to a street corner by grappling hooks but its not enough to save a film that's all but DOA. To say it's better than Xavier Gens previous, unrelated film, is damning it with faint praise.

Agent 47 is a mess of loud guns, improbable explosions and murky motivations that makes about as much sense as a thing that doesn't make sense on 'No Sense Day'. It may satisfy on a drunk Friday night but little else.