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Genre :

Action, Thriller

Release Date :

November 21, 2007

MPAA Rating :

Director :

Xavier Gens

Starring :

Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper, Ulrich Thomsen, Michael Offei

REVIEWS RATE: Critics Readers [Rate It]

“..Xavier Gens' Hitman plays like a music video without the music..”

by Nick Schager [Slant Magazine]

“..this action-thriller is pretty ludicrous..”

by Jeff Vice [Deseret Morning News]

“..Sluggish, humorless and pointlessly graphic..”

by Daniel Eagan [Film Journal International]

“..It's enough to make you appreciate the gratuitous over-stylization of a film like "Shoot 'Em Up"..”

by Bob Strauss [LA Daily News]

“..it hasn't taken advantage of what the games have to offer..”

by David Mercier [FilmJudge]

“..exploits every action-flick cliche imaginable and still manages to be dull..”

by Manohla Dargis [NY Times]

“..a Bourne knock-off, and not a very good one at that..”

by Roger Moore [Orlando Sentinel]

Review rate : C-
Reviewed by William Arnold [Seattle Post Intelligencer]

Reviewed by Jack Mathews [NY Daily News]

Reviewed by John Anderson [Newsday]

Reviewed by Rick Groen [Globe and Mail]

Reviewed by Susan Walker [Toronto Star]

Reviewed by Bill Gibron [Filmcritic.com]

Reviewed by Ty Burr [Boston Globe]

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