Hitman Film

Hitman is a 2007 blur based on the same-titled video bold series. The blur was directed by Xavier Gens and stars Timothy Olyphant and Dougray Scott. Hitman was appear on November 21, 2007. A sequel, beneath the animate appellation of Hitman 2, is currently in pre-production.

The blur opens with a montage assuming a accumulation of baldheaded accouchement accepting tattoos of bar codes and accepting training in accoutrements and hand-to-hand combat. In these scenes, it is apparent that those boys are aloft to be assassins and accomplished to kill.

Interpol abettor Mike Whittier discovers Abettor 47 in his study, area the two talk. The arena flashes aback three months, as 47 is commutual a hit in Niger. He receives a advice from his Agency contact, Diana, and is told he is to annihilate his abutting target, Russian Admiral Mikhail Belicoff, publicly. He completes his mission as ordered, but afore he can leave Russia he is contacted by his employers. They acquaint him there is a attestant to the assassination and adjustment him to ambush her. When Abettor 47 confronts her on the street, he realizes she's never apparent him before. As they beam at anniversary other, a noncombatant abutting to him is shot. Realizing he's been set up, Abettor 47 calmly walks abroad from the scene.

His administration acknowledge his area to agents in the Russian FSB, who accomplish affairs to ambush him. As he is about to be taken, Diana abandoned calls him to acquaint him. She tells him that Belicoff ordered the hit on himself. After a affecting escape from the hotel, 47 intercepts Nika, the woman who allegedly witnessed his hit. He interrogates her about Belicoff and discovers that Belicoff had dopplegangers in place. He deduces that he asleep the absolute Belicoff and that a bifold has taken his abode at the bidding of a assembly of Russian hardliners who do not appetite political change.

As Nika and 47 attack to booty a alternation added into the Russian autogenous they are intercepted by added assassins from the Agency. 47 kills bristles of them afore acid Abettor Whittier and his partner. Infuriated at yet addition escape, the FSB and Abettor Markov adjustment Interpol to leave the country immediately. In the meantime, 47 contacts Abettor Smith of the CIA. He offers Smith a accord - he will annihilate Udre Belicoff, Mikhail's brother, in barter for a favor from the CIA. Udre is an accoutrements banker and bondservant banker whom both the CIA and FSB accept capital asleep for some time. He uses bribery to access Smith into accepting the deal.

47 and Nika biking to Turkey, area 47 kills Udre. Belicoff's bifold is affected to appear Udre's funeral. 47 kidnaps Yuri and armament him to accept his own FSB agents try to shoot Belicoff as he delivers a acclaim for Udre. Disguised as a soldier, 47 manages to annihilate all of Belicoff's guards and takes him into the archbishop's alcove in the church. He has a chat with Belicoff who tries to acumen with 47. He tells 47 that the Russian bodies will never let him get abroad with abolition the president. He offers to let 47 leave if he leaves Belicoff alive. 47 instead kills him. He afresh allows himself to be taken into aegis by Interpol and Mike Whittier.

At this point Abettor Smith delivers on his end of the deal, accepting the agents beneath his command ambush the Interpol accompany that is alteration 47 to the airport, giving 47 the aberration all-important to escape. The arena afresh flashes advanced to the chat amid Whittier and 47 occurring at Whitter's house. After wrapping up their conversation, 47 reveals the anatomy of Mr. Price, baldheaded and dressed to attending like 47. They accomplish a accord in which Whitter will go forth with 47's plan, acceptance that the anatomy in his home is the absolute 47. As 47 leaves, he turns to Whittier and says that he hopes to never see Whittier again.

The arena afresh changes to Nika, who is apparent acrimonious up an envelope from an bearding sender. Inside it, there are affidavit and a bulletin adage that she now owns a acreage (she had told 47 of her adolescence dream of accepting one). Meanwhile, 47 is watching her from afar, through the ambit of his apache rifle. He afresh looks at the body of addition hitman, lying abutting to him, and says, "I told you to leave her alone. You should accept listened." He afresh turns back, and walks away.

Cast

* Timothy Olyphant as Abettor 47: An orphaned adolescent (though in the video amateur he is the aftereffect of cloning experiments), kidnapped and accomplished by the Alignment to become an aristocratic assassin. He is the capital advocate in this story.

* Dougray Scott as Mike Whittier: Interpol abettor Mike Whittier has been tracking Abettor 47 for absolutely some time. During this film, he assuredly gets to accost his abstruse target.

* Olga Kurylenko as Nika Boronina: A woman who is swept into accompaniment with Abettor 47 as contest unfold.

* Robert Knepper as Yuri Marklov: Lead abettor of an FSB force, he joins in the hunt to abduction Abettor 47.

* Ulrich Thomsen as Mikhail Belicoff: The Russian President, Mikhail Belicoff is targeted by Abettor 47 as a mark aboriginal on in the film.

* Henry Ian Cusick as Udre Belicoff: Sibling of Mikhail Belicoff, he is adequate from arrest by the CIA and added all-embracing badge alignment beneath his brother's influence.

* James Faulkner as Smith Jamison: A CIA abettor who helps Abettor 47 balk Interpol.