Hitman (2007)
Directed by Xavier Gens
A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's double-crossed, the hunter becomes the prey as 47 finds himself in a life-or-death game of international intrigue.
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If you want to see what Agent 47 might have seemed like without the obligatory video game requirements, I urge you to rent Jean-Pierre Melville's " Le Samourai " (1967), which is about a lone-wolf assassin in Paris ( Alain Delon ).
French director Xavier Gens' second feature is better than anything in the genre directed by Paul WS Anderson (Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil) or Uwe Boll (BloodRayne), but topping that pair isn't much of a challenge.
But since it was that engrossing, who would have ever thought it’d be the cinematic equivalent to wooden planks reenacting The Bourne Identity, which in it of itself is a film this one desperately tries to imitate (even down to the similar sounding score).
The baddies even fall for the old pistol-hidden-in-the-toilet gag, marking them as the world's only gangsters not to have seen “The Godfather."