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This Was The Hitman Movie That Hitman Movies Should Have Been


So basically anyone who has played the Hitman games know that the plots are extremely similar.

Oddball, specially trained individual works for shady companies while using a handler.

Uses aliases and never stays in one place for too long.

Donates money to helping people (Agent 47 to the monastery, Wolff to the autism ranch)

Both have a handler with a British accent.

Both work for and kill bad guys.

Both have a hidden stash of unique and high-powered military grade weaponry.

With some tweaks to the script this would have been a perfect Hitman movie (probably removing the boring accountant stuff).

It always bothers me that the Hitman movies aren't corporate/criminal espionage thrillers like this movie. Heck the plot of this film very well would have been a mission in a Hitman game. Instead the Hitman movies are just straight-up trash. A real shame.

Also, Matt Damon or Ed Norton would have been better cast in the role than the sleepy-voiced and spazzed out Ben Affleck.

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