Genetically modified as the perfect killing machine, Agent 47 knows how to assassinate anyone, at any time anywhere. When he finds out a dangerous organization is developing new agents like him to create an army, he decides to stop them by going after the Ukrainian engineer who made him. A perilous mission that teams him up with Katia, a mysterious young woman who leads Agent 47 to surprising revelations about himself …

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There’s no doubt about it: Hitman: Agent 47 is completely awful, including just enough stupidity and bad taste to horrify even the most avid fans of trash. Based on the video game franchise, Hollywood presents the umpteenth dumb, kitschy and ridiculous action flick staffed with paper mâché characters that gets excited at the slightest hail of bullets, alternating between scenes with embarrassing dialogue and action not worthy of the name, and further ruined by style effects. Once you realize that this debut by Aleksander Bach, starring Rupert Friend from the TV series Homeland, is even worse than the one made in 2007 by Xavier Gens with Timothy Olyphant and Olga Kurylenko, it becomes clear that the Hollywood machinery is nothing short of scary. Really scary.