Today in Movies - Hitman: Agent 47

Looks like the trailer for "Hitman: Agent 47" has dropped! Adapted from the video game series, "Hitman," this film is the second cinematic outing for the character of Agent 47. But if the film world, and nice looking trailers have taught us anything, it's that viewers should tread lightly. Especially with movies adapted from video games.

Check out the trailer here via the link!

http://youtu.be/HELfuiarPpo

Agent 47, is not a sequel to the Hitman film from 2007, it is a reboot. The film stars Zachary Quinto, (Star Trek 2009, American Horror Story) and Rupert Friend (Meet Me In Montenegro 2014, Homeland) in the lead roles.

The film also has most of the production team from the original Hitman film from 2007 working behind the scenes. They're saying they want to learn from their mistakes. Having seen only part of the first Hitman film before getting entirely fed up with it, it's safe to say mistakes were made. I will be going back to that film for a once over and put up a review after covering B-Movies.

This trailer may look very promising, but so did the trailers to Clash of the Titans (2010) it's sequel Wrath of the Titans (2012) and Lucy (2014). All had spectacular looking trailers that made the viewer purely intrigued by the story but fell flat upon release. Two out of these three films may have been spectacularly entertaining, but this does not negate the fact that these films were not very good.

Clearly Hitman: Agent 47 looks like it has a world of effort put behind it. The action sequences look inspired from the glimpses one can catch in the trailer. The story appears to portray Agent 47 more as a villain rather then an antihero, and that's an interesting dynamic, given the character is in the title.

What do you think of the Hitman: Agent 47 trailer? Does anything stand out to you? Do you think this will be the first American video game movie to do its source material justice?