Eye Candy #221 - "Hitman"

Hitman:  Here we have a film crippled by poor casting in the largest role in the film - Timothy Olyphant (who is a GREAT character actor) as the hired killer Agent 47, who has a penchant for power ties, firearms, and not blending in with crowds (probably has something to do with the bar code tattooed on the back of his big bald head). He works for the Organization, a worldwide secretive group that trains orphans to be assassins. 47 happens to be the best at what he does, until he's set up on a hit to kill a Russian politician. Soon he finds himself on the run across various exotic locations with a young woman who has found herself wrapped up in something she doesn't understand (Olga Kurylenko, who may be the best thing about the movie). And soon Agent 47 is setting up the people who set him to get hisself a little revenge. Dougray Scott, here in a role that he actually does well in, is the Interpol agent who's tracking Agent 47 down. Sure it's slick, but it feels like a lot of half-done, contrived action films that have set pieces set in Europe (similar to "XXX"): kind of dingy, fairly nonsensical, with a lead actor who is one of the least passable action stars I've seen in recent memory. Woodchuck sez, "You're probably going to be disappointed."