Hitman is an action thriller based on the game of the same name. The film opens with a montage showing a group of bald children receiving tattoos of bar codes and being instructed to use of firearms & martial arts. It then cuts to a scene of two children trying to escape the compound and subsequently being gunned down; this shows the danger the children are in. After this the action cuts to a scene of a car driving up to a house we are told is in London, it is raining and dark which signify this could be a bad character or something of this nature is about to happen. As the man enters his study in his house he turns the lights on to see a man sitting at his desk; the man is wearing a smart suit which signifies his power, he also has a bar code tattooed on the back of his head which is shown to signify how dangerous he is. The man asks him to sit down so they can talk, they have a brief conversation and then the action flashes back to Niger 3 months earlier.
In Niger the man was ordered to kill a target which he does successfully, he then receives a message that says he has to eliminate the Russian president Mikhail Belicoff, publicly. Flashing forward, the scene is now in Moscow where this man assassinates the Russian president and attempts to escape. When he is in the train station preparing to leave he is informed that there was a witness, Nika Boroninawhom that he has to take care of. Confronting her on the street he realises that she has never seen him before and decides not to kill her, as he is leaving an assassination attempt on him fails and he and the girl escape. This is a fast paced, tense action thriller which has you on the edge of your seat throughout.
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