High expectation was had for the film. Many where worried that problems would arise from the takeover by editor Nicolas De Toth from Xavier Gens by the power of Fox. Never heard of De Toth, he's famous for editing Live Free or Die Hard down to a PG-13 Rating. Despite the fact that 'Hit-man' is has an official hard R rating, This quarrel is not with the lack of violent content, but the incredibly poor editing, which intern, spoils that fantastic cinematography. Another issue with the film comes at the end involving Scott and a certain side character that certainly could have been trimmed out of the film. Out of Nowhere Scott's lines appear obviously dubbed, for what reason it is unknown, as well as the other, a rather pointless character, whose lines ensue laughter at the strikingly obvious poor dubbing. Don't get me started on the story, the continuity and geographical issues, the awful Russian Accents. Not Even a hugely entertaining performance by Timothy Olyphant can save that fact that this cut of the film is flawed, and has obviously been tampered with by Fox. Now one can be curious to see the Directors cut, It felt like a good hour of material was missing, whats worrying is that material probably doesn't exist. time will tell whether it was the fault of Genns that the film was not cognitive. For some reason the editing in the action sequences was more than adequate, like De Toth has simply cut parts of the original cut with white flashes. Despite, Olyphant, Scott and some great action, Hit-man really is the best straight to video flick ever brought to the big screen.
Recommendation: Set your expectations low, quite low, in fact.
Recommendation: Set your expectations low, quite low, in fact.