10 Biggest Video Game Movie Flops

10. Hitman: Agent 47

Budget: $35 million

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US Box Office: $22,467,450

Hitman: Agent 47 is a reboot of Xavier Gens’s Hitman, the 2007 movie that starred Timothy Olyphant as a bald gun-for-hire on the run from the Russian military. It was based on a video game series developed by IO Interactive, so you had to lower your expectations in order to have a good time.

Clearly uninterested in making a better movie, 20th Century Fox brought in Skip Woods, who also wrote A Good Day To Die Hard, to work on the script. They must’ve told him to target the comic book fans, too, because our genetically engineered hero (played by Homeland’s Rupert Friend) moves just like a superhero, taking out his adversaries with bombs, helicopters and some astonishingly athletic gunplay and….well, let’s not get bogged down in plot.

What The Critics said: “Bears nothing but a passing resemblance to the game that inspired it, but that shouldn’t surprise anyone as it’s all just a cash grab anyway.” (Austin Chronicle)

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