10 Action Movies That Looked Awesome But Sucked

Not that there’s ever been a decent action movie derived from a video game series, but there was an expectation that this reboot might be an improvement over 2007’s Hitman movie with Timothy Olyphant. There is more action, and Rupert Friend acquits himself pretty well in the lead role, but the digital effects suck all the excitement out of the action scenes.

Debuting director Aleksander Bach styles his movie to look like a glorified trailer for the game (which it basically is), but that’s led him to favour trickery over stunt work, with car chases and gun battles that never involve us because they look so artificial. When a clunky, computer generated car crashes, a computer’s idea of a human being flies through the windshield, its jerky movements making you wonder why the filmmakers didn’t just make an animated picture instead.

The script is co-written by Skip Woods, who also perpetrated A Good Day To Die Hard, and with the same studio behind him, he seems to be making the same movie all over again, right down to another indifferently-staged action climax that involves a helicopter. You won’t care about the story, root for the characters or remember much after the credits roll, so for a ‘fun’ film, this is pretty much a dud.