20 Video Game Movie and TV Moments That INSULTED Fans

Xavier Gens’ Hitman is exactly what we’d expect from a noughties big screen video game adaptation: nailing the aesthetic and action sequences, but with little character development and a nonsense plot.

Timothy Olyphant dons the barcode for a guns-n-suits assassin romp that takes him, hitman-for-hire Agent 47, deep into the knot of a political conspiracy and on the run from Interpol and the FSB. Betrayed by the Organization – the shady, clandestine group he works for – the iconic baldie must battle a small army to make it out alive and uncover the truth behind the whole affair.

The film is chock full of silly moments, but the confrontation against three other Organization agents, which morphs into a sword fight, is the dumbest. Tracked by his black-suited equals, 47 winds up part of a Mexican stand-off in a train station. The assembled agents point their guns at each other before taking 47’s cue to “die with a little dignity”. They draw Deadpool-like katanas from out the rear of their suits, cross their double-wielded blades, and then go full Kung Fu Hustle on each other.

The scene is so OTT and so far from the spirit of the games that even gamers who are on board with the film to this point will lose faith.