Spoiler Points for Hitman (2007)

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Spoiler Points for Hitman (2007) [R] 100 minutes
WIP™ Scale: $14.00
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Spoiler Points:
• Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant) 'misses' killing the Russian President, Mikhail Belicoff (Ulrich Thomsen). Actually, he doesn't. Actually, he hits and kills a double.
• Belicoff has ordered the hit on himself apparently because he believes his survival will make him look like a stronger leader.
• The only ones who can now make trouble for him are his brother's mistress slave girl, Nika Boronina (Olga Kurylenko) and Agent 47. So, he orders the next hit on Agent 47 who then is left to figure out what's going on.
• Agent 47, however, is always 15 steps ahead of the game. He gets rid of the agents who are after him and makes a deal with another who works for the CIA. In exchange for getting rid of Udre Belicoff (Henry Ian Cusick) who's been a thorn in everyone's side as an arms and narcotics dealer, he needs to have the CIA show up at just the right time.
• As he 'falls' for Nika, and loves life himself despite his occupation and 'training', he knows the only way to preserve her life and his is to complete the original assignment and assassinate Belicoff. So, he kills two birds with one bullet.
• First, he orchestrates a meeting with Udre where he kills him, but not before being asked what one thing Udre can do to get out of this—the answer being a bullet through the head. Second, he knows that Mikhail will have to attend the funeral. So, this is where he stages the best parts of his plan. He knows that Mike Whitier (Dougray Scott), Interpol's best agent and the one who's been hunting him for 3 years, will know that this funeral will be the likely spot for Agent 47's final attempt on Belicoff's life. So, everyone converges on the church: the Russian secret police, Interpol, and Agent 47. But Agent 47 would not walk into a trap, or would he?
• He captures the head of the special ops designed to catch him, and plants him in a bathtub full of water and an electric generator set up to deliver sufficient current to melt his flesh off his bones if he doesn't call and order his men to shoot Bellicoff during the funeral. Then he leaves him in the tub with a walkie-talkie duct-taped to his arm. At precisely 3:00, the hit on Belicoff occurs, but Bellicoff escapes to a tower where Agent 47 tracks him down and waits for those who hope to kill him to use gunship helicopters to do his job on Bellicoff for him. Then he sits in the same chair where Belicoff sat and awaits his arrest by Whittier whom he knows will have jurisdiction. As he's being hauled off by Whittier's team, they are suddenly engulfed by black limos and ordered to hand over the prisoner who's suspected of terrorist activities. When they leap out to get to the bottom of this, Agent 47 flees the scene escaping. Then the CIA admits the error, but it's too late for Interpol.
• Agent 47 then goes to Whittier's home, with a dead body in tow, and hatches his true escape plan. He tells Whittier that the body is of the man he's been hunting. The gun and shell casing will match his weapon. He can wait until his kids go to school to bring the body into custody so they don't have to see this mess. All he wants is to disappear for good.
• The final scene is of Nika all excited about, perhaps just receiving info of a new vineyard in her name, and Agent 47 on the top of a building having just kill a hitman hired to kill her.