2012's Hitman: Absolution brought Agent 47 back into the assassination ... observing guard patterns. Codename 47 doesn't love modern Windows, but with a few simple setting changes (thanks OpenGL!) ...

Yet video game movie adaptations, like Hitman: Agent 47, remain strangely inert, still bouncing across multiplex screens every year with about as much creativity and innovation as Pong.

Hitman: Agent 47 had potential. The movie adaptation of the beloved game series about a skilled, superhuman assassin who goes by '47' (Rupert Friend) features a cool gender subversion of the ...