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“Hitman: Agent 47” is aggressively awful, the kind of film that rubs its lackadaisical screenwriting, dull filmmaking and boring characters in your face, almost daring you to ask the theater operator for your money back. It is a film that feels made out of contractual obligation instead of artistic venture, or even a remote desire to entertain. Other than a few slow-motion action sequences, it does nothing to either distinguish itself from the action movie crowd or even to appeal to fans of the game series on which it is SO loosely based as to really insult its core audience. Here’s where you should know that I’ve played most of the “Hitman” games. I’m not convinced anyone involved in the production of “Hitman: Agent 47” can say the same.
Though there are many actors who fall for architecture once they make it big, snatching up multimillion-dollar properties the way others buy groceries, there are few who can say they’ve ever formally studied the trade. British-born actress Hannah Ware, however, had the chops for design long before she found herself moving into a quintessential post-and-beam in the Hollywood Hills.
“I have a degree in art history and I became really interested in the modern architecture component,” Hannah says. “I thought marrying the social component of architecture and the design aspect would be the perfect job for me. This was all theoretical. I didn’t take into account that I have very bad spatial awareness and, practically speaking, my mind leaves a lot to be desired.”
WHAT IT S ABOUT:
The One is a matchmaking service like no other. Using the
latest DNA research, a group of DNA researchers led by Rebecca Webb (Hannah
Ware) have created an algorithm that can pair a person up with the one person
on Earth for whom they re most ideally suited – a biological soul mate, in
other words. What does this mean, though, for love in this new world, and what
terrible secret lies behind the creation of this scientific miracle?
WHAT WE THOUGHT:
I think I owe
Soulmates on Amazon Prime a big apology. Not
because it ripped off the central premise of John Marrs novel,
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