“The Hanging Sun” (** out of four) was a gloomy adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s novel set in Italy about a reluctant hitman (Alessandro Borghi) who is on the run from his former employer (Peter Mullan) and trying to move on from his past as he falls in love with a new woman (Jessica Brown Findlay) but is confronted by a series of emotional incidents that test his commitment to starting over as he finds his own dark and brutal instincts continue to rise to the surface. Beautiful and moody cinematography from Jessica Bruel makes this worth watching for at least a little while but story is aimless and never develops much momentum. Even still, this won praise and some awards at the Venice International Film Festival.