have not been good, but that's not necessarily Hitman's fault. They're bog-standard action flicks, generic and uninteresting in all aspects except the videogame connection.
The success of the Hitman reboot trilogy has demonstrated that the real secret is to embrace the essentially absurdity of a large, scowling bald man with a barcode tattooed on his head moving like an invisible predator through large crowds and elite security forces. I mean, come on. That's something that Gunn does well: Mixing action, and even pathos, with the acknowledgement that all of this is kind of silly, but that's alright because it's a lot of fun, too. We were probably lucky to get Guardians of the Galaxy instead of a longshot flier on Agent 47, but I can't help but hope that with all these hits now under his belt, Gunn will take another run at a Hitman film someday.
You mean Hitman dodged a bullet.