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.
