He’s a perfectly acceptable action star, but here he turns in a laughably bad performance. Even worse, there are no consequences because Ray can’t be hurt or killed, and the special effects look like they were created in a couple of hours by a pre-teen boy on the family room laptop.ĭiesel is not a great actor, but that’s never been a job requirement to bring the charismatic, cinematic muscle to the big screen. There’s an almost-satisfying extended fight sequence involving elevators and a skyscraper, but it comes late in the film when most audiences will likely have already lost interest. Yeah, it’s that kind of bad.Įven the action scenes fall victim to rapid-fire editing that is intended to disguise the bloodless PG-13 action flick. Like when director Dave Wilson gets the sense that things are lagging, he inserts a not-so-subtle explosion or dick joke to keep things moving along. It’s not quite smart enough and not quite dumb enough to work. The film could’ve gone one of two ways, and it chooses the path of greatest disappointment, which leaves it in this weird limbo.
The plot is far-fetched but interesting, yet the best elements are dismissed in a rushed fashion. The film lacks enough material for a feature length film, and it feels like the story has been stretched out from the get-go. Harting (Guy Pearce) may have sinister intentions - and he does everything in his superhuman power to stop him. When his memories begin to contradict what’s reality and what’s fiction, Ray starts to suspect lead scientist Dr. Ray has an army of nanotechnology in his veins, making him an outrageously strong, unstoppable force who has the ability to instantly heal any injuries he sustains in combat. Based on the bestselling sci-fi comic book, the film tells the story of recently killed soldier Ray Garrison (Vin Diesel) who is brought back to life as a super-assassin. In one of the most mediocre movies so far this year, “Bloodshot” squanders every last positive thing it has going for it. Reviewed by screenzealots 2 / 10 Reviewed on March 27, 2020, Fri at 01:48 AM But when his memories flood back and he remembers the man that killed both him and his wife, he breaks out of the facility to get revenge, only to discover that there's more to the conspiracy than he thought.
As Ray first trains with fellow super-soldiers, he cannot recall anything from his former life. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine-'Bloodshot'. After he and his wife are murdered, marine Ray Garrison is resurrected by a team of scientists.
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