Bloodshot was a
movie I was looking forward to seeing. I was hoping it would offer a new path
away from the Marvel and D.C.-dominated universe, maybe bringing a third player
into the mix. But don’t let the studio fool us into thinking the current
coronavirus is the reason this movie tanked. The movie tanked at the box office
because it was just not good. If you try to compare it to anything done by D.C.
and Marvel in their cinematic universes lately, it doesn’t even hold a candle
to any of them.
The character
created was too much for the story this movie placed him in, and the action
scenes were boring. The whole incident, when played out in full, was a total
waste of time.
The writers
tried to start from the comic book’s beginning and give us a backstory for Bloodshot,
setting up the character for more movies. The story they came up with was too
small and weak to carry the character. Meaning, the story didn’t make his
existence meaningful enough to want to see another movie about him.
As for the
supporting cast, I wished they all got a bullet so I didn’t have to see them
too often. Vin Diesel, on the other hand, was not bad as the lead.
In a nutshell, Bloodshot
is about a U.S. Marine named Ray (Vin Diesel) who was killed, along with his
wife. He’s brought back to life by a company called Rising Spirit Tech, which
specializes in developing cybernetic enhancements for disabled soldiers. Ray’s
body was donated for the experiment to bring him back from the dead, which was
achieved using some special nanite technology that also made Ray indestructible
and very strong. After some flashbacks, Ray remembers who killed him and his
wife and seeks out revenge. That’s where the movie went bizarre.
Here’s a
character who is just seeing life for the first time and is told about the
nanotech in his body. All of a sudden, without any information about his
abilities, he’s able to do magical things. He discovers he can download how to
fly a plane and then flies it—he does all this by hacking into some directory
from his head. He can track a person by pinging phones, all through the
nanobots in his head. Again, remember, he does all this without being told how
or that he could.
He was able to
hack networks and databases to find out who is protecting whom, linking things
together to discover locations. I was starting to wonder if I fell asleep and
missed something that must have happened in the boring intro to this movie.
Without giving
too much away, there’s more to Ray’s revenge mission than he knows, and very
early in the movie, we discover this.
Bloodshot is one
movie I won’t be seeing again, and I beg anyone who hasn’t to not bother.
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