A female character who literally does not speak unless it's to worry her husband won't stop kicking ass long enough to have sex. Enough jingoism to qualify The United States Military as a love interest. Sundrenched, lens-flared slo-mo moving across airplane tarmacs. Interpret this as you will, but the main thought running through my head throughout the first 20-ish minutes of Bloodshot was that this film simply had to be secretly directed by Michael Bay. Now a living weapon, Ray immediately sets out to find the man who slaughtered him and his wife, Gina ( Talulah Riley), but soon discovers that the people who brought him back aren't who they seem, and the enemy he should be gunning for might not be the obvious one. Emil Hartin ( Guy Pearce), the project not only brought Ray back from the dead, but also injected his blood with nano-tech, giving him a wide range of abilities like instant healing and super-strength. soldier Ray Garrison (Diesel) is the first successful result of a modern-day Frankenstein experiment conducted by the under-the-radar organization, Rising Spirit Technologies. It's still an aggressively middle-of-the-road action movie, but the script from Jeff Wadlow ( Fantasy Island) and Eric Heisserer ( Bird Box) makes use of a genuinely clever storytelling twist that makes things feel bigger than the sum of its nano-parts. But to my D-tier superhero-loving delight, Bloodshot also comes with a heaping dose of Option B. I fully admit to assuming Option A in the case of Sony's Bloodshot starring Vin Diesel, taking into account the years-long process getting this story to screen, the studio-swapping that basically nixed the idea of a Valiant-verse, the premiere date push-back, and some initial footage that looked like it had been delivered through a time portal from 2003. Not to get too inside baseball right off the bat, but when a studio sets a review embargo within days of a film's theatrical release, there are really only two reasons why: A) They know they've got a certified clunker on their hands, or B) There's a big ol' plot twist that should be kept secret.
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