{"id":43501,"date":"2024-04-07T10:38:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T14:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=43501"},"modified":"2024-04-07T10:36:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T14:36:17","slug":"bloodshot-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/07\/bloodshot-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloodshot (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dave Wilson\u2019s movie feels like one of those comic book movies made in 2003 when studios made comic book movies but were embarrassed to admit it. So they\u2019d make their movies without giving us what the fans wanted hence a \u201cPunisher\u201d movie without his signature skull shirt. With \u201cBloodshot\u201d what we\u2019re getting a movie based on the somewhat obscure nineties comic, but a lot of the changes are obviously made from Sony and Vin Diesel to side step the fact he\u2019s in a comic book movie. He looks very little like Bloodshot, doesn\u2019t often don his signature red chest spot, and isn\u2019t even referred to as Bloodshot.<\/p>\n

But he\u2019s Bloodshot! Don\u2019t worry, all five people that loved the Valiant comics universe*!<\/p>\n

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Diesel plays Garrison a mercenary who is a killing machine and returns home to be with his wife. Ambushed by soldiers, Garrison is held hostage and bears witness to his wife\u2019s murder and is subsequently murdered. He inexplicably awakens in a laboratory where he learns that he\u2019s been\u2014let\u2019s say \u201crecycled\u201d to become a top secret soldier in a platoon of soldiers imbued with bionic and robot abilities. Now armed with enhanced regeneration he seeks to avenge his wife and learns about a top secret plot involving the American government.<\/p>\n

\u201cBloodshot\u201d is about as bad as can be and I blame that mainly on Diesel who becomes more and more of a square peg in a round hole with action movies the older that he gets. Diesel is one of those action stars who has a clause where he can\u2019t get beaten up, so any and all combat scenes are low stakes. Meanwhile even when he\u2019s off screen everyone else is dialed down to allow Diesel to feel like the life of the party. But even he can\u2019t save this painful attempt at a launch for movie universe. He can\u2019t even be troubled to wear make up or prosthetics for the character which, if you saw Jason David Frank\u2019s fan film, is flat out disappointing.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>He does his best to stick to his Vin Dieselisms, though, with his usual grunting dialogue, cold hard stares, and mourning the loss of someone that he failed to save. Meanwhile the cast are all there to do their work and deliver lazy performances, including Guy Pearce, a usually great actor who seems to just be doing a light impression of Gary Oldman most of the time he\u2019s on screen. The movie is built primarily to launch a new franchise for Diesel who has been seeking a new series since he returned to \u201cFast and the Furious,\u201d but it flops at every turn. Dave Wilson\u2019s flat direction paired with Jeff Wadlow\u2019s horrible script is undercut at every turn by its sheer shameless derivativeness.<\/p>\n

That said, \u201cBloodshot\u201d is still a great movie–if you\u2019ve never seen \u201cSpawn.\u201d Or \u201cCaptain American: The First Avenger.\u201d Or \u201cCaptain America: Winter Solder.\u201d Or \u201cRobocop.\u201d Or the \u201dRobocop\u201d remake. Or \u201cUniversal Soldier.\u201d Or \u201cUniversal Soldier: Regeneration.\u201d Or \u201cUpgrade.\u201d Or \u201cIron Man 3.\u201d Or 1996\u2019s \u201cSolo.\u201d<\/p>\n

You know what? I would be here all day if I listed off better movies that \u201cBloodshot\u201d rips off but can\u2019t hold a candle to.<\/p>\n

* I was just joshing. No disrespect to the Valiant universe. I love \u201cShadowman.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dave Wilson\u2019s movie feels like one of those comic book movies made in 2003 when studios made comic book movies but were embarrassed to admit it. So they\u2019d make their movies without giving us what the fans wanted hence a \u201cPunisher\u201d movie without his signature skull shirt. With \u201cBloodshot\u201d what we\u2019re getting a movie based […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,64,71,840,906,1087],"class_list":["post-43501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adaptation","tag-adventure","tag-revenge","tag-science-fiction","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43504,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43501\/revisions\/43504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}