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Written by: Jeff Wadlow and Eric Heisserer (screenplay), Jeff Wadlow (story), Kevin VanHook and Don Perlin and Bob Layton (Valiant comic book)
Directed by: Dave Wilson
Starring: Vin Diesel, Eiza González, Sam Heughan, Toby Kebbell, Guy Pearce
Rated: PG-13
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Plot
Ray Garrison, a slain soldier, is re-animated with superpowers.
Verdict
What a bland movie. The plot is a mashup of tropes and action scenes. The most (only) interesting scene of the movie is set in a cloud of flour which is flammable and the movie ignores that. This is nearly two hours of little more than Vin Diesel punching things while getting shot. The movie hopes nanobots are enough to cover all the inconsistencies. This is a shell of a movie.
Skip it.
Review
The first scene is the end of a standard hostage situation that exists just to establish Vin Diesel is playing a soldier. The movie presents no reason to care about this scene. A few scenes later, people are after Diesel but we're given no reason as to why. This movie hasn't established anything. We get a bunch of action scenes with no purpose. The opening culminates in Diesel's captor dancing to Psycho Killer. Up to this point this movie is non-coherent. Thankfully, the movie does explain this.
The plot is paper thin. Diesel plays Bloodshot, a biological weapon, the showpiece of a lab that creates prosthetics. The doctor tells him they reanimated him, but it seems, and I hoped, there was more to this.
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| Eiza González, Vin Diesel play KT and Bloodshot |
Diesel isn't supposed to remember, but his memories return quickly. He remembers his captor and is out for revenge. Diesel's body repairs itself so bullets aren't a big deal. He also has wi-fi and can tap into Google Maps. I'm unclear on how he figured out to do any of this stuff. The movie hand waves all of this with the simple explanation of nanobots.
This movie tries hard, but this concept can't be taken seriously. The tunnel scene with a cloud of flour looks cool, but flour is flammable. It's a great scene other than that, and it culminates in half of Diesel's face getting shotgunned off and regenerating.
At this point I guessed what Diesel's character was really about. It's such an elaborate ruse for what is basically an assassin. The doctor's other patients would probably do the same thing without an overly complicated backstory. The doctor has other patients he's modified that are happy to do his bidding.
This movie is pointless. I don't know why it even attempts a story. If anything this should focus on augmented soldiers in over the top fights. If you Youtube the flour fight and the final fight, that's all you need from this movie, maybe more than you need.
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