Vin Diesel

Eiza González

Sam Heughan

Toby Kebbell

Talulah Riley

Lamorne Morris

Guy Pearce

Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson

Alex Hernandez

Siddharth Dhananjay

Tamer Burjaq

Clyde Berning

David Dukas

Tyrel Meyer

Alex Anlos

Maarten Römer

Charlie Bouguenon

Nic Rasenti

Ryan Michael Sin

Michael Kirch

Ryan Kruger

Austin Rose

Gary Naidoo

Hilton Sun

Tsogt Baysgalan

Donovan Goliath

Freyja Stern

Keeno Lee Hector

Jeremy Jess Boado

Shelani Van Niekerk

Jason Goliath

Patrick Kerton

Emmanuel Manzanares

David Davadoss

Frans Steyn

Dermot Brogan

Jeremy Marinas

Reon Van Der Watt

Robert Fischer

Deon Du Preez

Aqeel Isaacs

Nathan Barris

George Loxton

Nicholas McLachlan

Alex-Ann Keppie

Justin Yu

Lawrence Kutala

Minky Ndlovu

Alexander Ortscheit

Tony Carbajal

Johann Spilhaus

Jimmy E. Jensen

Andrew Little

Shayne Fuller

Billi Bruins

Ellette Craddock

Lance Elliot

Warren Germishuys

Stephen Early

Tristan Makka

Ian Williamson

Nigel Tompkins

Ludwe Balintulo

Valerie Du Preez

Ashley Williams

Isaura Alfonso

Maccoh Pingiriasi

David Krudis

Meike Chinnery

Phillip Mhlabane

Paul Chunkanson

Owen Macrae

Coy Aune

Maryke Nel

Justin Paterson

Viwe Jack-Gcilishe

Zahir Karriem

Nico Louw

Margaret Muggleston

Aphiwe Tshele

Shaun Verth

Tshepo Nthako

Simon Rankin

Dudley Fillies

Leo Du Plessis

Storm Leonard Williamson

Regan Mitchell

Marius Swart

Wikus van der Merwe

Jean Roux

Jos Joubert

J.P. van der Merwe

Howard London

Lars Cox

Andre Weavind

Clive Pollick

Graham Bartholomew

Daniel Saxlid

Clinton Fish

Antoine F. Kock

Paul Pirola

Kim A. Winther

Brendan Hill

Robert Chen

Curt Schulkey

Darrell Hall

Carmen Lötz

Ryan Squires

Jamie Famularo

Adrian Medhurst

Brendan Croxon

Dezi Rorich

Esther Sokolow

Emily Bohbrink

Daniel Pinder

Larry Rench

Jacques Van Rooyen

Steve M. Ngo

Ryan Juggler

Penka Kouneva

Darren Christian

Robert Troy

Russell Farmarco

Nick Glennie-Smith

Brad Sokol

Troy Robinson

Grace Hendley

Chris Harvey

Christiana Serra

Irma van Heerden

Melissa Moritz

Christa Schoeman

Jaco Snyman

Paul N.J. Ottosson

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Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots

In one of the most mediocre movies so far this year, “Bloodshot” squanders every last positive thing it has going for it. 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. 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. When his memories begin to contradict what’s reality and what’s fiction, Ray starts to suspect lead scientist Dr. Harting (Guy Pearce) may have sinister intentions — and he does everything in his superhuman power to stop him.

The film lacks enough material for a feature length film, and it feels like the story has been stretched out from the get-go. The plot is far-fetched but interesting, yet the best elements are dismissed in a rushed fashion. The film could’ve gone one of two ways, and it chooses the path of greatest disappointment, which leaves it in this weird limbo. It’s not quite smart enough and not quite dumb enough to work. 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. Yeah, it’s that kind of bad.

Even the action scenes fall victim to rapid-fire editing that is intended to disguise the bloodless PG-13 action flick. 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. 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.

Diesel is not a great actor, but that’s never been a job requirement to bring the charismatic, cinematic muscle to the big screen. He’s a perfectly acceptable action star, but here he turns in a laughably bad performance. His poor acting hogs the spotlight, especially when he shares scenes opposite the talented Pearce.

This movie is absolute junk that will die a quick death at the box office. Please, audiences: do your part to put “Bloodshot” out of its misery.

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First of all, no. I've never read the comic book, so I didn't know a single thing about the superhero Bloodshot going in. What I did know was that Jeff Wadlow was in command of the screenplay, and we all know how extremely horrible his latest movies are (Truth or Dare, Fantasy Island). Add Vin Diesel as the protagonist and a first-time director (David S. F. Wilson), it's impossible to have high expectations for such a film, no matter how good the source material is. Maybe it could surprise me and end up being a reasonably decent flick...

It didn't. Bloodshot is even worse than I expected. I genuinely thought that the action would be the movie's savior. I didn't watch any trailers, as usual, but I did see an image here and there of that red smoke, as well as a couple of glances at the regenerating CGI. Honestly, it's the most disappointing aspect of the whole film. Simply because it's the only thing I was expecting to be decent, at least. The "final battle" has some of the worst CGI of the century, and it goes on for way too long. There's an abundance of shaky-cam, the editing is truly awful at times, a lot of action sequences are barely understandable, and even the slow-motion is overused.

However, the reason why the movie ultimately fails is, once again, due to Wadlow's screenplay (which he co-wrote with Eric Heisserer, but Wadlow is the main one). As always, his narrative is a total mess. Confusing, lacks creativity, raises tons of logical questions, and the real past of Ray Garrison is empty of any explanation. The ending is not only predictable and formulaic, but it also generates even more questions, leaving the viewer frustrated with so many unanswered plot points. David Leitch and Chad Stahelski (both have Deadpool and John Wick in their filmography) left the project right after being hired as the directors... I wonder why?!

The first minutes are probably the best of the entire runtime. I mean, excluding a not-sexy-at-all scene featuring Vin Diesel and Talulah Riley (Gina Garrison). That was cringe-worthy. Nevertheless, the story's concept is really captivating, to say the least (or the comic book wouldn't have its remarkable success). It's one of those action flicks that could easily turn into a successful franchise if the people involved in the project are more talented. With this, I transition to another of my main issues: Vin Diesel.

Very rarely, I negatively criticize an actor's performance. I admit that I'm easily pleased by any cast. If you ask me "what's an actor/actress you don't like?", I would probably be stuck for an answer. Diesel's display is so emotionless that even someone like me can be affected by it. Besides being a rock throughout the whole film, Diesel has this weird habit of TALKING VERY LOUD AND CLEAR, only to instantly lower his volume so much that he's almost whispering. He does this consecutively and repeatedly in almost every dialogue.

There's no care for developing a single character, not even the protagonist. Everyone is just a stereotype of some secondary action character: the funny IT guy, the hot girl who develops feelings for the hero, the male teammate who gets jealous that his alpha territory gets invaded, and the "motivation-less bad guy who's made look like a good guy in the beginning, but we all know who he truly is"... Literally, the two most talented actors (Toby Kebbell and Talulah Riley) are the ones with the least amount of screentime.

In the end, Bloodshot is even worse than I expected. The messy, formulaic, and logically questionable screenplay by Jeff Wadlow and Eric Heisserer is the worst aspect of the movie, but the action is undoubtedly the most disappointing one. The "final fight" is one of the worst CGI sequences of the century, and the action throughout the runtime is filled with an uncontrollable shaky-cam, an excess of slow-motion, and some poor editing, making most of these scenes incredibly hard to follow. Vin Diesel delivers as much emotion as a rock, and while the rest of the cast is fine, the characters follow every single stereotype ever written for an action flick. It also doesn't help to put a first-time director in charge of the whole thing, but David S. F. Wilson is far from being the one to blame. Occasionally good action moments and a great concept just barely keep the film breathing. It's one of the worst movies of the year.

Rating: D

Gimly

I really disliked the ending, but the first fight scene also was some of that straight-up injectable #TheAesthetic shit. Those two kind of cancel each other out, and the rest of the movie I was pretty middle of the road on, so I guess the whole thing averaged out to 2.5 outta 5. Maybe it would have been a better experience on the big screen, but we aren't allowed to do that anymore, so, sorry Bloodshot but, you're stuck with a moderately-favourable "meh". 

_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._

Kamurai

Good watch, probably won't watch again, but can recommend.

I had to watch this twice just to make sure I followed it correctly.  I was pretty tired the first time, and there is a lot of alternating between whispering / hushed tones and loud gunfire.

This movie does a lot of good visual action and effects, some stuff I don't think I've ever seen on screen before, it's well cast and the production value is through the roof, but I can't say that it's all that good a story.

It's definitely an interesting story, but the movie seeming radically torn between being a promotion of technological power and fear mongering, and the fear mongering bit always irks me because it gets in the way of real progress because someone want to tell a story one way versus another.

The majority of the movie you can see in other movies like any of the movies with Wolverine, "Extraction" (2020), but there are some special bits that make it stand out.  I just don't feel like I care about the action that is happening.  When you see someone explode a watermelon, yeah it's cool, but why are you doing it, why are you taking 2 hours to do it?

This is a good one-shot, just put it in the queue for when you want to see an action flick.

Bloodshot is an unexpectedly intelligent and patient sci-fi film. It spends its entire first half persuading us that it's just another dumb action movie, and right when we're convinced that that's exactly what it is, it pulls the rug out from under us and reveals that it was all just a ruse before establishing its true premise, and it does this with such skill that we can't stay mad at it for having fooled us so thoroughly. It's like one of those Russian dolls, only instead of having another, smaller doll inside, it has is a much more complex and satisfying movie.

All we see up to the halfway point is utterly generic, and Bloodshot knows it (“You've already copied every movie cliché there is. I think “Psycho Killer and a lunatic dancing in a slaughterhouse is enough”). Vin Diesel's character is a Frankenstein monster made from parts of Neo, Robocop, the Universal Soldier, Wolverine, and the T-1000.

After conveniently listening, just once, to a trigger song, he regains his lost memory – and not in bits and pieces; like Celine Dion, it's all coming back to him now. Without even a training montage in between, Diesel employs his many new skills so expertly that he exacts revenge on his and his wife's killers with over an hour left to go.

What Bloodshot does is take the expression 'a pig in a poke' and turn it 180 degrees. Director David S.F. Wilson and screenwriters Jeff Wadlow and Eric Heisserer aren't really copying action movie clichés but playing with them – subverting them for their own benefit, and the audience's as well. I was so pleasantly surprised that I'm willing to look at the silver lining on a couple of things.

1) the hero is an indestructible, unstoppable one-man army, killing machine – i.e., same old, same old except that Diesel, unlike many contemporary action heroes, has an actual personality and can be introspective. 2) a sequence towards the end, where the protagonist fights a couple of baddies, deliberately looks like a video game cutscene, but it's still better than watching someone else play a video game. And 3) there are the dreaded comic sidekick and romantic subplot, but the former is tolerable, and the latter is subtle and unintrusive.

All things considered, Bloodshot's biggest flaw is that it's supposed to be the first installment in a series of movies set in the Valiant Comics shared cinematic universe (oddly, though it's based on the character Bloodshot, that name is never uttered in the film; I imagine they're leaving it for the inevitable sequel, as well as the merely hinted at romance between the male and female leads). The first movie in a franchise is almost always the best of the bunch, but Bloodshot is good on its own.

Andre Gonzales

I thought this would have been better then what it was. He gets murdered and they bring him back to life as a super soldier. I'm sure part 2 will be better.

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