Bloodshot: A Cliche Movie From A Different Perspective

Bloodshot is based on the valiant comics character of the same name. It stars Vin Diesel as Ray Garrison, a dead soldier augmented with nanotechnology. Now this sounds like a familiar story, and it is, but it shows the story from a different perspective for half of the movie and that’s refreshing.

The plot of Bloodshot is not new. The soldier gets hurt and rebuilt by a mysterious group and later finds out it was the group that hurt and betrayed him to begin with. Guy Pearce plays the head of RST,  the tech group that rebuilt Garrison. Pierce is always good as the villain. What Bloodshot does that is clever show the events leading up to Garrison getting hurt and rebuilt like normal. Then when his mind is erased and it happens again they show the events from RST’s point of view.

Instead of focusing only on Vin Diesel, the movie shows the ins and outs of RST and what it takes to create the simulations and other ways of fooling Garrison. Diesel is used as a driving force to move the story along. If the movie only focused on Diesel then it would be a stale, rehashed revenge action movie. Even though not all the people at RST are bad, you see what they go through on a daily basis. Lamorne Morris plays a former RST programmer who is being targeted and he has a lot of good comic relief in the movie.

While the overall story of Bloodshot isn’t anything new, the audience gets to see a different perspective on things. There are some good action scenes and Vin Diesel is Vin Diesel. Check this one out if you get a chance, maybe as a rental. 🍔🍔