Because this slaughter scene will play out in the clichéd setting of a meat locker, Kebbell's baddie is draped in a crisp white parka and topped with a knitted cap with a jaunty pom-pom. The camera tilts up from his striped gym socks paired with sandals to the long white jean shorts he's paired with a Hawaiian shirt. This too is a cliché, but one with which he was clearly having a lot of fun. In the sequence where Gina is murdered, Toby Kebbell prances in playing a mega-douchebag villain. Which is flammable IRL but isn't in the film for reasons as simple as someone probably didn't do their research.Īll this is to say, I absolutely loathed the first twenty minutes of Bloodshot, save for one section. Further masking the realistic impacts of gunshots and crushed skulls are shadows and smoke effects created by a field of spilled flour. These same restrictions mean the editing style of such scenes is of the frantic, blurry, quick-cut variety that makes the action often incoherent.

Early fight scenes have a high body count and a symphony of gunfire, but very little bloodshed because a PG-13 rating won't allow for that. Then, she'll be swiftly fridged because behind every great man is a woman's corpse that motivates him.

Then, Ray's wife Gina (Talulah Riley) appears in virginal white to exude innocence just moments before she'll show us her panties and some side-boob to prove what a stud the hero is. The opening action scene featuring a camo-wearing and gun-strapped Diesel facing down a frothing hostage-taker seems snatched from a shoot-em-up video game's cut scene.

This section of the film is painfully clichéd. While he now has super strength and healing powers, his memories are gone. Emil Harting (Guy Pearce) - resurrects him to fight another day. Ray's career in the military ended in his death, but groundbreaking nanotech - from genius engineer Dr. Based on the popular Valiant Comics series created by Kevin VanHook, Don Perlin, and Bob Layton, Bloodshot follows former soldier Ray Garrison (Diesel) on a globe-trekking mission of revenge.

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