Bloodshot

This resurrection of Universal Soldier for the new millennium didn’t really work. But it’s a good movie to watch while cooking Sunday lunch. Mr. Diesel does his very best and finally we can see him in a slightly different situation (other than sitting in a car), but he chose an appalling screenplay for it. The original idea isn’t bad, but the uninspired end product with the crucial twist of the movie given away in the trailer was not the best solution. Maybe next time! (04/04/2020)

I was quite enjoying the first about 45 minutes because I was amused by one pretty cunning idea, which... which, as it later turned out, remained the only proper idea of the entire film. I could imagine Bloodshot becoming something like a new Equilibrium, but it would need a better script that didn't firstly laugh at film clichés and then in fact use them, and also another (I am intentionally not saying “better") actor, and not the well-known Vin Diesel, who plays Vin Diesel again, wearing his white undershirt, and the only difference is that speeches about family were replaced with speeches about coming home. (17/11/2020)

Have you seen the trailer? You've seen everything. There's nothing extra in Bloodshot, and what little it does offer is pretty crappy. Vin Diesel tries his best, but he's playing the main character in a comic book movie with a woefully predictable story, uninteresting characters and unimaginative action scenes. It looks like a slightly overpriced pilot for some second-rate series that is pretty lacking in with, ideas, energy and basically anything that would make it worth watching. Diesel has stumbles again, but unlike, say, the similarly crappy The Last Witch Hunter, I don't even see anything with the potential to be interesting under a different director. A useless film. (12/03/2020)

I don’t really know what to say about Bloodshot. Vin Diesel is evidently trying to film something new probably to expand his usual set of scenes. And basically it is just the same as with Riddick. In this case, it is based on a comic book but in reality it is boring, has some action scenes that from time to time look good but are cut in a way that prevents you from seeing what is happening. (25/08/2020)

With each subsequent non-manic film, it surprises me how much viewers are not actually interested in Vin Diesel off the wheel. This is largely understandable because he appears in projects that don't particularly impress from the previews, and in the worst cases, they are downright irritating (XxX, The Last Witch Hunter... take your pick). This is clearly also due to the fact that film producers (or rather, studio bosses, because he himself is a producer) do not see a star and box office certainty in him (rightly so, according to many, including myself), so we can probably say goodbye forever to his dreamt and surely overpriced Hannibal. Bloodshot is ultimately a stupid film. Incredibly stupid. It capitalizes on the wave of comics (although the end result is rubbish) and the availability of computer effects. It is truly evident here that the creators went for the cheapest people in the industry. However, even though I emphasize how incredibly stupid the film is, it is absolutely unsurprising and recycles actors who traditionally play in B movies; surprisingly, the 90 minutes flew by quite quickly for me, I was not bored, and I even found it entertaining at times. Nevertheless, it was more due to the current mood rather than any sophistication in the numerous action scenes. I am only interested in the potential sequel purely in terms of the subject matter, which (not just because of the coronavirus) will probably never come to be. It probably couldn't have been any more boring and lazier to come up with a subject matter other than replicating the same scenes. PS: Produced among others by Matthew Vaughn (not noticeable) and my favorite Jeff Wadlow (if he had a greater influence on the film as a screenwriter, then I might have to admit that he is a hack too). (29/03/2020)