Vin Diesel doesn’t do funny, though in Bloodshot he occasionally steps aside to make room for the comic relief - an allegedly English computer nerd called Wilfred Wigans. The poster for Bloodshot looked almost identical to the one for last week’s Kiwi thriller Guns Akimbo.īut Guns had the saving grace of being funny.
There was Source Code and the Arnie movie Total Recall.įor me, the memory was rather fresher. There was Edge of Tomorrow, for instance – nicknamed “Groundhog D Day”. No, not exactly déjà vu, just movies that use a remarkably similar plot. It’s possible that you may have experienced something like this before. But this time there’s a different bad guy that the revived Ray – code-name Bloodshot – is pointed at.Īnd there’s every indication that this sequence will go on ad infinitum. So now Ray is set up to repeat the same original backstory – you know, wife kidnapped, bad guy, everyone gets shot. Rather like what you do with a malfunctioning computer. Pearce shuts down Ray, and then starts him up again. The clearly villainous mastermind behind all this hi-tech hocus-pocus is played by Guy Pearce who can - and occasionally does – do this sort of character in his sleep. It was about here I rather lost my grip on the plot.
Ray takes off after the bad guy, then finds his reality folding in on him. Well, not simple exactly, but pretty dumb. He takes off to kill the louse who shot his spouse.īut things aren’t as simple as they appear. Wait, what?īut Ray is revived, and furious. It all goes wrong, his wife is killed, and then so is Ray. Anyway, at the start of Bloodshot we see soldier of fortune Ray chasing after the ratbags who kidnapped his wife. Well perhaps not so much furious as glum and monosyllabic. He’s played by the Furious half of the Fast and Furious franchise, Vin Diesel. It’s violent, it’s ridiculously complicated, while still emotionally shallow and it involves a lead character called Ray something, who looks positively undressed without a gun in his hand. Now this is clearly catnip to the mostly adolescent male fans of comic-books like Bloodshot. Which brings me to a film called Bloodshot – I have to admit I’d never heard of it – the jewel in the crown of Valiant Comics – I’d never heard of them either.īut Valiant’s Bloodshot is a big deal in the comic-book world – the tale of a super-soldier constantly being brought back from the dead by a nefarious scientist. What’s needed for a hit movie based on a comic-book is… well, everyone else. The fact is, comic-book fans may be passionate and obsessive, but they’re not as numerous as events like Comic Con would have you believe. The movie landscape is littered with the whited bones of failed comic-book projects.
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