![]() Diesel’s earthy charisma and bruising build fit the Ray Garrison template but his lack of acting skills subverts the very effect that is desired for a successful superhero franchise. The intended comedy gags fall flat as Diesel’s deadpan expressionism makes it all look clinical and generic. Guy Pearce’s Harting is meant to organically emerge as the chief villain but neither the writing nor the performance makes it impressive enough to fuel affect. RST has other enhanced wounded warriors like Navy survivor KT (Eiza González) and the legless Jimmy Dalton (Sam Heughan) basically reconfigured to do Harting’s bidding. There’s a lot of talk of coding and satellite aided shut-down controls that function intermittently. ![]() But Harting doesn’t reckon for Garrison’s memory return and everything goes out of control. Harting’s nanotechnology bloodstream injections (called nanites) aid in keeping him fighting fit and within Harting’s control. The clinically dead Ray Garrison (Vin Diesel) re-awakens in Dr Emil Harting’s (Guy Pearce) RST industrial facility and realises that he has been bio-mechanised into a killer machine. The star’s bio-mechanically resurrected super soldier on the loose take is way too caricatured, common and generic to be worthy of being optioned as a cinematic legend. Bloodshot, a big-budget adaptation of the cult Valiant comic book character and Vin Diesel’s hope for a super heroic mainstream Hollywood multi-sequel franchise future, does him more harm than good.
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