Bloodshot Review — Yes, I attended a packed theater full of huggy colleagues to see this comic book based action movie, but should you?

I suppose that becomes the definitive question these days, doesn’t it? Is this film worth sitting in a theater full (or not so full) of strangers to see? You’ll have to make that decision for yourself, but just know that for you, dear readers, I braved it.

Was it worth it? Well, if you’re into brash action movies, comic book heroes, Vin Diesel and/or Sam Heughan (Outlander’s Jamie, for the handful of men who don’t know this), and not in a high risk demo, sure.

It’s jam packed with flashy CGI, guys and girls pummeling each other, and gratuitous (but not unappealing) shots of Diesel in tight T-shirts. In fact, in the very beginning, after Diesel almost single-handedly foils a terrorist cell, then returns to his wife and unabashedly rips off his shirt to greet her, you think, “Oh, it’s that kind of movie—no subtlety whatsoever.

Which is not necessarily a bad thing, if you know going into it that it’s a film based on a comic book — a Valient comic book, for those who are searching their memories in vain for a DC or Marvel hero of that name. This one’s about a guy who gets killed in the line of duty, then is brought back to life by a major corporation that rebuilds him with nano robots instead of blood. They can reassemble and rebuild him into a super guy whenever he gets hit, shot, run over or even has his head smashed in. As you can imagine, there’s a lot of that, and Heughan, as his ally turned foe, is responsible for a good deal of it.

Rookie director David S.F. Wilson does an admirable job for a newcomer, and it’s fun to see Guy Pearce (as the evil corporate head/mad scientist) in anything he does. Eiza Gonzalez is devastatingly gorgeous as a fellow pseudo cyborg, and Larmone Morris absolutely steals the show as the ultimate coding nerd.

So it’s all pretty much good, violent fun, if there is such a thing. But it might be the last movie you see in a theater for awhile, so choose well.

Rated PG-13

1 Hour 49 Minutes

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Bloodshot Review — Yes, I attended a packed theater full of huggy colleagues to see this comic book based action movie, but should you?

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