Bloodshot (2020)

Written by Kamurai on October 4, 2020

Good watch, probably won't watch again, but can recommend.

I had to watch this twice just to make sure I followed it correctly. I was pretty tired the first time, and there is a lot of alternating between whispering / hushed tones and loud gunfire.

This movie does a lot of good visual action and effects, some stuff I don't think I've ever seen on screen before, it's well cast and the production value is through the roof, but I can't say that it's all that good a story.

It's definitely an interesting story, but the movie seeming radically torn between being a promotion of technological power and fear mongering, and the fear mongering bit always irks me because it gets in the way of real progress because someone want to tell a story one way versus another.

The majority of the movie you can see in other movies like any of the movies with Wolverine, "Extraction" (2020), but there are some special bits that make it stand out. I just don't feel like I care about the action that is happening. When you see someone explode a watermelon, yeah it's cool, but why are you doing it, why are you taking 2 hours to do it?

This is a good one-shot, just put it in the queue for when you want to see an action flick.