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Bosco685

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Liked it very, very much! Like one of those movies from the 80's with loads of action. Liked how they were realistic with nanite technology having limitations. Fun to watch, but not something to rewatch.

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Prior to executing one of the biggest action sequences in Bloodshot where multiple cars crash in a tunnel and Vin Diesel (playing a no-mercy killing machine) identifies his trembling target, first-time director Dave Wilson spent a weekend watching Russian dash cam footage for inspiration. They are "not pleasant," he tells The Hollywood Reporter, prior to the film's release. "[But] there was one where a bakery truck crashed into the side of a building and all this flour spills out. It was visually arresting. I wanted to make a whole scene like that, and it also fit into the iconic Bloodshot [colors]: red and white."

 

The result is one of the more eye-catching moments in Sony's Bloodshot, the new superhero film based on the Valiant Comics character.  

 

Since one can't shut a working tunnel down for two weeks, the construction team built a tunnel-like set in South Africa, Wilson's home country and where the majority of the movie was filmed. "It was tricky, because there's multiple lighting scenarios in there, and the re-set time to comb all the flour down; lots of air hoses and ventilation systems," explains Wilson, adding that they couldn't actually use flour because it's flammable. "It was a lot of fun." He quickly clarifies: "It was very unpleasant, but I usually find that those filming situations bare the most interesting visuals."

 

Those visuals tell the story of the changes slain soldier Ray Garrison (Diesel) goes through. In order to carry out the killing assignments of Dr. Emil Harting (Guy Pearce), Garrison is re-animated by nanotechnology with healing superpowers, which take the form of nanobots in his bloodstream. In deciding upon their look, Wilson, formally the creative director of Blur Studios with Deadpool's Tim Miller, again danced between the pleasant and unpleasant.

 

"I always knew I wanted two modes; one was a cellular mode where [they] would seal up and much like a red blood cell move through his body throughout his circulatory system," says Wilson. "But then they obviously needed to move independently and be able to heal him, so they would open up and crawl around. The big thing was, I didn't want them to look like pleasant things everyone would want inside of them. I wanted them to be unpleasant, alien-like insect things in your body doing all sorts of unsavory things."

 

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Rotten Tomatoes early number is hovering around 40% fresh, which seems to be the Vin Diesel score from Rotten Tomatoes no matter what movie he's (seen) in.  As Groot, critics seem to like him a little better. lol

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12 minutes ago, paperheart said:

cherry picking season has begun :roflmao:

You really add no value with that negativity you pull out of your panties. So pull them up, straighten out your stockings, and get back in there with a more positive attitude.

Amazing what a better conversation it will lead to. Try it more often. You may be shocked. :foryou:

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VARIETY: Vin Diesel, at his bruising best, plays a soldier rebuilt into a superhero in a comic-book action movie that's built on just enough of a matrix to be fun

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A movie hero gets unplugged from the web of grand illusion he’s been living in, then dunked into the reality behind the façade. That’s what happened in “The Matrix,” when Keanu Reeves’ Neo woke up to learn that he’d been trapped in a narcotizing dream world. It happens, once again, in “Bloodshot,” a derivative but catchy pulp action superhero head trip about a U.S. Marine, Ray Garrison (Vin Diesel), who gets killed and brought back to life in a newly enhanced and indestructible form. He goes on a vengeful murder mission, hunting down the scoundrel who killed his wife, but even this payback odyssey isn’t what it seems — it’s the creation of forces out to control him.

 

If you’re part of the audience that goes to see “Bloodshot,” you may experience your own version of that pleasingly disorienting unplugged feeling. Here we are, once again, signing on for a paranoid kinetic fantasy cobbled together out of the blockbuster sci-fi elements of the past. Watching the movie, we think we know what’s real and what’s not. But “Bloodshot” is here to tell you, “Let go of those earlier movie illusions. Embrace the new model! It’s the only kicking--through-the-looking-glass spectacle you’ll need.”

 

What gives “Bloodshot” its baseline jolt of effectiveness is that we aren’t just watching Garrison caught up in his programmed experience of virtual reality; we’re living it right along with him. In the opening sequence, he leads a combat rescue mission in Kenya, and shortly afterwards gets taken prisoner in a scene so movie-ish that we’re not entirely sure whether it’s meant to be stupido or meta. A bad guy, Martin Axe (Tony Kebbell), shimmies into a meat locker to the ominous bop of Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” (his dance moves are pure Michael Madsen from “Reservoir Dogs”) and once there proceeds to threaten Garrison with executing his wife, Gina (Talulah Riley), right in front of him.

 

Of course, no one is about to steal this movie from Vin Diesel, who gives a ferociously committed pummeling-his-way-out-of-the-virtual-mirage performance. He looks, more than ever, like Mr. Clean fused with Adam Sandler, but that’s part of his action charisma, which in “Bloodshot” is at full boil. His combat moves are lithe and fierce, fusing brains and brawn; the climactic sequence, a duel on a skyscraper’s exoskeletal elevator, earns every rousing moment. “Bloodshot” is a trash compactor of a comic-book film, but it’s smart trash, an action matrix that’s fun to plug into.

 

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THR: 'Bloodshot': Film Review

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Makes for an unremarkable false start.

 

With Bloodshot, Vin Diesel adds a new hero to his collection of wisecracking rebels, after notable turns as a street racer, intergalactic raider and deep space fugitive, among a series of other memorable (or not) roles. A muscular actioner with enough explosions, shoot-outs and beatdowns to satisfy the young male audiences typically drawn to Diesel’s material, Sony Pictures’ feature should benefit from release in the immersive ICE cinema format. But even that enhancement may not broaden the movie’s appeal much beyond a predictable fan base.

 

Based on the popular Valiant Comics character, Bloodshot’s origin story represents Sony’s attempt to stake a claim to a cinematic universe that could become a competitive superhero franchise, but this initial installment consistently struggles to deliver the goods.

 

Visual effects expert and first-time feature director David S.F. Wilson doesn’t have much use for character development or backstory, jumping straight into the action as tough-as-nails U.S. Marine Ray Garrison (Diesel) confronts a group of unsavory operatives holding him hostage who are determined to extract classified information about his latest clandestine mission. Although Garrison insists he’s in the dark, aspiring arch-criminal Martin Axe (Toby Kebbell) attempts to persuade him to turn on his handlers by torturing and then executing his wife (Talulah Riley) before killing Garrison, too — but not before the soldier swears to track him down and take him out.

 

Diesel tackles this unremarkable storyline with his usual gusto, grunting and flexing his way through successively more intense action scenes. In keeping with his frequently taciturn characters, he doesn’t have much to say, but he kicks a lot of , particularly in a couple of impressive set pieces that see him taking out a variety of heavily armed or technologically enhanced baddies. Meanwhile, Pearce really isn’t up to the villainous evil scientist character, showing way too much empathy and not enough antipathy toward his high-tech creations.

 

Wilson acquits himself adequately enough, emphasizing pacing over character development, but delivering a series of kinetically propelled scenes that clearly benefit from his extensive visual effects experience.

 

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