“Are we sure this ain’t all a sim?”

From Bloodshot.

When Ray (Vin Diesel) and his wife Gina (Talulah Riley) are kidnapped after his return from a successful mission, he is horrified to watch bad guys kidnap them so that their leader, Axe (Toby Kebbell) can murder Gina moments before killing Ray.  However, when Ray wakes up he is greeted by Dr. Harting (Guy Pearce) and KT (Eiza González) who inform him that he has been brought back to life through the technology of Harting’s company RST and the help of millions of unbelievable nano-bots that will not only restore his health but also allow his brain to function as a super computer.  With no memory of himself beyond his name, Ray is introduced to the two other members of the team, Dalton (Sam Heughan) and Gibbons (Alex Hernandez), who like Ray and KT were wounded in the military and given a new chance at life through RST’s technology.  When Ray has a flashback of his wife’s murder he sets off to find Axe and take revenge for killing Gina, but after he successfully takes out Axe, Ray discovers that RST is far different than he was told.  Ray realizes that he’s been lied to and his memories altered to make him the perfect super assassin for RST; unfortunately, he remembers this moments too late and is sent into another simulation to replace Axe in his memories with his next target Baris (Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson).  When Ray wakes he goes after Baris, but gets more than he bargained for when he meets Wigans (Lamorne Morris), a coding genius that Baris hired as a last resort. As Harting and his army of techs (led by Siddharth Dhananjay) fight to shut Ray down, Ray begins to learn the real power of his enhancements.

This sci-fi action movie is inspired by the comic book series of the same name.  The story holds some interesting twists and talented actors, but the movie’s real star are the computer effects; the regenerative properties of Diesel’s character are truly mind-blowing.  Bloodshot is a solid origin story that could easily lead to more amazing adventures in the future.

| Rated: PG-13 | Running Time: 109 minutes |Genre: thriller/sci-fi|

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 3* of 10|Nudity: 1 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 7 of 10

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