Based on the Valiant Comics character. Bloodshot is a greatest hits of other movies ranging from Universal Soldier, Edge of Tomorrow to Total Recall and Robocop.

Ray Garrison (Vin Diesel) is a special forces soldier who is kidnapped, interrogated and sees his wife killed in front of him by villain Martin Axe.

Shot and left for dead. Ray wakes up and finds out that he has been augmented and genetically enhanced by tech entrepreneur Dr Emil Harting (Guy Pearce).

Harting has other such modified soldiers and it seems that Garrison along with his new team will be used to go on high risk missions.

Instead Ray immediately goes looking for Axe to take revenge and test out his new powers.

However it might be that Ray is just being used in a complex vendetta and not everything is how he recalls it.

The story is not much, but there is a fair amount of action scenes and mayhem. Bloodshot works as mindless fun entertainment even though it is derivative.

BLOODSHOT is the latest movie from producer-star Vin Diesel, here taking a break from car chasing mayhem for some superhuman antics instead. We're in UNIVERSAL SOLDIER territory with the tale of a soldier brought back from the dead and now almost indestructible thanks to some nifty nano technology inside his bloodstream. It's a surprisingly small scale production with some nice performances (Guy Pearce is always welcome) and plenty of action, most of it quite artistic in look and tone. The set-up assassin storyline is age-old but at least the pacing is fast, although there are some very odd decisions here. Oddest of all is shooting a foot chase through the streets of Cape Town which is meant to be London. What were they thinking?!

Ray Garrison (Vin Diesel) is an American special force squad leader. He and his wife Gina are kidnapped and brutally murdered by mercenary Martin Axe. Tech entrepreneur Dr. Emil Harting (Guy Pearce) brings him back to life with new powers. KT (Eiza González) is another one of Harting's projects.

I don't particularly like Diesel at the start of this movie. He has his moments but this is not one of his best. It's not the worst thing in the world. The plot is functional. The action is bombastic but somehow bland. That's the general takeaway. The movie is trying to be a big comic book superhero origin story but it just lacks something memorable other than Psycho Killer. It comes off as a bland second tier comic book movie.