![]() ![]() After the first act winds up and our hero gets reborn, the lab techs responsible for converting Garrison into the unstoppable force known as Bloodshot mutter about how they went strictly by the book in concocting this scenario. There’s a loving wife as silent as she is blond, an eccentric murderer dancing around to Psycho Killer by Talking Heads, the barked vow to find and destroy the men responsible. The script goes through the factory-issue beats for any star vehicle about a supersoldier stripped of his memory and converted into a killing machine, an oddly specific setup to be so well trodden. Though his origin story introduces him as a lethal combination of flesh and technology, the man born Ray Garrison (Vin Diesel) actually fuses little more than RoboCop to Wolverine. ![]() There’s a whole lot of winking going on in Bloodshot, David SF Wilson’s silver screen take on the flagship superhero of 90s alt-comics outfit Valiant. The Hunt review – gory Trump-baiting satire is more hype than horror Calling out their own hack tendencies can make a person seem clever and savvy just as easily as it can make them seem like a hack. But unless such a comment does something with the recognition of its artifice, channeling that towards auto-critique or deconstruction or postmodern what-have-you, it just seems like the writer couldn’t be troubled to think of anything better. ![]() When one character does something hackneyed and another remarks on that quality, that’s the author of their dialogue signaling that they know the score and that they’re with us. It is the Hollywood screenwriter’s great misconception that self-consciously acknowledging cliche in a script neutralizes it. ![]()
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