Bloodshot (film)

Bloodshot
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	David S. F. Wilson
Produced by	Neal H. Moritz Toby Jaffe Dinesh Shamdasani Vin Diesel
Screenplay by	Jeff Wadlow Eric Heisserer
Story by	Jeff Wadlow
Based on	Bloodshot by Kevin VanHook Don Perlin Bob Layton
Starring	Vin Diesel Eiza González Sam Heughan Toby Kebbell Guy Pearce
Music by	Steve Jablonsky
Cinematography	Jacques Jouffret
Edited by	Jim May
Production company	Columbia Pictures Bona Film Group Cross Creek Pictures Original Film One Race Films Valiant Entertainment Annabell Pictures The Hideaway Entertainment
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Releasing
Release date	March 13, 2020 (2020-03-13)
Running time	109 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$45 million
Box office	$37.3 million

Bloodshot is a 2020 American superhero film based on the Valiant Comics character of the same name. It is intended to be the first installment in a series of films set within a Valiant Comics shared cinematic universe. Directed by David S. F. Wilson (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Jeff Wadlow and Eric Heisserer and a story by Wadlow, the film stars Vin Diesel, Eiza González, Sam Heughan, Toby Kebbell, and Guy Pearce. It follows a soldier who was killed in action, only to be brought back to life with superpowers by an organization that wants to use him as a weapon.

Plot

After leading a successful rescue operation of hostages in Mombasa, U.S. soldier, Ray Garrison, and his wife, Gina, travel for a holiday at an Italian beachside town in the Amalfi Coast. They are kidnapped by a group of mercenaries led by Martin Axe, who demands to know how the US military learned about the hostages and their location. When Ray explains that he cannot answer, as he isn't privy to that sort information, Axe executes Gina in front of him. Ray vows revenge, and Axe kills Ray as well.

An amnesiac Ray awakens in the labs of Rising Spirit Technologies (RST), a company in Kuala Lumpur specializing in cybernetic enhancements for disabled US military personnel. CEO and lead scientist, Dr. Emil Harting, tells Ray he is the first successful human subject of the "Bloodshot" program, resurrecting and healing him through the injection of experimental nanite technology now replacing his entire bloodstream. This technology increases his strength and heals his injuries, but the nanites need to be regularly replaced and recharged or he will eventually succumb to damage and die again. When the nanites work at extreme power, they create a red glowing circle of light on Ray's chest.

Ray is introduced to Dr. Harting's other patients, including former US Navy diver "KT" (with whom Ray strikes up a friendship), former U.S. Army Ranger Marcus Tibbs, and ex-Navy SEAL Jimmy Dalton (who overtly—maybe even jealously—dislikes Garrison). After experiencing flashbacks of Gina and Axe, he leaves to avenge Gina's death. Using the nanites and RST servers to hack into databases, Ray tracks down Axe to Budapest and kills him along with his bodyguards. Back at RST, Ray is put to sleep as his nanites are rebooted. As he has done many times before, Harting then replaces Ray's memories with a new scenario of how Gina died, this time with Axe's associate, Nick Baris, as the culprit. KT objects to Harting repeatedly manipulating Ray's memories so he will go after different targets without question or remorse, but she is ignored and reminded that RST can kill her by deactivating her enhancements.

Ray awakens, once again amnesiac, and is re-introduced to RST, then experiences flashbacks of Baris kidnapping and killing him and Gina. Driven by revenge, he tracks Baris to East Sussex and kills him, despite the man pleading that RST is lying. Wilfred Wigans, a programmer forced to work for Baris, activates an EMP bomb that incapacitates Ray and severs his link with RST. Ray awakens in Wigans's office and experiences multiple contradicting memories of who killed Gina. Wigans helps him realize RST has been manipulating him so he would kill the company's enemies and rivals. Ray tracks down Gina, not only learning she is actually still alive but that their relationship ended five years ago, and since then, she has started a new family in London.

Harting sends KT after Wigans, but after KT asks Wigans for help in freeing herself from RST control and taking down the corporation, she returns to RST and tells Harting she failed to capture the programmer. Meanwhile, Ray is recaptured by Dalton and Tibbs and brought back to the laboratory. KT and Wigans sabotage the reprogramming process and destroy the RST computers. Ray awakens and Dalton and Tibbs try to subdue him. After a lengthy battle, he kills them as the RST building crumbles. Harting confronts Ray with a grenade launcher, confident that the soldier will surrender now that his nanites have been exhausted. To his surprise, Ray is willing to die to achieve victory and activates a grenade that the nanites deconstructed, fatally wounding them both. Ray later awakes with his full memories, revived by Wigans who has updated his technology so his nanites are self-sufficient. The two men and KT then leave in search of a new life.