Friday, 30 October 2020

Bloodshot

Bloodshot marked his first appearance in two different Valiant publications in November 1992 (Eternal Warrior #4 and then a week later in Rai #0), before venturing onto its own self title series in February 1993. Issue one has a street value of about $65, where-as-the November issues have a value between $30-45 depending on the quality of the issue.
The comic book's first few original issues shares similarities with the 2020 motion picture, A Soldier named Ray Garrison awakens each time with his memories wiped by a corporation  called Rising Spirit Tech / Project Rising Spirit.  A program that creates the ultimate soldier, injecting powers of regeneration and meta-morphing made possible by nanites in his blood, that also allow him to telekinetic or Wi-Fi connect to any technological computer or A.I. nearby and override and download any computer systems at his will.


Guy Pearce plays Dr. Emil Harting who was the CEO of Rising Spirit Tech. The person responsible for re-animating Vin Diesel's character Ray Garrison. Bloodshot awakens on a mission that is of personal revenge which motivates him to complete his mission with complete conviction. Garrison eventually teams up with a military medic or in this instance a hacker named Wilfred Wigans played by Lamorne Morris and another progeny of the Rising Spirit. Who venture to stop the corrupt organization from the killing of select targets and free Bloodshot from Harting's control.  The film in this manner is similar to Iron Man 3 with the extremis Program.  Guy Pearce once again plays a tech genius, this one named Aldrich Killian who is looking to establish military contracts for his new enhanced super soldiers who's blood has Extremis; a DNA rebranding that he has not perfected yet without the help of Tony Stark; and with Ray Garrison until the mix of man and machine became perfectly symmetric.

The film is directed by Dave Wilson who's body of work encompasses video effects and directing  video games & game trailers.  Has the climatic fight sequence shot and stylized like an action sequence from out of a videogame. There are very little to no civilians seen in the entirety of the film which holds superhero type characters who possess amazing stamina and durability, which comes across like a fully working videogame sequence.  Though this is merely an observation does not detract from the visual effects team, Dave Wilson nor production crew from pulling off top notch set of action sequences.

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