YMMV / Bloodshot (2020)

• Captain Obvious Reveal: Ray kills the guy who killed his wife in the first act. Guy Pearce, who's a pretty big name and often plays villains, plays the scientist who resurrected Ray and seems to have no active role in the story afterwards. It's pretty obvious that he'll turn out to be the ultimate villain. Not to mention that for anyone who saw Iron Man 3, the memory that he was the secret villain of that movie too will only make it more obvious. Even barring that, this reveal was shown in the very first trailer, so it is unclear if it was meant to be a surprise at all.
• Cliché Storm: The opening of the film; a soldier pulls a One-Man Army hostage rescue, goes home to his beautiful wife, gets kidnapped, she's murdered in front of him by a cacklingly evil villain who plays corny music in a meat packing facility. This is actually intentional, as the whole thing is actually a carefully-constructed simulation to motivate him to perform what he thinks is a Roaring Rampage of Revenge but is actually an assassination, and the ideas were all ripped off from Hollywood movies by the man who made the simulation.
• Complete Monster: Dr. Emil Harting is the lead scientist of Rising Tech Industries. To take care of those who have defected from RST, Harting utilizes his pet project Ray Garrison, a soldier whom Harting has fashioned into his own personal assassin through the use of nanite technology and constant Mind Rape. Harting brainwashes Ray to see Harting's rivals kill Ray's wife before unleashing Ray to slaughter everyone in his path. Harting subsequently resets Ray's memory and subjects him to the process all over again to release him on the next target, with all intention of killing Ray when his purpose is used. When KT, one of Harting's minions, tries to quit in disgust, Harting attempts to murder her by shutting off the respirator system that allows her to breathe.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Harting crosses it when he uses Ray for his own selfish purposes by constantly giving him and repeating the painful yet fake memories of different people he wants dead, which is also another line he crossed because they left him.
  • Dalton shows just how truly heartless he be when he crosses it in the final battle by intentionally dropping his partner Tibbs to his death while showing absolutely no remorse for it. Unfortunately for him, this immediately bites Dalton back in the ass with the same fate inflicted to him by Ray. Another good potential option for his crossing the line is when he makes clear to Ray that he tells him again and again right before resetting his nanites after the Axe assassination that his life is a lie and gives him a few seconds to assimilate him (and for Dalton to enjoy it) before he presses the button.
• Narm Charm: Martin Axe making a hilariously stupid dance in his entrance set to Psycho Killer, with Ray’s reaction being bewildered. Plus the action film cliché-ridden first act of the movie. Only for it all to be intentional. The dance and choice of music is even mocked by Harting, so it’s mean to be corny.
• Nightmare Fuel: The film creates a scenario where a group of armed soldiers, several in bulletproof vehicles, are trapped in a tunnel by Garrison, who stalks them like an Implacable Man — he cannot be downed by conventional weapons, stalks soldiers by picking them off through the smoke and debris of a collapsed tanker filled with flour, reforms himself in front of his target after part of his skull is blown off, and ultimately chainsaws through the opposition like they were butter. He later does the same thing at an isolated mansion in Bristol, England, where (realizing what's happening) he becomes The Dreaded to his next target.
• Signature Scene: The climax, where Ray (now overclocking his nanites) walks out of debris, resembling his comic-book counterpart — eyes bloodshot, ashen-white skin, with a blazing core as he reforms his body in front of Dr. Emil Harting.
• Tainted by the Preview: Many people were left worried that apparently the only way the people who cut the first trailer could think to make the movie look interesting was to completely blow the film's big twist.

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