Overview: Based on the bestselling comic book, Vin Diesel stars as Ray Garrison, a soldier recently killed in action and brought back to life as the superhero Bloodshot by the RST corporation.

With an army of nanotechnology in his veins, he is an unstoppable force -- stronger than ever and able to heal instantly. But in controlling his body, the company has sway over his mind and memories, too.

Now, Ray does not know what is real and what is not -- but he is on a mission to find out.

Verdict: You cannot stop Bloodshot, you can only hope to contain him.

Your knives and bullets and grenades and speeding trucks will slow him down, but he will just keep coming until he has settled that score, righted that wrong, avenged that injustice.

In fact, there might be only one thing on this Earth that can stop Bloodshot and that is the screenplay for Bloodshot.

Yep, that did the trick.

Frantically overcooked, bursting with headache-inducing, rapid-cut action sequences and only half as clever as it fancies itself, Bloodshot is an ambitious and intermittently entertaining minor-league superhero film; with Vin Diesel grunting and grimacing his way through the title role while the supporting players around him are saddled with playing overly familiar, cliche-riddled stock types.

Kudos to director David S. F. Wilson and writers Jeff Wadlow and Eric Heisserer for occasionally having a character actually remark on certain hackneyed elements of the plot, but far more often, everyone is just going through the motions as the story becomes ever more convoluted and ever less worthy of our emotional investment.

There is a moment in Bloodshot when Vin Diesel and a psycho bad guy are duking it out in slow motion. (I do not want to spoil certain plot developments by naming the other actor.) This gives them both the opportunity to overact.

In slow motion!

Diesel is squarely in his narrow comfort zone as Ray Garrison, a badass Marine who has accumulated some horrific scars on various tours of duty, but Ray always manages to come home to his adoring wife Gina (Talulah Riley). That is what he tells her when she embraces him in sun-dappled shots right out of a Michael Bay movie.

But then one night, the obligatory squad of mercenaries ambushes Ray and Gian, and they are both assassinated -- or are they?

Ray wakes up in one of those sleek, high-tech, multi-story, super-secret labs we see in the movies. Thanks to the genius Dr. Emil Harting (Guy Pearce) and his team of technicians, Ray has been brought back to life via super-powerful nanites injected into what was once his bloodstream (hence the name Bloodshot).

But wait, there is more! Ray is now super-strong and has the power to immediately rejuvenate, sort of like the cyborg in Terminator 2. Ah, but he has lost his memory and he is forced to keep on living the same day (with certain variations) over and over again, like Drew Barrymore in 50 First Dates.

Sucks to be Ray!

Pearces Dr. Harting is a sadistic genius who has grand plans to weaponize his creations. (Never heard that one before.) Oh, and he has a titanium arm that includes the most advanced remote control you have ever seen.

Just by pushing a few buttons on his magic arm, Harting can find Ray anywhere in the world, or close the breathing apparatus keeping alive Eiza Gonzalezs K.T., who we are told is a former NAVY swimmer and is getting too close too close, I tell ya!

If Dr. Harting ever lost THAT remote, boy would he be ticked!

Bloodshot has a pretty nifty twist about halfway through, but then it is back to the bombastic sermonizing from Dr. Harting, who has a serious case of God Complex after bringing Ray back to life, followed by yet another effects-laden, quick-cut, loud and amazingly uninvolving action sequence.