Bloodshot Review: 3 Ups & 7 Downs

By Jack Pooley / March 12, 2020

2. It's Horribly Edited

Perhaps the single most frustrating aspect of Bloodshot is how atrociously it's cut together.

The action sequences in particular boast a migraine-inducing number of cuts, ensuring you'll spend much of the time trying to figure out how characters relate to one another spatially rather than simply enjoying the carnage.

This may be a symptom of Bloodshot being director David S. F. Wilson's feature debut and not collecting enough coverage during principal photography.

Between this and the likelihood that the film was cut down to a PG-13 in post-production - it was originally said to be shooting for an R rating - the set-pieces are choppy to the point of irritation.