Bloodshot Review: 3 Ups & 7 Downs

4. The Tame PG-13 Action Sequences

Despite having a fairly modest $45 million budget and being called Bloodshot, the movie disappointingly hits cinemas with a PG-13/12A audience rating, ensuring fans can't even enjoy the film as merely an over-the-top gorefest.

Though there's a ton of death in this movie, most of it is hastily cut around to ensure a "family friendly" content rating, denying viewers the basic satisfaction of some entertaining blood-soaked mayhem.

Granted, an R-rated adaptation of a niche comic would've been a bit of a risk, but even so, a more adult tone would've considerably elevated the generic plotting and helped distance it from other similar PG-13 movies.

Instead, Bloodshot is curiously bloodless to its considerable detriment.