Given their cultural dominance, playground games for boys naturally often center on make-believe superhero play. But in this fantasy pretend, there’s always that one windbag kid—let’s call that f*cker Chad—that imbues his invented character with so many utterly invincible powers he essentially ruins any capacity for drama or stakes rendering the entire imaginary peril pointless and dull. Thanks, Chad. Welcome to Sony’s “Bloodshot”—the superhero film equivalent of the worst kid at the playground. 

The latest attempt to anchor a relatively unknown superhero property around an A-list actor, “Bloodshot,” stars Vin Diesel as a character, sometimes known as “Ray,” other times “Garrison,” and only once “Bloodshot.” He’s a deceased former soldier brought back to life as a seemingly unconquerable killing machine by RST, a mysterious tech company led by Dr.

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