Bloodsport is also a superhero comic book movie, except he’s not from the two giants that dominate comic book movies today – Marvel or DC – but a small, little-known comic book company, Daredevil Comics. The company is relatively small and was founded by Jim Shooter and Bob Layton, editors of Marvel Comics in the early years.
Because of its small size, Daredevil Comics didn’t have a lot of notable comic book characters. The character “Bloodbath” was already the mainstay of Daredevil Comics, the equivalent of Marvel’s Team America and DC’s Batman, and was the backbone of the small company. In fact, Warriors Comics has only four other characters that can be named – Blood Warrior, Herald Warrior, Zero Suit and Nightshade.
The Blood Warrior comics first appeared in 1992. In the original setting of the comic, he had fair skin and a red circle on his chest, a soldier with cutting-edge nanotechnology in his body. Because of the augmentation and guardianship of this nano-factor in his body, he can rely on nano-copying for regeneration and can control all electronic devices. This ability is like a combination of Deadpool’s regeneration ability and Steel Bone’s ability to control all electronic technology products.
A soldier who doesn’t want to be a general is not a good soldier, and Daredevil Comics also wants to start its own Daredevil cinematic universe in the movie world. To this end, he has also actively approached major production companies, frequently extending an olive branch for cooperation. Back in 2015, Sony announced plans to create a new superhero cinematic universe based on Daredevil Comics, using those four main superhero characters as the basis to foster a third major superhero universe after Marvel and DC!
However, because of audience tastes, Daredevil Comics’ series of main characters are the preference of a small group of fans, and for a large mainstream audience, it is of course still more popular with young and old alike, like Spider-Man. Moreover, Sony and Marvel have signed a tough deal to lease the characters, with Sony having to return the rights to the characters if they don’t start them regularly. So not only did Sony salivate at the popularity of Marvel characters, but they also had to go along with the current Marvel|Disney trend of grabbing a cut of the Spider-Man franchise partnership with Marvel while actively developing their own Spider-Man-adjacent superheroes, such as the Venom series and the upcoming Moby Dick: Doctor Dark series!
So, the Daredevil Comics universe is on hold from 2016, with Sony’s main focus going into the development of the Spider-Man series and the Venom series. And Van Diesel took this opportunity to turn himself from the voice of Groot to a live-action superhero, and thus, Bloodsport was born!
The comic book storyline of Bloodsport was relatively complex and the adaptation to a single movie had to streamline and refine the main plot. For this reason, the writers chose the origin and awakening of the Blood Warriors as the opening chapter of the series. In fact, it is clear that Van Diesel, the current dominant force in the film, wants to open up the Daredevil comic book universe with this character, in contrast to the two giants of Marvel. And DC, the two giants, to compare their strengths!
The plot of the finished film as announced today is as follows: Van Diesel’s soldier Ray Garrison is killed along with his wife Gina while on holiday, and the RST Corporation brings him back to life through cutting-edge nanotechnology. The nanotechnology gives him superhuman strength and regenerative powers.
With his memories and the company’s technical support, Ray Garrison hunts down the man who killed his wife. They have altered Ray Garrison’s memories, erased his true origins and the reason for his death, imposed a hatred for Gina, and used this fictional hatred as a trigger to lead him to revenge, using him as a weapon to constantly attack different “enemies”. He is used as a weapon to attack different “enemies”. To do so, he comes to his senses and inevitably turns against RST and uses it to trace his true identity and origins!
Bloodsport was written by Eric Heisserer, who was an Oscar finalist for Best Adapted Screenplay for his adaptation of The Descent. Heisserer. But just because it was a hit doesn’t mean it’s still a hit today. The repetitive cycle of revenge in the original Bloodsport comic book storyline could have been played up in many new ways, but here the writers have gone for the most straightforward, simple and safe narrative.
Thinking back to the somewhat similarly set up “Source Code”, “Edge of Tomorrow”, “Fragments of Memory” and others in the repetitive revenge or mystery genre, and comparing it to the single line of “revenge – discovery of deception – – reverse revenge”, it is clear that the writers have taken a very different approach. -The plot of Bloodsport is mediocre. It’s a shame to waste such a good set-up. Well, considering Van Diesel’s usual demanding nature, I’m guessing the writers had little autonomy under the direction of the lead writer, resulting in a final script that was too ambiguous to be safe!
And in the plot, the screenwriter makes it look like a B-movie from twenty years ago, using too many dry functional principles to explain the use of various high-tech processes. After Ray awakens, the film takes a long time for us to follow the perspective of the RST boss as he excitedly introduces the technology that has been implanted in Ray’s body to bring him back to life. But why are you introducing Ray, and why are you introducing the little guy next to him? But it’s already 2020, and this kind of explanatory dialogue and scenes would have been out of place in the flow of science fiction decades ago. In fact, if you want to introduce the technological content of Ray’s body, you can do so upfront and then break up the technological effects to present them in other key scenes of the film, in order to give the audience more freshness and also to enhance the pace of the film.
Nowadays, audiences have seen a lot of technology, what haven’t they seen before? Do you have to go to the trouble of spending more than ten minutes on each piece of technology to explain how it works? Perhaps there’s another layer to this – to delay the plot, to make the concept as mysterious as possible, so as to cut down on the length and number of scene changes in later scenes, and to save money by using lines to save time in later fights.
Moreover, Van Diesel’s aim to dominate the film has already affected the overall staging of the film – those who are better actors and have more potential than him will either be out early or end up in a bad way. At the end of the day, Van Diesel doesn’t allow anyone to be on par with him!
In today’s standard operating procedure of one first-rate actor with three or four newcomers or newcomers to the drama scene, Van Diesel, Aisha Gonzalez, Sam Heughan, Toby Kebbell and Guy Pearce are the top five actors in a B-movie.
Aisha Gonzalez is a rising star, a daredevil Latina with her own brown-skinned flair and hot, dry Mexican descent. A rising star in the same league as Ben Affleck’s new girlfriend, Anna de Armas, Disney’s Princess Jasmine Naomi Scott and Up in the Air’s Okafina, the newest multi-skinned starlet!
But the plot doesn’t fully develop her as a female face, either emotionally or in the fight scenes, and what could have been a collection of flexible elements becomes a functional character because of too many incoherent words! Sam Heughan, who got his feet wet in television with “The Legend of the Ancient Battlefield”, quickly appeared in a series of action or funny movies with his angular face and tall, tall, agile and crisp fights, and his slightly crooked looks added to his recognisability, and his strength and appearance are both promising!
As for Toby Kebbell, one of the most underrated but underappreciated actors on the 30 step ladder, his strength is already on the threshold of the Oscars, and he can compete with actors of his age like Shia LaBeouf and Michael Meyer. Unfortunately, his resources are limited and the live-action choices are all B-movies, while motion-capture films like Warcraft and Rise of the Planet of the Apes have good word-of-mouth but audiences are unaware of his efforts.
Because he was so strong, Van Diesel didn’t even dare to cast him as the ultimate villain, but instead had him disappear from the plot as quickly as possible as a pre-credits character! As for “Lord Manchu” Guy Pearce, forget it, he’s too strong, so he’s only allowed to show his real strength.
And as always, Van Diesel, the absolute protagonist, turns his role into his own aura of stardom. All the plots and special effects are for him alone. But the problem is that from beginning to end the plot doesn’t give much indication of the character, let alone reinforcing the character’s deeper personality. Ray is like a tool man, either on his way to revenge or on his way to it.
And this path to revenge is monotonous and boring as hell. Everyone else gets superpowers and can’t help but want the world to know all kinds of smugness, though not necessarily showing their faces, at least the action design is all about how handsome the fight is. But we have the simplest fight scenes with Van Diesel, all by mangling and beating. The whole body attack system, the flesh body team battle, the flesh body deadly, the flesh body top bomb, from the beginning to the end dare to dodge a little count me lose.
So, Blood Warrior has a kind of bulky feeling of carrying all the attacks with your flesh, and from the beginning to the end, it exudes a kind of thick and heavy action film, which is not at all like the superheroes of the same genre.
Personally, I actually missed the speed of the Fast and the Furious!
