Reviews are now out for the three big new wide releases opening this weekend and the reactions are mostly not good.
The Vin Diesel-led comic adaptation “Bloodshot” currently sits at just 41% (4.8/10) on Rotten Tomatoes. EW calls it “Inception drawn in extra-thick Sharpie and testosterone” while the LA Times says it’s “a bewildering piece of good-bad sci-fi action trash”. Reviews frequently dub it cheesy and a film that’s aware of that and has fun with it.
The delayed and supposedly controversial “The Hunt” meanwhile isn’t doing much better with 55% (5.53/10) on Rotten Tomatoes. There’s obvious division over its approach – some labelling it a smart satire whilst others finding it self-satisfied. However “GLOW” star Betty Gilpin as the film’s lead is scoring universal praise, Indiewire David Ehrlich calling her work an “inspired and strange performance that splits the difference between Linda Hamilton and ‘No Country for Old Men’ baddie Anton Chigurh.”
Both films are tracking to open to around $10 million each and will be beaten by the faith-based biopic “I Still Believe” starring “Riverdale” hunk KJ Apa as Christian music mega star Jeremy Camp. That film, on track to open at around $13 million, is scoring better but so far hasn’t really been reviewed beyond outlets catering to the audiences the film was made for.
You can check out a new featurette for “Bloodshot” below.
