Blood Shot

Blood Shot

Year: 2013

Runtime: 95 mins

Language: English

Director: Dietrich Johnston

ActionComedyHorror

When a police officer's life unravels while pursuing a ruthless, vampire-like hitman with CIA ties, he finds himself reluctantly teaming up with his target. They must work together to thwart a dangerous terrorist cell, facing bizarre and outlandish challenges along the way. Their mission takes them through a series of unexpected encounters, including a harem, giant eunuchs, a demon-genie, and even explosive performers.

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1

Hostage Situation in Mombasa

The movie opens with Marine Ray Garrison storming a compound in Mombasa, taking out criminals and confronting the main target. He cleverly tricks the target into exposing himself by aiming his rifle at a hostage, ultimately freeing the hostage and ending the hostage situation. This intense operation sets the tone for Ray’s combat skills and determination.

Mombasa, Kenya
2

Ray Returns Home and Faces Attack

After the mission, Ray returns home to a peaceful evening with his wife Gina. However, their quiet night is shattered when home invaders attack. Ray fights to protect his family but is incapacitated with a tranquilizer during the altercation, leaving him vulnerable and captured.

3

Capture and Torture by Axe

Ray wakes up tied to a chair in a testing facility, where Axe questions him about who tipped him off about the Mombasa operation. When Ray denies knowledge, Axe forces Gina into the room and kills her with a nail gun, prompting Ray to accept defeat and demand death as well.

4

Revival at RST Facility

Ray is revived at a high-tech RST lab, where Dr. Emil Harting explains that nanites have been used to rebuild and enhance his body, giving him superhuman strength and regenerative abilities. Other soldiers with similar improvements are also introduced to him, highlighting the advanced technology used.

5

Memory Trigger and Revenge

While interacting with KT, Ray hears a song that triggers a flashback of Axe killing him and Gina. Driven by this memory, he hacks into a system to track Axe and his men, chasing after them. He fights through gunfire, demonstrating his newly enhanced healing abilities, and ultimately kills Axe in a tunnel.

6

Deception Uncovered at RST

Ray is taken back to RST and shown that the hostage situation was fabricated as part of a manipulation. The team replaces Axe’s face with that of Nick Baris and alters their story, revealing a conspiracy involving Harting, Baris, and others. KT opposes these deceptions, sensing Ray is being used.

7

Infiltration of Baris’s Compound

Ray allows himself to be captured and infiltrates Baris’s compound after being led into a trap. Using his enhanced abilities, he fights and kills Baris’s men, but Wigans activates an EMP, disabling Ray and plunging the area into darkness, forcing Ray into a disabled state.

8

Wigans’ Help and Revelation

Wigans revives Ray with a powerful electrical charge and reveals that he was forced to work for Baris. As they discuss the manipulations, Ray learns that Gina is alive. Wigans shares his memory of the killers’ faces, indicating a pattern of deception and hinting at a larger conspiracy involving multiple operatives.

9

Tracking Gina and Emotional Confrontation

Using Wigans’s help, Ray tracks down Gina, who is now remarried with children. She is happy to see him but explains that they parted ways five years ago. Ray’s heart aches as he realizes he has lost her, and he leaves, leading to a confrontation with Dalton, who is then crippled in an accident involving a truck.

10

Harting’s Further Manipulations

Harting causes Ray to experience a simulated hostage scenario to manipulate his thoughts. As Ray becomes aware of the deception, KT intervenes by removing Harting’s control over her implant, allowing her to challenge him. Ray then breaks free from the simulation and fights back against Harting’s forces.

11

Final Confrontation and Explosion

In a fierce showdown, Ray battles Harting’s forces, with Tibbs and Dalton fighting alongside him. The conflict culminates in Ray destroying Harting with a grenade he catches and ignites, causing an explosion that destroys the villain and the laboratory, ending his manipulations permanently.

12

Wigans’s Rescue and New Beginning

Wigans successfully retrieves Ray’s body and reprograms his Nanites, reviving and restoring him. Ray, KT, and Wigans team up to continue working together, seeking justice and unraveling the remaining mysteries left by Harting’s sinister plans. The film concludes with the possibility of new missions and hope for Ray’s future.

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