When he finds himself aware and seemingly alive again Dr. Harting (Guy Pearce) and KT (Eiza González) of Rising Spirit Technologies explain he has been revived through the wonder of nanotechnology.
As he comes to terms with his new state of being he starts to have flashbacks of the man who murdered him and his wife.
He uses his new found superhuman abilities to track the killer down and return the favour.
No good will come of this.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is far better than its reputation had led me to believe.
It is yet another superhero movie. Diesel is kind of wooden but it doesn't matter for the character. The action scenes are tiresome but they are built with an interesting kind of cyberpunk aesthetic to RST's enhanced ex military test subjects. Eiza González' character only exists to be the sympathetic eye candy but she's quite good in the role, as are all the secondary cast. Guy Pearce does good unprincipled scientist and there's a fun take on "guy in the chair" from Lamorne Morris.
When Diesel isn't taking his fists to a gunfight it's got interesting concepts going on. Reheated concepts from other better movies but with a couple of years between me and the trailer so I'd forgotten the reveal until they put it onscreen (nice and early) and it did keep me watching throughout. Which is more than I can say about Multiverse of Madness. They do an interesting mix of just telling you stuff straight off (instead of telegraphing it like mad and everybody pretends they don't know) and keeping stuff genuinely held back. Director David S F Wilson actually does a fair job of this.
Not as bad as you've heard, especially if you've never seen (or forgotten) the spoilery trailer. 6/10 mostly let down by Diesel and very generic action scenes. It could have been good with a few tweaks. Unlike Morbius.