Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

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Never have I had such great expectations for a cast like this and have it fall so flat that I for once agree with all the low votes. This movie was bad...uninspiring, boring, pitiful. I really like Lucy Liu and Antonio Banderas, a lot. But this movie takes the cake for being awful, and boringly awful at that. Every scene is so disjointed, there's almost no plot movement or logical reason for the movie at all. Some people get shot, some stuff gets blown up, Antonio and Liu fight, then they don't fight. That's it, nothing worth watching. Thank goodness they both have careers they can actually be proud of; this movie won't help or hurt them any I don't think.

I went to bratislava with my girlfriend who actually comes from there.....in the daytime,I saw a sign saying The Hulk was on at a 'garden cinema',so being from the UK, this appealed to me greatly and i went along. It was brilliant, a 50 year old outdoor cinema with an old man in the corner of the garden serving refreshments......unfortunately, i read the sign wrong and the Hulk was not showing until the next day....but Ballistic was on instead, so we agreed to watch that! WHAT A MISTAKE........never has a film been so bad that it has spoilt a whole night out for me....no plot, bad acting, bad action scenes...just bad everything. What was Banderas thinking of starring in this utter rubbish? I urge anyone not to waste their money on this!

(spoilers) Poor direction is the only thing that destroys the movie. Poor direction causes poor editing which leads to a very confusing beginning. I had to pause the movie after the first 20 minutes just to figure out what just happened. It takes awhile to figure out that Antonio's wife is still alive , but the confusing exists because you think the beginning of the movie is in the past. It ain't. That's the problem. It does get better, but the movie suffered because it attempted to act like an Asian film (like John Woo's originals). THe big problem with this is that, it used american actors to get the point across. It relied on action and not plot line. No wonder nobody cared. By the end, it was like... bleh.. who cares who gets killed. 5/10 Quality: 1/10 Entertainment: 7/10 Replayable: 4/10

As I watched this sublime work, I became aware that this is unlike the others. Whereas many films will insist they are different, this film embraces what could make it the same to become different. This embrace of what an action film is makes Ballistic highly entertaining and watchable. When added to the pot with unique cinematography and a perfectly subdued yet omnipresent soundtrack, you have a ballet of bullets that seems to slide past as if a dream, and can truly help you to grasp the intricate threads of self-similarity running through the universe, such as those between a cauliflower and an explosion. An exceptional film, 10/10

This movie is the perfect example of how far we've come with action scenes and specifically fight scenes. if you compare the fight scenes in this movie with something like daredevil tv series, it's absurd how big of a difference there is. rather than being fast, hard-hitting and intense, the fight scenes are slow and lack any kind of punch (pun). there is some creativity, but not much. as for the action scenes, basically useless, bunch of slomo explosions for the sake of explosions. lots of stupid parts. very outdated, like with the exaggerated fight sound effects from old movies. the musical score was very different and was pretty cool. the story was abhorant... i dunno if i'm using that word right but that's what came to mind. (2 viewings)

In "Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever", Agent Ecks (Banderas) and freelancer Sever (Liu) team up in this balls-to-the-wall action no-brainer to lay waste to an army of bad guys in one firestorm of hot lead, exploding ordinance, crashing cars, and airborne stuntmen after another. Though there is an underlying human drama and some silly supersecret microbot weapon thingy in the wispy plot, it's all lithe Liu's badass martial arts and stone-faced weapons work which makes the film worth watching. Only for action junkies like me into the more-is-more school of mindless action film-making. (B-)

Frankly I enjoyed this action flick. Ok, the plot's not original. But Lucy Liu's performance's convincing. As for Antonio Banderas, well, time goes by, but he's a good sideshow for Lucy. I thought Talisa'd kick ass, whereas she doesn't say many lines in this movie. I feel that MK 3 will be the action movie for Talisa. I hope she won't disappear form the movie industry as it happened to Charlotte Lewis