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Summary: Good Movie
Review: I really enjoyed this movie,of course when I go to see a movie like this I don't go in looking to find all the faults and holes in the plot like most of the people who say this movie is garbage. I go because I like straight up action and this movie has plenty of it.If there is one complaint I have about this movie it is with the dialogue,a lot of the actors talk real low,making it hard to understand.I rented this one and now plan to purchase it.
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Summary: GOOD OLD CHAIN SWINGING ACTION
Review: Miss Lou does a fight scene with her nun-chok chains, like the scene at the end of Charlies Angels. Yes I can understand why people would give this movie a bad ratting, because of the wild story-line, and Miss Lou's amazing ability to avoid getting hit by 1,000 bullets. But I have to give it credit because its much better than a lot of other action movies I've seen in 2002.
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Summary: Such potential, such disappointment.
Review: When I saw that Lucy Lui and Antonio Banderas were going to do an action film together, I was excited. Both actors are high on my list of quality artists. Imagine my dismay as I watched this movie and realized it was a horribly plotted, poorly constructed bomb. Banderas as Ecks and Lui as Sever are one-dimensional robots on screen. The dialogue is forced, action scenes are thrown in from time to time to liven things up and the plot is weak at best. Even the bad guy is miscast and unconvincing. Unless you are a diehard fan of either Lui or Banderas, avoid wasting your time sitting through this movie. Beginning to end, it's [bad].
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Summary: LackLaster Movie
Review: While I have enjoyed Lucy Liu part in this movie. To me she carried the whole movie. I don't know what Antonio Banderas was doing. He was taking up space he was very lackluster in his perfomance. Movie plot was not well-done and other characters were under-developed. But this movie is better than XXX.
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Summary: This movie is bad
Review: This movie is bad. The fight scenes looked terrible because I could practically see the actors counting their footsteps. It has a swiss cheese story and a swiss cheese villain. What were Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu thinking? The last comment I have is: When are they going to give the Wachowski brothers their money for all these Matrix movies Hollywood is putting out?
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Summary: The logical progression of action cinema
Review: I'd like to open my review with a prediction: in a few years' time, Ballistic: Echs vs. Sever will gain a cult following, either with viewers who appreciate "bad cinema," or action junkies who love its sheer over-the-topness. This movie was dumped on beyond belief upon its release, and it's hard to understand why. After all, it's no worse than the other action drek Hollywood churns out. The fact that films like "XXX" and "Charlie's Angels" can be enjoyed as mindless fun, yet Ballistic, which itself is also nothing but candy-flossed entertainment, is derided, boggles my mind. Viewers who enjoy Hong Kong/Asian cinema ("Hard Boiled" and "Shiri" especially) won't have as much trouble enjoying Ballistic as others appear to. I've noticed the main thing people complain about in Ballistic are the unanswered questions and the sometimes outrageousness of the action sequences (i.e., Lucy Liu blasting apart a whole city and not getting a scratch). These sort of things are common place in Hong Kong action cinema, but whereas those movies are appreciated regardless, apparently Ballistic must face tougher criticism, because it is, of course, a Hollywood movie. How hypocritical! Like most, I read the many negative reviews for this movie. I figured it probably wasn't any good, and didn't plan to see it. But then, as I kept reading all of the negative reviews, I began to wonder if Ballistic really WAS so bad. So I rented it, just to find out. Not expecting to enjoy the movie at all, I was surprised to find that it was much better than the "professional" and amateur critics would have you believe. Ballistic: Echs vs. Sever, even though it has a terrible name, is the logical progression of action movies. Plot, character development, realism, and explanations are chucked aside for well-filmed shoot-outs, explosions, and stunts. Sylvester Stallone once remarked that the perfect action movie would be devoid of dialog; like the old silent films, it would use moving images and action to propel the story. Ballistic is pretty close; it's all action, all the time. The last half hour of the movie is the final battle itself. Cast-wise, the actors do fairly well. Lucy Liu has only a handful of lines, but comes off cool and deadly as the sexy assassin. She displays a modicum of emotions, and if you check out the documentary, you'll laugh at how exuberant and giggly the real Lucy Liu is, when compared to the ice cold cube she portrays in the film. Antonio Banderas is for once subdued, which is a shame. I was hoping for a few laughably-bad deliveries and pronunciations, as he treated viewers to in "Assassins." Kaos, the director, is straight out of John Woo's school for directing: lots of slo-mo explosions and sweeping shots. Considering how terribly Ballistic bombed in theaters, I wonder if he'll get the chance to direct a Hollywood feature again. All told, Ballistic is an enjoyable treat for movie fans who like their action movies the old-fashioned way: lots of gunfire, a hokey story, some explosions, actors doing their own stunts, and a healthy lack of computer graphics. That's probably the main reason to recommend Ballistic; unlike most recent action movies that shove lame CGI down our throats (CGI which will no doubt look dated in a few years), Ballistic actually features real-life stunts which certainly placed the actors in jeopardy.
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Summary: Do your homework
Review: The extra material that comes with the DVD includes an interview with the director, Wych Kaosayananda of Thailand, whose pseudonym is Kaos. He states that some of the characters work for "something called the DIA - -I'm told it really exists." DUH! Anyone who does not know the main intelligence gathering arm of the United States Army should not be making a movie about intelligence services in the first place. And while you're doing your homework, check out a map of North America. Canada is a sovereign country and it would probably take a dim view of American intelligence services conducting a war in Vancouver.
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Summary: Save yourself ... ZERO Stars
Review: Many bobms are explained away by the phrase "it must have looked great on paper". There is NO WAY that anyone involved with this turkey could get away with using that phrase. The plot (and I use that word loosely) has holes big enough to send Lucy Liu through them. Whatever you do, please stay as far away from this atrocity as you can!!
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Summary: Great
Review: If you love action and lucy lui definitly see this movie. It is action-packed from the very beginning. Lucy Lui and Antonio Banderas work great together. Plus it has and excellent ending that will surprise you very much. So if you havent seen it go rent it and watch it. You will be at the edge of your seat until the end.
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Summary: Ballistic:Ecks VS Sever
Review: This is mindless movie making at its best or worst depending on how you look at it. The action is good the hand to hand fight scenes are probally the only thing worth watching. Ray Park who is my favorite actor/ martial artist had only one whihc was diappointing and wasn't his best hence the Star Wars light sabre battle. With the name Ballistic I was expecting to see Matrix type action but the action has no purpose. Fight scences should be apart and tell a story. But there is no story here so you have violence with no purpose. The soundtrack is killer with hard techno and Curves hell above the water but the song didn't fit into the scence where Banderas and Liu are in a chase on motorcycles which looks like they are acctually riding the electric carts at the grocery store for the hanicaped cause of how slow they are going. I kindda knew this was what I was in for with this movie story but I expected the fights and action to be something not like Matrix but at least close to it, but it fails in almost all efforts. This sorry excuse for peoples time ranks up there with XXX for the worst movie of the year of 2002.
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