Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
USA/Germany 2002. Director: Wych Kaosayananda
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu, Gregg Henry, Talisa Soto


This dressed-up C-movie might as well have been entitled Bananas or any other adjective. It's bananas from the word go. Only problem, it's not bananas enough. Two superagents, Lucy Liu in heavy leather gere and Antonio Banderas, goes berserk upon their former employer (Gregg Henry). At first the two agents compete, shooting at each other, then they team up. Everything is in fucking slow-motion, all that moves explodes and it's loud in the way a crashing plane is loud. As long as Lucy and Banderas kick ass it's an okey timewaster of a movie. Only then the middle part is melodramatic crap and the film never recovers, turning the last third into a big anti-climatic letdown. They should have sacrificed the limp substance, no one cares about these characters anyway, and just kept the two attractive stars kicking and shooting and it might have worked better. When doing interviews for Ballistic Banderas said that he doesn't care about his career. Well, he should. Someone make him understand.


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