Review of Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) by Jy S — 24 Sep 2007

Despite all the negativity that surrounds this movie, it isn't all that bad. Especially if you like explosions and guns.The story is nothing spectacular by any means. It is really simple and avoids going deep into backgrounds and character development.

This film starts out with a bang and continues in this fashion for the first half before the the story shifts gears. This is where most people will become disappointed with this film. There is still action-a-plenty, but as far as the story is concerned it is probably not what people want to see.

The acting turns out to be quite good. Both Lucy Liu and Antonio Banderas perform their roles nicely. It was also nice to see Gregg Henry as a villain once again. Although he does do a good job with the character he was given, I just think they could have utilized him more.

The action comes in bunches. As mentioned earlier, if you like action this film is for you. What makes it even better is that Lucy Liu is dishing out most of the pain. She empties gun after gun and performs some nice hand to hand combat throughout the film.

I was also happy to see Antonio Banderas sporting one of my favorite weapons. The shotgun. One of the real disappointments in this film was that Ray Park was not used in the right way. He has a ton of airtime, but is involved in ALMOST no action.

We're talking about the greatest man to ever wield a light saber here. This film is loaded with action and they should have used him in it.This isn't an award winning film, but if you like action, or Lucy Liu for that matter, then I recommend this film to you.

Just don't expect a good story.