Ballistic - Ecks vs. Sever | Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu | A guilty pleasure if there ever was one

Ballistic - Ecks vs. Sever | Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu | Orgami cranes

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	Ballistic - Ecks vs. Sever Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu Warner Home Video, 2002 average customer review:based on 100 reviews view larger image
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This is a story of two spies, who are lifelong adversaries, engaged in a cat-and-mouse hunt. Jonathan Ecks (Banderas) is an FBI agent hunting the other, Sever (Liu) a rogue NSA agent. What they learn, however, while trying to kill each other... is that they might be on the same side, and faced with a threat greater to each other than themselves.

A guilty pleasure if there ever was one

Ok, so this movie isn't a masterpiece. But I find it to be an entertaining guilty pleasure, one of those movies that one would never admit to anyone else that they own. It has gotten blasted everywhere by professional and non-professional critics alike, and probably bombed at the box office (I wouldn't doubt this for a second). But it does offer some fairly thrilling explosions, shootouts, hand-to-hand combat and the sort. No better or worse than any other clichéd action flick of this genre. The plot leaves little to be desired, sure, but one usually doesn't watch a movie like this for the plot anyway. And of course, there's the gorgeous Lucy Liu. She's quite easy on the eyes here, let me tell you.

I'd recommend this to die-hard Lucy Liu fans, die-hard Antonio Banderas fans, or fans of the totally brainless action flick genre. Not much else to offer other moviegoers I'm afraid. Definitely rent first before buying, and only buy if you can find it cheap.

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You have the good guys turning to the bad guys...
A kidnapping by a mysterious female martial arts expert
turns into a lost and found story,
where the bad guy gets stuck with his own knife.
The dialog is minimal; a lot of chase scenes, explosions
and fight scenes. The only thing it misses is slice and
dice with swords? Lucy Liu's moves seem stiff and stylized;
a real martial arts expert would make short work of her?
Antonio Banderas is pulling a romantic lead in a minimalist fashion.
The best actor in the movie may be the kid who is Ecks' son.

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Nothing more than mindless action entiertainment

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is nothing more than a mindless action flick. The plot is almost non existent, there's a lot of explosions and some pretty good fight scenes. Banderas and Liu seem bored in their roles and director Kaos seems to have a hard on for John Woo because he bites Woo's style through out the movie. Still the fight scene between Ray Park and Lucy Liu was good and that's the only thing that saves this film for me

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