Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever

Pros: All style
Cons: No substance

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is the kind of action movie that could have been so much better if only a few extra minutes were devoted to building the story and characters, rather than just blowing something up. Its about two super agent type (Antonio...

Pros: One neat shot of a guy falling. Banderas has a way about him.
Cons: read review.

How hard could it be to make a decent action picture? I mean really, you only need to do a few things right to make it work: a decent villain, fun one-liners, big explosions, a gorgeous woman, and that’s about it. The action genre is
the easiest...

Pros: action.
Cons: made in the first place so people like me could review it.

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever has taken the cake - it makes The Church of Scientology's Battlefield Earth look good. Congratulations Ecks - you get one star just for that (okay - so Epinions' won't let me rate a movie, no stars).
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Pros: See Review
Cons: See Review

When a secret weapon that can kill a person through use of a micro-assassin robot being inserted into the bloodstream is stolen, the FBI turns to Agent Jeremiah Ecks (Antonio Banderas). Ecks doesn’t seem to care much about his mission, and neither do the...

Pros: lots of action
Cons: too much action, more cars explode than Lucy Liu has dialogue

I wanted to scrape my eyes out after seeing Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, it’s that bad. No wonder why the director went only by the name “Kaos” in the credits. But chaos doesn’t even begin to describe the nature of this abomination.

Agent Ecks...

Pros: a few well choreographed fight scenes
Cons: the rest of the film

I will start by saying that I always have and always will be a fan of action films. Ever since I was a child I have been entranced by the thrills and heart-pounding excitement that only an action film could provide. Even mediocre ones. However, every...

Pros: Tried to be more than just action, Lucy Liu
Cons: Ended up as melodrama instead, confusing plot

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is a movie where the embellishments to the "action" genre ended up making the movie LESS likable, not more. It could have been a standard action movie, with good vs. bad and people would have watched it. But no. They just had to...

Pros: great backround music and lots of explotions :)
Cons: gets confusing at times but you start to catch up near the end

I saw this movie Ballistic because I knew it would have some good action but I thought it terrible reality. To my surprise I was only half right, the reality wasn't all that bad. There wasn't that much lines from Lucy Liu but instead lots of action...

Pros: Great, mindless fun....
Cons: ...is still mindless.

The previews looked great. The commercials on TV looked great.

Then my friends started watching the movie. And they told me to avoid it or wait for it on DVD.

But hey, I was curious. Could it really be that bad? I was warned that...

Pros: Lucy Liu is kinda hot, I guess. . .
Cons: Entirely too much to list here. Please see review body.

It's easy to say that a movie sucks without stopping to consider the huge effort required to create a really good movie. It takes a good script, a group of dedicated and talented actors, strong direction by a competent director, and and a host of other...