Ballistic - Ecks vs Sever
Action movies should be fun - for, unpretentious entertainment. Experience of monitoring must be imbibing akin to a cocktail of adrenaline and testosterone. Despite numerous bombings, shooting, the martial arts fight scenes-expansion, as any of its rivals, defense missed the point. This grim, grim picture is not fun. This chore to sit through, with all the incredible, noisy fireworks is not able to alleviate the mood.
The limited area is not more than a pretext for the Director Kaos (real name: Wych Kaosayananda - is not difficult to understand why he cut it) blow up things. A lot of things. Why rip apart an empty wagon when you can do it ten? Why settle for a few flame when you can have raging hell? Why go for a few explosions when you can get a full-blown mushroom cloud?
Antonio Banderas plays Jeremiah Ecks, ex-FBI agent in dire need of shave and haircut. It holds its days and nights drinking and being surly to anyone who comes near him. It seems that he lost his wife (Talisa Soto), the explosion (what else?) Seven years ago, and he had not yet received it. Along comes his old boss, Julio Martin (Miguel Sandoval) with the sudden news - his wife was not dead. She has a new identity and married to the powerful and rich Robert Gant (Gregg Henry), which is currently trying to smuggle electronic devices murder (it can be injected under the skin and cause a heart attack, when activated by remote) in Vancouver . Ecks to continue his wife puts it on the hit list of the current DIA agent, Ross (Ray Park, without Darth Maul makeup), and in conflict with a former agent Sever (Lucy Liu), who is out to kill Gant.
There is not so much in the way of “Ecks against North battle, as the subtitle of the film bamboozles the audience believe. Indeed, after the initial confrontation, the two end up working side by side, as their goal, virtually the same: to stop Gant and rescue the child uses it as a mule for his murder electronic devices. For most of the film, the Ecks and / or North against a bunch of nameless, faceless surrogates - only near the end when they have to finish two Big Bad Guys - Ross and Gant.
In the film, downbeat plot - about a mother seeking to avenge the deaths of children - this is accompanied by its bleak and gloomy setting down (almost every scene takes place at night in the rain, or both). Lucy Liu gives reliable indicators as emotionless killer whose icy exterior, barely concealing a cauldron of anger, but it goes through the entire film without once smiling. Almost the same could be said of Antonio Banderas, whose sunny grin equally lacking. Regarding the comic - relief makes a witty one liner count? At least there are some visual pleasure - it is impressive to see Liu Banderas and acting cool, and backlit in a hell.
If the only reason to see the thriller is to watch rather explosions, people dodging a hail of bullets, and a few spicy martial arts fight that occupy higher than feet high camp, you are likely to be satisfied in defence. Indeed, the film is so absorbed in accordance effect Factor great that he rarely pauses for more than a few minutes to provide exposure necessary to advance the plot (which may be why there are times when the details become confused). Unfortunately, the only thing missing is fun. Many people die in violent acts, movies, but with the help of one meeting should not feel as participation in the funeral.
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