This is a bad bad movie. For example, everything said in the trailer is wrong. They are not sworn enemies, for a big chunk of the movie they don't even know about each other, and the whole "micro device" thing is a pretty small plot point. Also, every second that could be considered remotely interesting is in that trailer. In that 2 minutes and 28 seconds you saw pretty much every car accident and explosion.
The character development is weaker than an old man's piss stream. Not enough time is spent on anyone's back story for us to give a shit about what they are doing in the present. It's like "Oh, she is doing this because she once had a kid? I must have sneezed and missed the 2-second flash back of her holding a baby."
The director, Wych Kaosayananda, seemed to take all his directing cues from mid-90s TV action shows. It was as if he had taken all the aerial shots from Baywatch, removed all the bikini babes, the color, the sun and the fun, leaving us with dull gray shots of down town Vancouver, B.C.
The actions sequences felt very stilted and choreographed. It was like someone had taken highly skilled fighters and made them fight while encased by lime jello.
Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu play the leads, but there is only so much an actor can do with an awful script and an inexperienced director. It's hard to tell if their acting contributed to a lousy production or if a lousy production affected their acting, either way you get no sense of emotion from either of them or any other actor for that matter.
Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever is a bad bad movie. If one or two people had put in a lot less effort it could have been a good bad movie (e.g., one liners so corny they make you laugh, fight scenes you can mock because you can see they aren't hitting each other, etc., etc.) and if one or two people had put in an insane amount of effort it could have been a slightly okay movie.
One star, one shameful star
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