Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
This Canadian The Matrix ripoff had a good sense of hiring Don Davis for the music, to cover for the most generic plot possible. The leads have about 100 lines between both of them, but Lucy Liu barely speaks. Antonio Banderas just looks like a sexy John Wick for the whole time.
The plot is a paragraph: evil DIA guy fakes his own death to be able to go rogue, but then also fakes his future wife’s death to spite his rival Banderas, but also fakes Banderas’ death to marry the future wife!
For some reason, two Mercedes have to blow up in that case, I though the first one was enough. His child is actually not his, the father was Banderas all along.
He uses that child to smuggle an assassination nanobot or something, but then a disgruntled employee kidnaps the kid. She is actually saving him, the nanobot will be used to kill the evil guy. Her motivation is being fired for having a kid without her bosses authorising.
All in all, a very leftist plot: bosses shouldn’t intrude on the employees private life, and employees should not work so hard, they should focus on the family. This might be an abusive interpretation of a mini morsel of a plot.
The bulk of the film are slow chases scenes in wet Vancouver roads, massive gun battles in Vancouver landmarks, and smaller gun battles in Vancouver sound stages. How Canadian of them, eh.
The title is already stupid enough without including a freaking colon. At least the music is really cool.
Not sure why this deserves the worst rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
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