Darnit

[andrewducker]

I saw the trailer for Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever, the new action movie with Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu. Being a fan of action movies, and specifically action movies with Antonio Banderas in them (see Desperado, for instance), I was quite excited. The trailer looked pretty cool.

However, I then saw this.

Damn.

Snippet from the Ebert review:

The movie ends in a stock movie location I thought had been retired: A Steam and Flame Factory, where the combatants stalk each other on catwalks and from behind steel pillars, while the otherwise deserted factory supplies vast quantities of flame and steam.

Comments

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Heh. The movie had been delayed in production so long, that a second related video game is already coming out. >,<

I'll daresay the vidgame is slightly more successful than that movie will ever be.

[arkhamrefugee.livejournal.com]

Sad to say I didn't even get the benefit of that review. I went in based solely on the movie trailer, which was REALLY neat looking. And the movie totally sucked. Like 100% no good. I told a friend of mine, "It would have been a really good hard-boiled action flick... if it had any action in it."

Hollywood is getting better at trailers and worse at movies.