Disapointments

Well if you were expecting a simple quick movie than Ballstic might not have been a problem for you... but with a ridiculously misleading title, trailer, and plotline, this movie arguably sucked ass.

First of all, it was 90 minutes long. This is about enough time for some good characterization, an action sequence or two, and a cool final 20 minutes with interesting twists and the good guys winning. HOWEVER, due to a crap screenwriter and an asshead director with no creativity whatsoever, these producers allowed one of the poopiest "thrillrides" possible, and completely wasted their mere 90 minutes on pointless crap. About 25 minutes total of this movie were good, but the other 65 were worthless. What the makers could have done, was add another 30-40 minutes to this flick, and be able to develop some real talented stuff. Lots of WELL-EXPLAINED twists, good characterization, a longer fued between Ecks and Sever, more about the microdevice. Instead they just got bored half way and tried to quicly wrap things up. The special effects were beautiful and it is a shame that the rest sucked.

The R rating restricted many eager 10-16 year olds from seeing this movie. With slightly crap acting and a thin plotline, younger audiences would have been MUCH easier pleased, but instead MPAA decided to go out and get drunk before rating this movie, and gave it a rediculous R rating for "Strong Violence" Honestly, if a movie like Red Dragon is R for the same "reason" and the Ring is PG-13, why the hell does an innocent action film with practically 0 blood and no more action than 007, M:i, or XXX get ruined like this? Legally no teen with protetive parents was allowed to see this movie, and the people that were, had a reason to hate it!

Oh well I think Warner Brothers was able to recover the loss with HP2 (which sucked as well) because the SFX in Ballistic sure as hell beat the ones in Die Another Day, and so obviously they costed a pretty penny. It is a shame that movies have to suck every now and then but it gives a chance for lame people like us to sit around and discuss them. Let me know what you think.

~TXTard