Back to the drawing boards on this one

Ballistic looked like so much fun in the trailers, but it turned out to be completely devoid of anything remotely resembling fun, with a convoluted plot and lame characters - I literally didn't care about anyone in the film, including the little boy (and that's sad). Antonio Banderas, who is capable of great action performances (I'm thinking of Desperado in particular) seemed like he was in a dense fog in all of his scenes, and Lucy Liu did a great imitation of a robot. The villian actually had more life than all the other characters combined - at least he sneered with some definitive pizazz.