Ballistic

"Fist of Judo?" Former "Flash Gordon", Sam J. Jones, mixed-up mobster mayhem, and menacing, muscular "maidens" in the tepid tale of a vengeful vixen vying to vindicate her framed father. Radical anti-male feminists will revel in the scene wherein a beautiful bodybuilder babe beats up, bashes, and breaks the neck of a bawdy bad guy brazenly expecting amorous affection! Blend of Black Belt blandness and predictable police pap needs to pound its fist and demand more depth!

BALLISTIC is a typical B-movie action flick of the mid 1990s starring Marjean Holden as a tough cop on the trail of a drug kingpin played by ol' FLASH GORDON himself, Sam Jones. It starts out as a routine cop investigation movie before seguing into a fight flick halfway through. The cast is pretty decent here, with old-timers Richard Roundtree and Charles Napier popping up, and both a young Michael Jai White and Cory Everson (from DOUBLE IMPACT) impress in the fighting stakes. The action's fun at least and you could do worse.

With a box cover right at home from the 90's, 'Ballistic' was everything I thought it would be. A fairly formula b-movie flick with some over the top acting, decent action. It's not the kind of thing that will knock your socks off. Don't come for butt kicking females alone, but if you have a fondness for low budget fisticuffs it'll satisfy.

Jesse Gavin (Marjean Holden) the daughter of a framed cop (Richard Roundtree) is a detective herself. Equally juggling try to free her dad and being taken seriously puts her in the sights of "businessman" Nick Braden (Sam Jones). Told to stay away by Cpt. Underwood (Charles Napier) but knows he's at the center of everything. Question is can he be brought down without falling into a trap.

Familiar faces Napier, Roundtree & Jones put in good supporting work. The latter of which chews scenery like no other. Joel Beeson makes for a martial arts bf, but catch Michael Jai White kicking butt in an earlier role and no stranger to dtv pics James Lew, Vincent Klyn. Holden as a hero comes off likable and puts in two classy semi-nude scenes. Plus Corinna Everson who stood out in 'Double Impact' as a female baddie dishes it out more here as one too.

As I recap my review it dawns on me how much the cast helped. Holden is solid, but all the known faces do wonders. 'Ballistic' is generic in most regards. Underground fight tourney, corruption, family ties & revenge, but fun fights, gunplay make it alright if this material is up your alley.

This is a really great action film. Being in Australia, the movie down here was called "Fist of Justice", not Ballastic. It really did have some great action scenes, when the girls face off against each other in a death match, and the drop-dead gorgeous Marjean Holden wins, and when Sam the Fighting Man defeats the other guy in the test, and I think the Gun-Fight between Marjean's on-screen father and the Asian guy was also good. I can say that I recommend this movie to anyone, a typical ending, good prevails over evil, but the action is what scores this movie points. There are some adult scenes in this movie, that is all OK, some other great movies have had such scenes, such as Basic Instinct... the big bonus this movie contained was that it was a female/male action movie, not just based on single sex-based action movie, like Charlie's Angels (Ladies) or Die Hard (Males) - this movie is more broken down and a little like street fighter in the gender base. I give it 7/10

Quite a decent low-budget action movie which focuses on female characters for a charge. Anybody with preconceived notions about "The Weaker Sex" may have to change their tune after watching statuesque cop Marjean Holden duking it out with ruthless muscle lady Cory Everson in a standout fight sequence that took all day to film.

And by the way SC50, I met Marjean in 1999 and, as well as being funny and charming, she was definitely NOT chunky!