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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)

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Average Rating: 2.6/10
Reviews Counted: 108
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A startlingly inept film, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever offers overblown, wall-to-wall action without a hint of wit, coherence, style, or originality.

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Average Rating: 2.4/10
Critic Reviews: 30
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A startlingly inept film, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever offers overblown, wall-to-wall action without a hint of wit, coherence, style, or originality.

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Two former government agents square off as they search for the most deadly new weapon on Earth in this white-knuckle thriller. Sever (Lucy Liu) was once a top agent with the Defense Intelligence Agency, but she quit when her son was killed in a bungled raid organized by Gant (Gregg Henry), and has sworn to take vengeance against him and his colleagues. When Sever learns that Gant and his team are in possession of a remarkable new weapon -- a microscopic device injected into the victim's

Dec 24, 2002

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Between explosions there is enough room left for only minimal character development.

January 5, 2007
New York Daily News
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Director Wych Kaosayananda -- or Kaos, to you -- is stupendously inept, unable even to properly light a combat sequence.

January 5, 2007 Full Review Source: Boston Globe
Boston Globe
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Before seeing this film I couldn't understand why the producers had given it a subtitle; afterward I realized Ecks vs. Sever was probably the full script.

January 5, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader
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Ballistic is a generic blur of metallic blue and fireball orange set to the contrapuntal sounds of throbbing techno and eardrum-puncturing noise.

October 20, 2002 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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One of the worst movies of the year.

September 23, 2002 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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Enough to make a critic go ballistic.

September 20, 2002 Full Review Source: Washington Post
Washington Post
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This explosion movie is a complete bomb.

September 23, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

Liu and Banderas are wasted in a film that felt like a cheesy low budget action flick, leaving a sour taste with plot holes galore, clichés, senseless violence, and an incoherent script to top it all off.

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment (1)
Cinema Crazed

Banderas mopes through this hideous and unintelligible enterprise like a bloodhound with a hangover, while Liu elects to look cool in leather in lieu of a performance.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile

For all the sundered families, bereaved mothers and mourning spouses, there's not a shred of genuine feeling in the entire film.

January 5, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Sadistic: Gratuitous Vs. Arbitrary.

February 1, 2004 Full Review Source: FilmStew.com

Como descrever um filme que se preocupa apenas com suas explosões, e não com o roteiro, com a direção, a edição ou as atuações? Já sei: é uma bomba!

December 4, 2003
Cinema em Cena

A career low for both Liu and Banderas.

August 1, 2003 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine

The backyard battles you staged with your green plastic army men were more exciting and almost certainly made more sense.

June 26, 2003 Full Review

Wanton gunfire and witless good guys saturate this sadly scripted waste of hard-earned movie money.

May 20, 2003
Palo Alto Weekly

One of the worst films of 2002.

April 2, 2003 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope
Laramie Movie Scope

Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu, have you no pride? Have you no standards? Have you no shame? Don't you pay attention to what's written on the papers you're signing?

February 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Quips Online
Film Quips Online

Kaosayananda's approach to this thunderous and over-indulgent stylish stinker is quite simplistic: load up on excessive explosions that's meant to give a personality to a straining and exceedingly moronic martial arts motion picture.

February 3, 2003 Full Review Source: TheWorldJournal.com
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one of the worst movies of all time. wow... garbage.
September 18, 2010
Albert Kim

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A great Action Flick.
December 12, 2009
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