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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)

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Reviews Counted:107

Fresh:0

Rotten:107

Average Rating:2.6/10

Consensus: A startlingly inept film, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever offers overblown, wall-to-wall action without a hint of wit, coherence, style, or originality.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong violence

Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:Sep 20, 2002 Wide

Box Office: $14,235,059

Synopsis: In the mystifying opening sequence of BALLISTIC: ECKS VS. SEVER, a double kidnapping takes place on a rainy night in Vancouver with a minimal amount of wasted time and a maximum amount of violence.... In the mystifying opening sequence of BALLISTIC: ECKS VS. SEVER, a double kidnapping takes place on a rainy night in Vancouver with a minimal amount of wasted time and a maximum amount of violence. A little boy is picked up at the airport by his mother (Talisa Soto), whose car is stopped minutes later by thugs who steal the boy and say they're taking him to his father. Rounding the corner, the thugs see a car explode in front of them, and a dump truck smashes into a wall of other cars, spraying fire. A hooded martial arts expert takes out the thugs with some impressive kicks and swirls, then grabs the boy and leaves. Secret agent Sever (Lucy Liu) is the kidnapper here, an angry, heavily armed nut who literally goes ballistic for unknown reasons. Using automatic weapons and other highly explosive artillery, she annihilates at least a hundred policeman in the next scene, outside a shopping mall. A retired secret agent, Ecks (Antonio Banderas), is the only man who can stop her, and when he does--temporarily--the two join forces against the real culprit, Robert Gant (Gregg Henry). Gant has crafted a dangerous assassination weapon that triggers death at the push of a button once it is injected into its victim's bloodstream. And that weapon is living inside the little boy. To save him, and stop the weapon from being used again, Ecks and Sever must get Gant. BALLISTIC: ECKS VS. SEVER is a super-violent nonstop action extravaganza with a high-octane musical score by Don Davis. It is directed by Kaos. [More]

Starring: Lucy Liu, Antonio Banderas, Gregg Henry, Ray Park

Starring: Lucy Liu, Antonio Banderas, Gregg Henry, Ray Park, Talisa Soto, Miguel Sandoval

Director: Kaos

Director: Kaos
Screenwriter: Alan McElroy
Producer: Elie Samaha, Chris Lee, Andrew Stevens, Kaos
Composer: Don Davis
Studio: Warner Bros.

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Actually, not as bad as the reviews say; still "solidly average" does not a red tomato buy.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Report Card | comment Comment
10/03/02
Ross Anthony
Ross Anthony
Hollywood Report Card

The story would qualify as your basic spy opera... if there was any feeling to it, but the film has no more engagement than a big-screen video game

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
09/21/02
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

This grim, joyless motion picture is anything but fun. It's a chore to sit through, with all the blazing, noisy pyrotechnics proving unable to lighten the mood.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
09/19/02
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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Between explosions there is enough room left for only minimal character development.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
01/05/07
Jami Bernard
Jami Bernard
New York Daily News
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One of the most incompetent big-budget action movies I’ve ever seen.

Full Review Source: SPLICEDWire | comment Comment
09/19/02
Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire

To the civilized mind, a movie like Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever is more of an ordeal than an amusement.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
09/19/02
Jay Boyar
Jay Boyar
Orlando Sentinel

One of the dumbest, least entertaining films I’ve seen this year.

Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada) | comment Comment
09/30/02
Josef Braun
Josef Braun
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

There are two good things about Ballistic ... The rest of the movie, unfortunately, is all gaping narrative holes, uninspiring action scenes and repetitive slow-motion camerawork.

Full Review Source: Citysearch | comment Comment
09/19/02
Jordana Brown
Jordana Brown
Citysearch

Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever has to be one of the worst films ever made. Sadly, you almost have to see it to believe it.

Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
09/20/02
Guylaine Cadorette
Guylaine Cadorette
Hollywood.com

...The makers of Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever [take] so many of our favorite things and [make] such a wretched movie out of them.

Full Review Source: HoleCity.com | comment Comment
10/14/02
Catherine Cantieri
Catherine Cantieri
HoleCity.com

It hopes to obscure its awfulness with its volume and, failing that, it hopes to dress up its stupidity with backlit shots of a woman communing with a captive manatee.

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
09/19/02
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

By the time the show ended I was laughing pretty hard just thinking about how the movie made no sense while it was trying to be so serious.

Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | comment Comment
10/02/02
Jeffrey Chen
Jeffrey Chen
Window to the Movies

For years, people have joked about an action movie that might eliminate plot altogether and simply cut to the pyrotechnics. Someone has finally done it.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
09/20/02
Mike Clark
Mike Clark
USA Today
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If Liu even dreamed of whupping Michelle Yeoh, martial-arts star of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, she should wake up and apologize.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
09/20/02
Stephen Cole
Stephen Cole
Globe and Mail
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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.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
10/20/02
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
Los Angeles Times
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It's like going into a gunfight with a half-empty clip - it may seem okay in the beginning, but you aren't going to be happy with the results.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
09/20/02
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

Ballistic is all over the map, a series of overwrought-yet -underachieving action set pieces punctuated by a muddled story line.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
09/19/02
Gary Dowell
Gary Dowell
Dallas Morning News
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Its murky settings, contemptuous plotting and charmless characters add up to a film in which nothing counts more than death, preferably a spectacularly fiery death.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
09/26/02
Daniel Eagan
Daniel Eagan
Film Journal International

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is an ungainly mess, submerged in mayhem, occasionally surfacing for cliches.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
09/20/02
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Ballistic offers little beyond what you'd find in a typical subpar Hollywood action film.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
09/19/02
Robert K. Elder
Robert K. Elder
Chicago Tribune
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