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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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Comic-book logic in action movies has seemingly given way to video-game logic which is almost no logic at all and spooling out Ballistic's inane, convoluted plot is a waste of time.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
09/20/02
Rob Lowman
Rob Lowman
Los Angeles Daily News

At best, Ballistic is a movie that wants to be a video game. At worst, it's a colossal waste of time.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
09/20/02
Louis B. Hobson
Louis B. Hobson
Jam! Movies

In addition to sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic history, Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever also features terrible, banal dialogue; convenient, hole-ridden plotting; superficial characters and a rather dull, unimaginative car chase.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
09/20/02
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Whether it's the worst movie of 2002, I can't say for sure: Memories of Rollerball have faded, and I skipped Country Bears. But this new jangle of noise, mayhem and stupidity must be a serious contender for the title.

Full Review Source: Charlotte Observer | comment Comment
09/20/02
Lawrence Toppman
Lawrence Toppman
Charlotte Observer

Just plain silly.

Full Review Source: Supercala.com | comment Comment
09/20/02
John Venable
John Venable
Supercala.com

"Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" is one of those movies that you should see tucked away and the bottom of the New Release section in Blockbuster where all the other straight-to-video, Z-grade explosion flicks are kept.

Full Review Source: Katrillion.com | comment Comment
09/20/02
John Oliver
John Oliver
Katrillion.com
N/R

...brainless, idiotic action, and somehow still not any fun.

Full Review Source: Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) | comment Comment
09/20/02
Josh Larsen
Josh Larsen
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)

I'm guessing the director is a magician. After all, he took three minutes of dialogue, 30 seconds of plot and turned them into a 90-minute movie that feels five hours long.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
09/20/02
Bill Muller
Bill Muller
Arizona Republic
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I don't even care that there's no plot in this Antonio Banderas-Lucy Liu faceoff. It's still terrible!

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
09/20/02
Andrew O'Hehir
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
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Slow in a strange way -- without energy, without imagination, without urgency.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
09/20/02
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

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

Ecks this one off your must-see list.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
09/20/02
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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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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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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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

So devoid of any kind of intelligible story that it makes films like XXX and Collateral Damage seem like thoughtful treatises

Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
09/20/02
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

The film makers treat this movie like we already know the characters and they need no development.

Full Review Source: KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX) | comment Comment
09/20/02
Danny Minton
Danny Minton
KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX)

Spy-vs.-spy action flick with Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu never comes together.

Full Review Source: Netflix | comment Comment
09/20/02
James Rocchi
James Rocchi
Netflix

For a shoot-'em-up, Ballistic is oddly lifeless.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
09/20/02
Tor Thorsen
Tor Thorsen
Reel.com

If you collected all the moments of coherent dialogue, they still wouldn't add up to the time required to boil a four- minute egg.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
09/19/02
Jan Stuart
Jan Stuart
Newsday
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