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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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I'd truly hoped that Ballistic would be a kicky so-bad- it's-good guilty pleasure. But it's too flat, stale, confusing and lazy.

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09/19/02
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Gives new meaning to the word incoherent and provides as much excitement as my big ass.

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09/19/02
JoBlo
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Mindless and boring martial arts and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling storyline.

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09/19/02
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

A shambles of a movie--visually unattractive, unbearably loud and utterly silly...its hilarity is completely unintentional.

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09/19/02
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

Kaos was apparently aiming for a coolly stylized, straight-faced take on Spy vs. Spy. As Maxwell Smart used to say, 'Missed it by that much.'

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09/19/02
Bruce Fretts
Bruce Fretts
Entertainment Weekly

Most new movies have a bright sheen. Some, like Ballistic, arrive stillborn... looking like the beaten, well-worn video box cover of seven years into the future.

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09/18/02
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today

Why have a plot, characters, dialogue? Maybe the sequel will be called Simplistic: Bullets vs. Humans.

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09/17/02
David Hunter
David Hunter
Hollywood Reporter
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A 90 minute cacophony of bullets, bombs, and other things that go boom, delivered without the tiniest thread of excitement.

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09/16/02
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
 
 
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