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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)

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Reviews Counted:107

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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.

Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

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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A career low for both Liu and Banderas.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
08/01/03
Empire Magazine
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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.

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
04/29/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
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.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
10/18/08
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Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
03/10/07
Susan Stark
Susan Stark
Detroit News

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

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
01/05/07
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

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

Director Wych Kaosayananda -- or Kaos, to you -- is stupendously inept, unable even to properly light a combat sequence.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
01/05/07
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe

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.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
01/05/07
J. R. Jones
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader

Sadistic: Gratuitous Vs. Arbitrary.

Full Review Source: FilmStew.com | comment Comment
02/01/04
Todd Gilchrist
Todd Gilchrist
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!

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12/04/03
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

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

Full Review Source: State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) | comment Comment
06/26/03
Nick Rogers
Nick Rogers
State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)

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

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
05/20/03
Tyler Hanley
Tyler Hanley
Palo Alto Weekly

One of the worst films of 2002.

Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | comment Comment
04/02/03
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
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?

Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | comment Comment
02/08/03
John R. McEwen
John R. McEwen
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.

Full Review Source: TheWorldJournal.com | comment Comment
02/03/03
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
TheWorldJournal.com

Lucy Liu has the silent, exotic, Asian assassin thing down cold in a lackluster action movie with aimless fighting, wimpy villains, and a lame techno soundtrack.

Full Review Source: Radio Free Entertainment | comment Comment
01/13/03
Andrew Manning
Andrew Manning
Radio Free Entertainment

You'll have to be a cryptologist to figure out who's working for whom, and you'll have to boast the patience of Job to care.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
12/10/02
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

A film which proves 'more' means most certainly 'less' and like a video game its definitely not worth spending more than a few cents on.

Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment 1 Comment
11/26/02
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

Du grand grand vide que le nombre d'explosions n'arrive pas à camoufler.

Full Review Source: Showbizz.net | comment Comment
11/16/02
Nicolas Lacroix
Nicolas Lacroix
Showbizz.net

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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