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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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For a movie with so much fire, this one totally lacks heat.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
09/19/02
E! Online
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The movie may be called Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, but it could've been called Audience vs. Dozing Off.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
09/20/02
San Diego Union-Tribune
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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

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

Ballistic may remind you of John Woo -- without the coherence.

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09/19/02
Andy Klein
Andy Klein
New Times

Eckstraordinarily lame and Severely boring.

Full Review Source: Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah) | comment Comment
09/19/02
Audrey Rock-Richardson
Audrey Rock-Richardson
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)

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

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.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Today | comment Comment
09/18/02
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today

This is a forgettable picture, with the sad fact that with a little more effort and a veteran’s hand, this film could’ve easily been a more compelling distraction.

Full Review Source: Modamag.com | comment Comment
09/22/02
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
Modamag.com

Mindless and boring martial arts and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling storyline.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
09/19/02
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

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.'

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
09/19/02
Bruce Fretts
Bruce Fretts
Entertainment Weekly

...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'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

Kaos has promise as a visual stylist, but this movie has no story or characters.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
09/20/02
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

A fine achievement in stupidity and dullness despite plenty of explosions.

Full Review Source: Miami Herald | comment Comment
09/20/02
Connie Ogle
Connie Ogle
Miami Herald

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

Is “Ballistic” worth the price of admission? Absolutely not. It sucked. Would I see it again? Please see previous answer.

Full Review Source: Broomfield Enterprise | comment Comment
09/27/02
Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi
Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi
Broomfield Enterprise

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

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)
 
 
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