...The makers of Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever [take] so many of our favorite things and [make] such a wretched movie out of them.
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.
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.
Reviews for Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Actually, not as bad as the reviews say; still "solidly average" does not a red tomato buy.
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.
Who, exactly, is fighting whom here? Ah, yes, that would be me: fighting off the urge to doze.
More video game than movie, though video games have more interesting characters.
Rank it up there amongst the true wastes of time Hollywood has ever foisted upon an unsuspecting public.
You'll have more fun setting fire to yourself in the parking lot. You'll be more entertained getting hit by a bus.
It’s a deluge of bullets and chop-socky madness devoid of style or purpose.
At every opportunity to do something clever, the film goes right over the edge and kills every sense of believability... all you have left is a no-surprise series of explosions and violence while Banderas looks like he's not trying to laugh at how bad it
Yes, Ballistic is silly. Unfortunately, it's not silly fun unless you enjoy really bad movies.
Is “Ballistic” worth the price of admission? Absolutely not. It sucked. Would I see it again? Please see previous answer.
This movie is bad enough to make you want to go ballistic on Hollywood.
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.
Even by dumb action-movie standards, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is a dumb action movie.
It's not always easy to tell what's going on in this movie which has all the emotional depth of a video game, and the dramatic coherence we associate with the lesser works of Ed Wood.
Boring to an amazing degree -- considering that it's barely 90 minutes long and virtually nonstop gunfire, explosions and car crashes.
... After 90 minutes of mind-numbing explosions, I cheered when a death by electrocution finally broke the monotony.
Maybe you'll be lucky, and there'll be a power outage during your screening so you can get your money back.
The title - insipid as it is - is more interesting than anything that actually appears on screen.
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