A career low for both Liu and Banderas.
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08/01/03
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 103 Fresh: 0 Rotten:103 Average Rating: 2.6/10
Consensus:
Wall-to-wall action without a hint of wit or plot.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
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. A little boy is picked up at the airport by his mother (Talisa Soto), whose car is stopped minutes... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Lucy Liu, Antonio Banderas, Gregg Henry, Ray Park, Talisa Soto
Director: Kaos
Screenwriter: Alan McElroy
Producer: Elie Samaha, Chris Lee, Andrew Stevens, Kaos
Composer: Don Davis
Screenwriter: Alan McElroy
Producer: Elie Samaha, Chris Lee, Andrew Stevens, Kaos
Composer: Don Davis
Reviews
Top Critic
For all the sundered families, bereaved mothers and mourning spouses, there's not a shred of genuine feeling in the entire film.
01/05/07
Between explosions there is enough room left for only minimal character development.
01/05/07
Director Wych Kaosayananda -- or Kaos, to you -- is stupendously inept, unable even to properly light a combat sequence.
01/05/07
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.
01/05/07
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!
12/04/03
The backyard battles you staged with your green plastic army men were more exciting and almost certainly made more sense.
06/26/03
Wanton gunfire and witless good guys saturate this sadly scripted waste of hard-earned movie money.
05/20/03
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?
02/08/03
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.
02/03/03
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.
01/13/03
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.
12/10/02
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.
11/26/02
Du grand grand vide que le nombre d'explosions n'arrive pas à camoufler.
11/16/02
Ballistic is a generic blur of metallic blue and fireball orange set to the contrapuntal sounds of throbbing techno and eardrum-puncturing noise.
10/20/02
Top Critic
...The makers of Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever [take] so many of our favorite things and [make] such a wretched movie out of them.
10/14/02
Actually, not as bad as the reviews say; still "solidly average" does not a red tomato buy.
10/03/02
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