Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

2002 "Your most dangerous enemies are the friends you've double-crossed."
3.7| 1h31m| R| en| More Info
Released: 20 September 2002 Released
Producted By: Warner Bros. Pictures
Country: United States of America
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Jonathan Ecks, an FBI agent, realizes that he must join with his lifelong enemy, Agent Sever, a rogue DIA agent with whom he is in mortal combat, in order to defeat a common enemy. That enemy has developed a "micro-device" that can be injected into victims in order to kill them at will.

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CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
gjutrep This is a film where I want to ask the leading actors how embarrassed they felt when they watched it for the first time.The problem of the film is that it seems to be made only by the stunt and pyrotechnic department. The story telling is so bad that for the first half of the film it seems that there is no story at all. The film tries to be clever and unfolds the story late. But at that point it became so boring that it was hard to stay interested. The script is just bad.If someone likes a bunch of action scenes, great. But no action film works without a good story and a good rhythm to tell this story. However, even the action sequences are destroyed by awful music. Most of the time I thought: Why am I watching this? What is the purpose of this scene or this motorcycle chase? This is a film nobody has to see. A film full of action but without any thrill or excitement. There is no storytelling, no real filmmaking. It lacks the heart of a good film.PSSome people say that this is an action movie and therefore delivers what we can expect. But it is a poor action movie. As for the actors, there is no room to shine and to give the characters some depth. One could ask if they actually has a script and a plot or just a collection of action film stereotypes to run through.
SnoopyStyle Defense Intelligence Agency director Robert Gant's son Michael is kidnapped by rogue agent Sever (Lucy Liu). FBI agent Jeremiah Ecks (Antonio Banderas) had left the agency after the death of his wife Rayne. He is reinstated to take down Sever. He is partnered with Canadian intelligence agent Harry Lee (Terry Chen) in Vancouver. It turns out that Gant had stolen experimental nano-weapon Softkill which he injected into Michael. Ecks is arrested after a long gun fight and then Sever breaks him out. She reunites Ecks with his wife Rayne (Talisa Soto) who turned out to have fake her death and married Gant under new name Vinn. On top of that, Michael is his son. Ecks and Sever must join forces to defeat Gant.The dialog is clunky. The story is a convoluted mess. Setting the location in Vancouver is a mistake. It's not a sexy locale. It's generally boring without the action. The action style is mostly older. A large amount of money is wasted in this obsolete action style. One can't deny that lots of things get blown up. It does bring happiness to the destructive child in me. The only saving grace of the old fashion explosions and crashes is that it's real. A lot of other things are wasted. Lucy Liu in her Matrix getup is wasted. The whole thing is a waste and the title is horrible.
MartinHafer "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" is not just a dumb title for a film, it's also a really, really dumb film. It's the sort of horribly written film chock full of non-stop action that seems to be written for folks who found the Rambo films too intellectually taxing. One stunt after another after another after--all strung together with conspiracy film clichés--that, in a nutshell, is this film.The film starts with the jaded FBI agent (Antonio Banderas--who seems half asleep in this role) being forced to rejoin....oh never mind, you know how this crappy clichés will go. And ultimately, he'll be force to join his old nemesis, the super-dangerous Lucy Liu (!!) to fight the powers of not-niceness that threaten to control the destiny of the Free World. And so, to do this, they punch and kick, blow up stuff and kill. This is punctuated by kidnappings, mayhem and conspiracies--none of which seem anything more than plot devices.Overall, not a lot to provide interest to anyone--even stupid people. Silly--just the sort of action film you might expect Jethro Bodine to make--if he was real and had his uncle's millions to finance this dud. I could imagine him directing this thing and shouting "Hoo-Wee--we gots lots of double-naught spies!!".
Rosettes ...........it even has a thin story line, it even has a believable subplot, ..........................but it's more of a movie for the boom and the brass flying than for anything else. Further, a movie that depends on a video game for recognition can lose potential audience members. I've never heard of this game "Ecks vs. Sever" before today. Picked up the movie more for its femme fatale classification.Hence, those three factors, of boom and guns, of based on a video game, of good looking babes, means that this movie was probably made for the adolescent male.Come to think of it, aside from the femme fatale, the injured lover, and the hooker on the street, I can't recall any other woman in this movie with a speaking part.It's okay; the photography is wonderful and some of the angles are fantastic; it's 91 minutes of non stop action without really that much blood although for the amount of bullets flying at the hero and heroine, one would expect that at least a stray shot might hit.But it is hardly memorable. Major supporting characters are there then disappear from the rest of the movie. It's an endless supply of professional Federal SWAT who don't stand a chance against the heros and as the movie moves on, turn out to be quite the amateurs. And while the villains probably succeed in getting the audience to hate them, the heros fail in getting the audience to love them. There is no sympathy for the innocent and they might as well just be a picture on the wall.