Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

R

2002

1h 31m

Action

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Haunted by the mysterious death of his wife, Jeremiah Ecks (Antonio Banderas) has become a recluse, but the former FBI manhunter is blackmailed back into service to track down an unstoppable ex-DIA operative, code-named Sever (Lucy Liu), who has kidnapped the young son of the head of a secret committee of international security agencies.

Critics Consensus

A startlingly inept film, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever offers overblown, wall-to-wall action without a hint of wit, coherence, style, or originality.

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Matt Singer

ScreenCrush

01/29/2019

4/10

I'm having a hard time believing the words as I type them but ... it's not that bad.

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Jocelyn Noveck

Associated Press

09/15/2014

For many viewers, the big question may be not whether Ecks and Sever will get together, or why they are fighting in the first place, but why am I sitting here, anyway?

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Keith Phipps

AV Club

09/15/2014

An action film starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu, Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever looks like a video-game promo, has a story that plays like the fifth episode of a struggling syndicated action show, and feels like a headache waiting to happen.

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William Bibbiani

Consequence

09/20/2022

I guess not every bad movie has a cult following in its future. Some of them are just kinda bad.

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Micheal Compton

Bowling Green Daily News

11/15/2019

If you must see Ecks vs. Sever, just go bang your head against the wall for an hour and a half. It would be the same effect.

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Michael Sragow

Baltimore Sun

09/15/2014

1/4

Kaos is so in love with pyrotechnics -- and so arrogant in his assumptions about his audience -- that in the first few minutes, he presents one critical car explosion without explanation, then has his characters discuss another one.

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Hank D

Oct 20

there is nothing good about this why would anyone willingly watch this this is just the pinnacle of horrific filmmaking ewwwwww it is just terrible negative 1 out of ten Hank* dalheim 11 years old

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Finley J

Oct 19

This was the best movie I have ever seen I understand why everyone loves it and this is just perfect.

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Joaquin A

Oct 4

This was hard to watch. Lucy's performance is horrific and she shows. no emotions. This was a waste of time and im very glad it got a 0. It should have got a -1 if anything

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Ricardo C

Sep 22

Boy, did I really want this to be a good movie; after all, it has great actors. An hour and a half later, I realized I'll never get back the time I spent watching it, and I wanted to cry. The film promises an epic confrontation between two forces on opposing sides of the law. The result, however, is a combination of wooden characters and formulaic action scenes. Just watch if you're interested in masochism in one of its slower forms.

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Sep 4

Is this the best movie ever made? Not at all. We all rooted for the Snider version of the Justice League, if only we could've seen the version Kaos wanted with Jean Reno and without the Franchise Pictures shenanigans... Because of that, I can't rate it as what other people did.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Aug 19

Success in 1 hour and 31 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $14,300,000.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Synopsis

Haunted by the mysterious death of his wife, Jeremiah Ecks (Antonio Banderas) has become a recluse, but the former FBI manhunter is blackmailed back into service to track down an unstoppable ex-DIA operative, code-named Sever (Lucy Liu), who has kidnapped the young son of the head of a secret committee of international security agencies.

Director: Wych Kaosayananda
Producer: Wych Kaosayananda, Elie Samaha, Chris Lee, Andrew Stevens
Screenwriter: Alan B. McElroy
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Franchise Pictures, Chris Lee Productions
Rating: R (Strong Violence)
Genre: Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 20, 2002, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 1, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA): $14.3M
Runtime: 1h 31m
Sound Mix: Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Stereo, Surround, SDDS, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)