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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Wreck it T

@wreckit7042 May 23

I don’t what to say about Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever it is probably the worst 2000s I watched last night, it is a stupid action/thriller movie that completely rips off the matrix, the editing was terrible and the dialogue of the script was absolutely awful, I found out the director is Wych Kaosayananda and apparently he makes bad because I have no idea who this is, I can see why it has a 0%.

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Oli W

@RT45004301 Apr 15

I can't rate this low enough. If I could give 0 stars, I would. I watched this at the cinema when it came out but had no choice but to walk out part way through. Everything, from the action, the script, the plot, the acting, the sets, music.... is diabolical.

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Jorge A

@RT50429328 Apr 10

Easily one of the worst movies of all time. The acting, the action, the story is all awful, clearly nobody cared. The only minor positive I can give it is one or two decently choreograph hand to hand combat, which was the only things that kept me from shutting it off. Still, there are way better action movies out there. Unless you want to see a truly incompetent film, don't waste your time with it.

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Adeeb B

@notjimmyjohnson Mar 16

this movie is so bad it makes me hate this movie so much then ever I watch for the first time and I know it's still had bad acting bad everything and it's the worst movie of 2000s, 2010s and 2020s I ever seen in my life

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john skyniel L

@theROTTENsky Mar 9

I'd rather watch a Serbian film than this

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Sam A

@RT78318624 Feb 20

This movie worst then the last airbender 2010

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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)