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Ballistic - Ecks vs. Sever (2002)

Antonio Banderas , Lucy Liu , Wych Kaosayananda  |  R |  DVD
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  • Actors: Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu, Talisa Soto, Gregg Henry, Ray Park
  • Directors: Wych Kaosayananda
  • Writers: Alan B. McElroy
  • Producers: Andrew Stevens, Andrew Sugerman, Chris Lee, Dawn Miller, Elie Samaha
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Dubbed: French
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: December 24, 2002
  • Run Time: 91 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (115 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00007CVTH
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,295 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Ballistic - Ecks vs. Sever" on IMDb

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  • HBO First Look: The Making of "Ballistic"
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If you have a hearty appetite for fiery explosions, heavy ordnance, and nonsensical mayhem, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is just for you. This mindless action flick is so wrong-headed that even its ungainly title is inaccurate: as expert assassins on the fringes of government intelligence, FBI agent Ecks (Antonio Banderas) and Defense Intelligence agent Sever (Lucy Liu) aren't battling each other at all. Instead, he's trying to find his missing ex-wife (the stunning but expressionless Talisa Soto) and young son, while she's pursuing an agency turncoat (Gregg Henry) who's stolen the ultimate micro-technology for clandestine killing. United against a common enemy, Ecks and Sever lay waste to half of Vancouver (the film's budget-conscious location), and it all makes as much sense as meatballs on a vegetarian menu. Banderas and Liu look fabulous as corpses pile up around them, but Thai action director Kaos (a.k.a. Wych Kaosayananda) must have confused his nickname with the incomprehensible plot of his movie. --Jeff Shannon

Product Description

This is a story of two spies, who are lifelong adversaries, engaged in a cat-and-mouse hunt. Jonathan Ecks (Banderas) is an FBI agent hunting the other, Sever (Liu) a rogue NSA agent. What they learn, however, while trying to kill each other... is that they might be on the same side, and faced with a threat greater to each other than themselves.

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Have you ever wanted to watch a really really bad movie? Joshua E. Hunsaker  |  39 reviewers made a similar statement
Ecks is another government agent brought in on the case to find Sever and retrieve this device. Alvin Tanhehco  |  21 reviewers made a similar statement
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Not good, but worst movie ever? Not at all. December 10, 2009
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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (Wych Kaosayananda, 2002)

According to[...], Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is the worst-reviewed movie of the past ten years. While I'm certainly not going to defend the movie, I have to say that, like most movies about which things like this are said, this isn't even the worst movie I've seen this week (both Bled and The Bone Snatcher were quite a bit worse than this), but "real" critics (i.e., the ones who get paid for doing this) never end up seeing stuff like that, so for them, this represents the bottom of the barrel. There are times when I envy them. Most recently, while I was watching Bled and The Bone Snatcher.

I'd try to give you some idea of a plot here, but there's really no reason. What this movie is really about is Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu running around and blowing things up. Why this should surprise anyone is entirely beyond me, given that both of them made their names doing exactly this sort of thing, though even Desperado had a stronger storyline to it than this does. But really, if you're going to see a movie like this for plot, story, and character development, you're probably in the wrong place. This is all about things blowing up, and as far as that goes, it does deliver. Some worthwhile fight scenes offset the incredibly corny dialogue and uninspired direction, so if that's all you're looking for, this should be right up your alley. * ˝
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Dumb action flick fails to generate anything... March 4, 2003
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Don't get me wrong, I'm all for abandoning plot for action, but on at least one of two conditions: it must be good action OR it must be a Van Damme movie. "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" is neither. As a matter of fact, it's not even up there with your average Steven Seagal flick. It has no real plot, just plot elements with one-dimensional characters reciting weak dialogue and getting into long, repetitive gunfights. I'm a die-hard fan of dumb action movies, but even this is too void for my tastes. The cast, while consisting of a few admirable talents, can't seem to keep the movie flowing and the action is trite and devoid of originality. As far as the movie scene goes, "Ballistic" is pure fluff. Mindless and without any direction, it is dead on the screen before the title even flashes.
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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars decent special effects, but idiotic, cliched non-story August 14, 2005
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I can't believe that only two years after the big hit, Charlie's Angels, Lucy Liu appeared in this made-in-Canada cheapie.

The story is nonsensical and confusing. The DVD's description says Liu is an NSA agent, but she's with the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency), sort of.

I say "sort of," because the movie's DIA is not the US Pentagon's DIA, but apparently some "shadow government" in Canada that hires Chinese orphans (girls abandoned by their parents in China due to China's "one child" policy), to be ruthless assassins. The characters in the movie talk of a "shadow goverment" and the film is set in Canada, with Canadian cops chasing people, so I guess they mean a Canadian "shadow government."

However, this "shadow government" is legitamate. We know this, because they get cooperation from the police in trying to kill rogue assassin Lucy Liu. Only, this "shadow government" is also evil and illegitamite, because some FBI people, linked to the Canadian police or DIA or whoever, force ex-FBI agent Antonio Banderas out of retirement to find a child that Lucy Liu kidnapped.

Confusing, no?

In the Special Features, the director says, "In my research, I found that there really is a DIA." Clearly, neither he nor the writer have a clue as to what the DIA is. It's a branch of the Pentagon primarily concerned with military intelligence.

Lucy Liu's assassin dresses in Lara Croft fashion, walking the streets of Vancouver in spandex and a cape. In the Special Feature, Liu says she was intrigued that the assassin was a woman, because it added "a whole other dimension" to the role.

What other dimension? The screen has been full of ass-kicking lady spies since The Avenger's Emma Peel, yet people still talk as if it's a new thing.

The special effects are okay but mostly the usual, with the exception of a police sniper falling onto a car roof. Well shot.

One movie cliche that really annoys me is when you have scores of highly trained troops or snipers blasting away and hitting nothing. Then the hero (or heroine) steps out and blasts them all away. Liu's knocking off dozens of people and not a bullet grazes here.

Anyway, she turns out to be a good assassin who's only trying to kill the head of DIA (or whoever he is) because her kid got killed in a DIA mission gone bad.

I rented this film because it has Talisa Soto, my second-favorite Bond girl. But as usual, her part isn't very large. Soto fans be warned.

Anyway, the script is just awful, even the title. Does anyone even know what an Ecks or Sever is? They're the names of the Bandares and Liu characters, but unlike Lara Croft, they're not previously known names, so why name the movie after them? Nor does the movie have anything especially to do with ballistics, other than that a lot of guns are shot.
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5.0 out of 5 stars My Video
Antonio Banderas versus Lucy Liu plus action, adventure, and lots of explosions very entertaining this is a lot of fun shows you a lot about the world of assassins glad to add to... Read more
Published 14 days ago by Benjamin J. Bell
5.0 out of 5 stars great
a great action movie which keeps you on edge from its beginning to the very end. A must to watch.
Published 4 months ago by WUFFMAN
4.0 out of 5 stars Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
I've always enjoyed this movie. I only had the movie in VHS and I wanted to purchase it in DVD.
Published 9 months ago by wojo
4.0 out of 5 stars Ballistic
Seen it before but only thought about getting a DVD of it recently. I liked it then and I love it now, Just hope it comes out in BluRay someday. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Joseph Marques
2.0 out of 5 stars This is what happens when you fail Action Film 101
Jeremiah Ecks (Antonio Banderas) is a former FBI agent who is haunted by the "supposed" death of his wife. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Eric S. Kim
2.0 out of 5 stars I Wish I Could Rate it Higher...
I really really wanted to like "Ecks vs. Sever". Why you may ask? Simply because I remember when I first read a review for this film when I delivering papers back in 2002 and the... Read more
Published on November 12, 2010 by Liolania
3.0 out of 5 stars bad copy; good when it would play
this copy was difficult to load and pixilated often; seller did a fine job of getting the product to me in a timely manner; great price; would not hesitate to buy there again.
Published on August 16, 2010 by T. Donahey
1.0 out of 5 stars It doesn't deserve the star I am required to give it...
Distancing yourself as far away from this preposterous slice of ridiculousness is kind of the only way to go here. Read more
Published on August 3, 2010 by Andrew Ellington
3.0 out of 5 stars Isn't SEVERe enough to ECKS this movie
I checked the ratings content for this movie and it said it has 'strong violence', and all I can say is I've seen much stronger violence than this. Read more
Published on July 22, 2010 by Del Keyes
2.0 out of 5 stars I hope Banderas and Liu regret this dreck, because I regret watching...
If you can get past the fact that there are two relatively big names (i.e. Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu), and ignore the plethora of guns and explosions, what you really get is an... Read more
Published on July 10, 2010 by Jason
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