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NUMBERS
Box Office: $14,235,059
VHS Rentals: $3,800,000
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CONSENSUS
Wall-to-wall action without a hint of wit or plot.
CAST & CREW
Lucy Liu, Antonio Banderas, Gregg Henry
Directed by Kaos
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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. more...
MPAA RATING
R, for strong violence
RUNTIME
1 hour, 31 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Sep 20, 2002
Video: Dec 24, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Warner Bros.
GENRE
Action/Adventure, Action, Spy, Future/Futuristic Worlds
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
PRODUCTION NOTES
NEWS ARTICLES
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SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "Mindless and boring martial arts and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling storyline."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"So devoid of any kind of intelligible story that it makes films like XXX and Collateral Damage seem like thoughtful treatises"
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"In addition to sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic history, Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever also features terrible, banal dialogue; convenient, hole-ridden plotting; superficial characters and a rather dull, unimaginative car chase."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Just plain silly."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"Exactly what you’d expect from a guy named Kaos."
-- Joshua Tyler, FILM HOBBIT
"Whether it's the worst movie of 2002, I can't say for sure: Memories of Rollerball have faded, and I skipped Country Bears. But this new jangle of noise, mayhem and stupidity must be a serious contender for the title."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"For a film about explosions and death and spies, "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" seems as safe as a children's film. Well, in some of those, the mother deer even dies."
-- Michael Szymanski, ZAP2IT.COM
"Even by dumb action-movie standards, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is a dumb action movie."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"Yes, Ballistic is silly. Unfortunately, it's not silly fun unless you enjoy really bad movies."
-- Gerry Shamray, SUN NEWSPAPERS OF CLEVELAND
"You know that ten bucks you'd spend on a ticket? Just send it to Cranky. We don't get paid enough to sit through crap like this."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"One of the worst films of 2002."
-- Robert Roten, LARAMIE MOVIE SCOPE
"Eckstraordinarily lame and Severely boring."
-- Audrey Rock-Richardson, TOOELE TRANSCRIPT-BULLETIN (UTAH)
"Maybe you'll be lucky, and there'll be a power outage during your screening so you can get your money back."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
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"You'll have more fun setting fire to yourself in the parking lot. You'll be more entertained getting hit by a bus."
-- Rob Vaux, FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM
"...the film suffers from a lack of humor (something needed to balance out the violence)..."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"For a shoot-'em-up, Ballistic is oddly lifeless."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"A shambles of a movie--visually unattractive, unbearably loud and utterly silly...its hilarity is completely unintentional."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Most new movies have a bright sheen. Some, like Ballistic, arrive stillborn... looking like the beaten, well-worn video box cover of seven years into the future."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"Is “Ballistic” worth the price of admission? Absolutely not. It sucked. Would I see it again? Please see previous answer."
-- Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi, BROOMFIELD ENTERPRISE
"Who, exactly, is fighting whom here? Ah, yes, that would be me: fighting off the urge to doze."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"The backyard battles you staged with your green plastic army men were more exciting and almost certainly made more sense."
-- Nick Rogers, STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER (SPRINGFIELD, IL)
"Spy-vs.-spy action flick with Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu never comes together."
-- James Rocchi, NETFLIX
"At every opportunity to do something clever, the film goes right over the edge and kills every sense of believability... all you have left is a no-surprise series of explosions and violence while Banderas looks like he's not trying to laugh at how bad it"
-- Kevin A. Ranson, MOVIECRYPT.COM
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ROTTEN 0%
Avg. Rating: 2.5/10 |
"Some movies were made for the big screen, some for the small screen, and some, like Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, were made for the palm screen."
-- Susan Walker, TORONTO STAR
"If you collected all the moments of coherent dialogue, they still wouldn't add up to the time required to boil a four- minute egg."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
"One of the worst movies of the year."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"I don't even care that there's no plot in this Antonio Banderas-Lucy Liu faceoff. It's still terrible!"
-- Andrew O'Hehir, SALON.COM
"I'm guessing the director is a magician. After all, he took three minutes of dialogue, 30 seconds of plot and turned them into a 90-minute movie that feels five hours long."
-- Bill Muller, ARIZONA REPUBLIC
"The action scenes have all the suspense of a 20-car pileup, while the plot holes are big enough for a train car to drive through -- if Kaos hadn't blown them all up."
-- John Monaghan, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"It's loud and boring; watching it is like being trapped at a bad rock concert."
-- Elvis Mitchell, NEW YORK TIMES
"Ecks this one off your must-see list."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
"Two big things are missing -- anything approaching a visceral kick, and anything approaching even a vague reason to sit through it all."
-- Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"One well-timed explosion in a movie can be a knockout, but a hundred of them can be numbing. Proof of this is Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever."
-- Robert Koehler, VARIETY
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"Horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly dull and visually ugly when it isn't incomprehensible."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
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