Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)

User Rating:

3.4/10   

Director:

Wych Kaosayananda

Writer (WGA):

Alan B. McElroy (written by)

Release Date:

20 September 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Thriller

Tagline:

Your most dangerous enemies are the friends you've double-crossed.

Plot:

Tasked with destroying each other, an FBI agent and a rogue NSA agent soon discover that there's a much bigger enemy at work.

Plot Keywords:

Enemy | FBI | Actress Playing Male Role | Box Office Flop | Getaway

Awards:

4 nominations

Cast

Antonio Banderas	...	Jeremiah Ecks
Lucy Liu	...	Sever
Gregg Henry	...	Robert Gant / Clark
Ray Park	...	A.J. Ross
Talisa Soto	...	Vinn / Rayne
Miguel Sandoval	...	Julio Martin
Terry Chen	...	Harry
Roger R. Cross	...	Zane
Sandrine Holt	...	Agent Bennett
Steve Bacic	...	Agent Fleming
Aidan Drummond	...	Michael
Eric Breker	...	Agent Curtis
Tony Alcantar	...	Edgar Moore
David Parker	...	Dark Suit #1
Josephine Jacob	...	Pretty Girl

Also Known As:

Ballistic (Germany)
Ecks vs. Sever (USA) (working title)
X vs. Sever (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence.

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA | Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Malaysia:18SG | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:14A (Alberta/Manitoba) (Canadian Home Video rating) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:PG (British Columbia) | France:U | South Korea:12 | Netherlands:12 (TV version) (slightly cut) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:12 | Germany:16 | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:M | Norway:15 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | UK:15 | USA:R (No. 39336) | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

Vancouver Public Library, 360 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Franchise Pictures

Trivia:

The role of Agent Sever was originally written to be played by a man.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the covered garage, before Ecks encounters Sever, he manually loads a shotgun round into the already open breech, then moves the slide into place, racking the new round. It is obviously ready to shoot. When he does encounter Sever, we hear the sound of the shotgun slide being racked as though there had been no round in the chamber.

Quotes:

Robert Gant: How much time do we have?
Ross: Based on our tests, we have 28 hours left as of now.
Robert Gant: And then my son dies? Do whatever it takes, Ross. Get me Michael.
Ross: You know who we're up against. You know what she wants.
Robert Gant: Well, I can't give it to her, can I?

Movie Connections:

References Equilibrium (2002)

Soundtrack:

Hell Above Water

Can't we go into negative ratings?

I liked the trailers, I hoped for the best and then sat in dumbstruck horror as one of the worst films ever made (as in so bad its painful to watch bad) unspooled before my eyes. Rumor has it that the film makers know a thing about movie making. I know the cast does, but what wanders across the screen looks like the dailies of a really bad TV commercial put together by someone with no sense of film structure. I'm told that this has something to do with two assassins fighting each other after some one is kidnapped, but I'm not certain since things just sort of happen for no real reason. I would like to think that this movie was a big joke on the movie going public but no one would want to spend what it cost to make this movie as a joke, especially when there was no hope of ever getting the money back in ten thousand life times. A void unless your eyes need to experience cinematic blunt force trauma applied to them.