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:

Actress Playing Male Role | Friend | Critically Bashed | Box Office Flop | Spy

Awards:

4 nominations

Cast

Antonio Banderas	...	Agent Jeremiah Ecks
Lucy Liu	...	Agent Sever
Gregg Henry	...	Robert Gant / Agent Clark
Ray Park	...	A.J. Ross
Talisa Soto	...	Rayne Gant / Vinn Ecks
Miguel Sandoval	...	Julio Martin
Terry Chen	...	Agent Harry Lee
Roger R. Cross	...	Zane
Sandrine Holt	...	Agent Bennett
Steve Bacic	...	Agent Fleming
Aidan Drummond	...	Michael Gant
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) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:PG (British Columbia) | France:U | South Korea:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:12 | Germany:16 | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:M | Norway:15 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #39335) | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

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

Company:

Franchise Pictures

Trivia:

The 2001 Game Boy Advance game "Ecks vs. Sever" was actually based on an early script draft for this film and not the other way around. The game's producers later made a sequel to that game that was based on the finished version of the movie.

Goofs:

Continuity: After the motorcycle chase, Ecks is laying on the ground and Sever places Eck's pistol beside him close to his head. The gun is clearly not cocked. The next time we see the gun, moments later, it is cocked.

Quotes:

Julio Martin: [to Ross] What's the matter, someone get too much foam in their latté?

Movie Connections:

Featured in "HBO First Look: Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (#9.12)" (2002)

Soundtrack:

I Think of You

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.