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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)

September. 20,2002
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3.7
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R
| Adventure Action Thriller

Jonathan Ecks, an FBI agent, realizes that he must join with his lifelong enemy, Agent Sever, a rogue DIA agent with whom he is in mortal combat, in order to defeat a common enemy. That enemy has developed a "micro-device" that can be injected into victims in order to kill them at will.

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Ehirerapp
2002/09/20

Waste of time

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Console
2002/09/21

best movie i've ever seen.

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Afouotos
2002/09/22

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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Brendon Jones
2002/09/23

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

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benjaminweber
2002/09/24

As I watched this sublime work, I became aware that this is unlike the others. Whereas many films will insist they are different, this film embraces what could make it the same to become different. This embrace of what an action film is makes Ballistic highly entertaining and watchable. When added to the pot with unique cinematography and a perfectly subdued yet omnipresent soundtrack, you have a ballet of bullets that seems to slide past as if a dream, and can truly help you to grasp the intricate threads of self-similarity running through the universe, such as those between a cauliflower and an explosion. An exceptional film, 10/10

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garyvanhorn
2002/09/25

There is a special place in Hell reserved for directors who put out this kind of torturous cinematic garbage. The "plot" of this movie, and I do use the term very lightly, is little more than an excuse to have a series of pointless and poorly done shootouts, explosions, and chase scenes. All scenes come with a generous amount of slow motion included. A little free advice, filming a crappy scene in slow motion does not make it better, it just makes a crappy scene take longer to get off the screen and on to the next crappy scene.Normally I would attempt to explain the plot now, but I really don't feel like it, mostly because I have very little idea of what the hell was going on in the movie most of the time. What I can tell you is that a small boy is kidnapped, and his father, who isn't really his father, is trying to rescue him because he will die from an experimental nanotech weapon that has been injected into his bloodstream, by the guy who isn't really his father. Confused yet? Don't worry it gets worse. The non-father works for the DIA, never heard of it? Neither has anyone else, but apparently it is a branch of the U.S. government and they have evil, corrupt people working for them and they like to blow things up, especially in Canada, which is where most of the film takes place. Don't ask me why two U.S. government agencies are having a wild west gunfight in Canada and nobody seems to care, it just is.So the DIA gets involved in a small war with the FBI in Canada over the kidnapping of the boy by a former DIA agent whose own son was killed by the evil non-father, and....screw it this is giving me a headache now. Suffice it to say this movie really, really sucks. The acting sucks, the excuse for a plot sucks, the action and effects suck, the editing sucks (in one car chase scene the day is rainy and the streets wet one moment, and completely dry the next) there is nothing to like about this movie. I should give the folks at MST3K a call on this one.

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Rosettes
2002/09/26

...........it even has a thin story line, it even has a believable subplot, ..........................but it's more of a movie for the boom and the brass flying than for anything else. Further, a movie that depends on a video game for recognition can lose potential audience members. I've never heard of this game "Ecks vs. Sever" before today. Picked up the movie more for its femme fatale classification.Hence, those three factors, of boom and guns, of based on a video game, of good looking babes, means that this movie was probably made for the adolescent male.Come to think of it, aside from the femme fatale, the injured lover, and the hooker on the street, I can't recall any other woman in this movie with a speaking part.It's okay; the photography is wonderful and some of the angles are fantastic; it's 91 minutes of non stop action without really that much blood although for the amount of bullets flying at the hero and heroine, one would expect that at least a stray shot might hit.But it is hardly memorable. Major supporting characters are there then disappear from the rest of the movie. It's an endless supply of professional Federal SWAT who don't stand a chance against the heros and as the movie moves on, turn out to be quite the amateurs. And while the villains probably succeed in getting the audience to hate them, the heros fail in getting the audience to love them. There is no sympathy for the innocent and they might as well just be a picture on the wall.

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Howlin Wolf
2002/09/27

... It's no different to films like "Commando" in the '80's - pure action cheese!!!! Imagine "Assassins", with Lucy Liu instead of Sly; and instead of a BAD script, this time not even an attempt at one, and you're almost there.I don't really know what else to say as it has to be at least three years since I watched this movie, and its detractors have a point when they say nothing about it really sticks in the memory except pyrotechnics and good looking, inexpressive stars. The audience is only given bare bones, but to be fair, I remember being impressed with the way the action sequences were put together. They're adrenalin-inducing, and in such a giddy rush of a mood it becomes simple to overlook any logical gaps or lack of characterisation. It's easy to knock such macho enterprises. It doesn't do very much, but even with only mayhem as its stock-in-trade, it delivers. That has to be better than any so-called action films where there isn't even any hint of spectacle, at all.

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