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| Original Title |
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever |
| Director |
Wych Kaosayananda |
| Genre |
Action, Thriller |
| Released |
2002-09-18 |
| MPAA Rating |
Rated R for strong violence. |
| Rated |
3.5 |
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| Jonathan Ecks (Antonio Banderas), an FBI agent, realizes that he must join with his lifelong enemy, Agent Sever (Lucy Liu), 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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| Antonio Banderas as Agent Jeremiah Ecks , Lucy Liu as Agent Sever , Gregg Henry as Robert Gant/Agent Clark , Ray Park as A.J. Ross , Talisa Soto as Vinn Gant/Rayne , Miguel Sandoval as Julio Martin , Terry Chen as Agent Harry Lee , Roger R. Cross as Zane , Sandrine Holt as Agent Bennett , Steve Bacic as Agent Fleming , Aidan Drummond as Michael Gant , Eric Breker as Agent Curtis , Tony Alcantar as Edgar Moore , David Parker as Dark Suit #1 , Josephine Jacob as Pretty Girl |
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What a mess
STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal
Instead*Avoid At All Costs
Wych Kaosayananda (or Kaos,as he'd rather be known by this film) marks his
directorial debut in Hollywood with this flat,empty and ultimately,for all
it's loud,noisy pyrotechnics and explosions,utterly lifeless action
vehicle,his only other directorial feature being a film he helmed in his
native Thailand by the name of Fah.A mega flop in the States and,probably
subsequently,a straight to video release on this side of the Atlantic,since
first impressions always count,he'll have a hard time following it up with
anything more successful,unless his next film is the sequel to another
successful film with a major publicity campaign behind it.Ballistic:Ecks vs.
Sever is a failure on all counts.A complete case of style over
substance,with no attention payed to writing an engaging script,balanced
with all the attention in the world payed to orchestrating flashy,balletic
action sequences playing over a thumping hardcore soundtrack,which backfires
when these emerge as no fun whatsoever.The film has a runningly bland,tepid
feel to everything going on in it,with weak,limp dialogue and soulless
performances from the two lead stars (though with a script this weak,who can
blame them?).Antonio Banderas emerges as wantern and disinterested in his
role,while Lucy Liu,so engaging in the Charlie's Angels films,is here a
perfunctory kick ass chick who barely utters a word until about two thirds
of the way into the film.It's thankfully short and once or twice (literally)
there are some engaging action scenes,but these belong in a much better
movie where their presence would have had a more lasting impact.Don't waste
your time or money.*
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