Ballistic - Ecks vs. Sever

Starring:Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu, Gregg Henry, Ray Park, Talisa Soto, Miguel Sandoval, Terry Chen, Roger R. Cross, Sandrine Holt, Steve Bacic, Aidan Drummond, Eric Breker, Tony Alcantar, David Parker (IV), Josephine Jacob, David Palffy, David Pearson (VII), John McConnach, Norm Sherry, Brian Drummond
Director: Wych Kaosayananda
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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If you have a hearty appetite for fiery explosions, heavy ordnance, and nonsensical mayhem, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is just for you. This mindless action flick is so wrong-headed that even its ungainly title is inaccurate: as expert assassins on the fringes of government intelligence, FBI agent Ecks (Antonio Banderas) and Defense Intelligence agent Sever (Lucy Liu) aren't battling each other at all. Instead, he's trying to find his missing ex-wife (the stunning but expressionless Talisa Soto) and young son, while she's pursuing an agency turncoat (Gregg Henry) who's stolen the ultimate micro-technology for clandestine killing. United against a common enemy, Ecks and Sever lay waste to half of Vancouver (the film's budget-conscious location), and it all makes as much sense as meatballs on a vegetarian menu. Banderas and Liu look fabulous as corpses pile up around them, but Thai action director Kaos (a.k.a. Wych Kaosayananda) must have confused his nickname with the incomprehensible plot of his movie. --Jeff Shannon
Description
This is a story of two spies, who are lifelong adversaries, engaged in a cat-and-mouse hunt. Jonathan Ecks (Banderas) is an FBI agent hunting the other, Sever (Liu) a rogue NSA agent. What they learn, however, while trying to kill each other... is that they might be on the same side, and faced with a threat greater to each other than themselves.

Ballistic - Ecks vs. Sever
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It's Not That Bad

A guilty pleasure if there ever was one

Ballistic - we've been here before

LUCY LIU !!!

Liu Is The Film

Ballistic - Ecks vs. Sever
Starring: Antonio Banderas , Lucy Liu , Gregg Henry , Ray Park , and Talisa Soto
Director: Wych Kaosayananda
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00007CVTH
Release Date: 2002-12-24

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If you have a hearty appetite for fiery explosions, heavy ordnance, and nonsensical mayhem, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is just for you. This mindless action flick is so wrong-headed that even its ungainly title is inaccurate: as expert assassins on the fringes of government intelligence, FBI agent Ecks (Antonio Banderas) and Defense Intelligence agent Sever (Lucy Liu) aren't battling each other at all. Instead, he's trying to find his missing ex-wife (the stunning but expressionless Talisa Soto) and young son, while she's pursuing an agency turncoat (Gregg Henry) who's stolen the ultimate micro-technology for clandestine killing. United against a common enemy, Ecks and Sever lay waste to half of Vancouver (the film's budget-conscious location), and it all makes as much sense as meatballs on a vegetarian menu. Banderas and Liu look fabulous as corpses pile up around them, but Thai action director Kaos (a.k.a. Wych Kaosayananda) must have confused his nickname with the incomprehensible plot of his movie. --Jeff Shannon

Description

This is a story of two spies, who are lifelong adversaries, engaged in a cat-and-mouse hunt. Jonathan Ecks (Banderas) is an FBI agent hunting the other, Sever (Liu) a rogue NSA agent. What they learn, however, while trying to kill each other... is that they might be on the same side, and faced with a threat greater to each other than themselves.

Customer Reviews:

It's Not That Bad.......2007-06-16

I bought this for next to nothing. It's Mindless Fun.

Don't think just watch. What else can I say...it cost like a buck used.

A guilty pleasure if there ever was one.......2007-01-17

Ok, so this movie isn't a masterpiece. But I find it to be an entertaining guilty pleasure, one of those movies that one would never admit to anyone else that they own. It has gotten blasted everywhere by professional and non-professional critics alike, and probably bombed at the box office (I wouldn't doubt this for a second). But it does offer some fairly thrilling explosions, shootouts, hand-to-hand combat and the sort. No better or worse than any other clichéd action flick of this genre. The plot leaves little to be desired, sure, but one usually doesn't watch a movie like this for the plot anyway. And of course, there's the gorgeous Lucy Liu. She's quite easy on the eyes here, let me tell you.

I'd recommend this to die-hard Lucy Liu fans, die-hard Antonio Banderas fans, or fans of the totally brainless action flick genre. Not much else to offer other moviegoers I'm afraid. Definitely rent first before buying, and only buy if you can find it cheap.

Ballistic - we've been here before.......2006-10-14

I wanted to give it three stars, I really did! However, a three star rating would have put this film at "average" and frankly, there is too much here to make it below average. A Junior High jock would love it. Not much acting, some great chase scenes involving cars, trucks and speed bikes. Explosions galore, and tons of sub-machine gunfire with plenty of bad guys to soak up the discharge.

The movies plot centers around a corporate high tech guru named Grant, whose son is kidnapped by a trained assassin type (Lui). Gant by now has been portrayed as a corrupt jerk, an rightfully so; he has stolen a technology that is a doomsday device of sorts...the problem is, the device was implanted in his son so he could smuggle it across the border! Now enter Antonio Banderas (playing the part of Jeremy). Jeremy is a former agent presumed dead who also has a special tie to Gant's current wife, who obviously does not care for her husband but just wants her son back. Through all the drama is the center of attention in Lui, whose character (Sever) is a one-woman army, taking out dozens of SWAT members at every turn, block, tennis court, school playground, and swimming pool in the city. At least with the constant overboard of machinegun fire (with Sever NEVER getting grazed let alone hit) coupled with the pyrotechnics, they did not throw in the Matrix/Crouching Poodle Hidden Porcupine bulletstopaction ridiculousness that has become a staple even in the lower budget action flicks. Lower budget? I should say lower grade, this film went OVER budget with how many Chryslers were wrecked during the chase scenes!

Bottom line, its to cliché', and often times the fight scenes are hokey. As said before, if you want something with car chases and explosions topped off with lots of ammo being emptied, this is your movie. Despite a decent storyline it is really nothing we have seen before. Lui doesn't talk much at all taking away from any special conviction that she can be any more than a "Charlie's Angel". Banderas does what he can only do, sit at a bar, act like he wants revenge, and pull low-toned one-liners like a tough guy. It is what it is, a B-grade action flick.

LUCY LIU !!!.......2006-04-30

Everything said by previous reviewers who detracted the movie is right. Since it?s sort of a chaotic affair,I got the plot by the second viewing,thus finding it more enjoyable. If you,like me,think Lucy is the hottest asian chick ever to have adorned the big screen,by all means buy this dvd since you get a lot of her in it !!! But if you want some nice nudity and sex scenes with Lucy at her youngest,get Flypaper.

Liu Is The Film .......2006-04-11

Lucy liu point blank is this movie and really nothing else matters. It's sad because Antonio tried and he was close but he couldn't even make this weak and seen before story noticeable. The action is the movie, Liu is a passionate and skilled fighter and really her nicely done fight scenes are what gets your finger moving to press that rewind button. Antonio has some standout scenes with gunplay but it wasn't enough to make it a good film but it's good enough to entertain you for a few viewings. Amazing action, strong acting, and amazing action but somehow the story drops.

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Ballistic Ecks vs. Sever / Femme Fatale
Starring: Rebecca Romijn , Antonio Banderas , Peter Coyote , Eriq Ebouaney , and Edouard Montoute
Director: Brian De Palma , and Wych Kaosayananda
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B0001WTX14
Release Date: 2004-05-04

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Exit Wounds/Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Starring: Steven Seagal , DMX , Isaiah Washington , Anthony Anderson , and Michael Jai White
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak , and Wych Kaosayananda
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B0000E6FRJ
Release Date: 2003-11-18

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