Clevercell Very disappointing...

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

SnoopyStyle Defense Intelligence Agency director Robert Gant's son Michael is kidnapped by rogue agent Sever (Lucy Liu). FBI agent Jeremiah Ecks (Antonio Banderas) had left the agency after the death of his wife Rayne. He is reinstated to take down Sever. He is partnered with Canadian intelligence agent Harry Lee (Terry Chen) in Vancouver. It turns out that Gant had stolen experimental nano-weapon Softkill which he injected into Michael. Ecks is arrested after a long gun fight and then Sever breaks him out. She reunites Ecks with his wife Rayne (Talisa Soto) who turned out to have fake her death and married Gant under new name Vinn. On top of that, Michael is his son. Ecks and Sever must join forces to defeat Gant.The dialog is clunky. The story is a convoluted mess. Setting the location in Vancouver is a mistake. It's not a sexy locale. It's generally boring without the action. The action style is mostly older. A large amount of money is wasted in this obsolete action style. One can't deny that lots of things get blown up. It does bring happiness to the destructive child in me. The only saving grace of the old fashion explosions and crashes is that it's real. A lot of other things are wasted. Lucy Liu in her Matrix getup is wasted. The whole thing is a waste and the title is horrible.

MartinHafer "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" is not just a dumb title for a film, it's also a really, really dumb film. It's the sort of horribly written film chock full of non-stop action that seems to be written for folks who found the Rambo films too intellectually taxing. One stunt after another after another after--all strung together with conspiracy film clichés--that, in a nutshell, is this film.The film starts with the jaded FBI agent (Antonio Banderas--who seems half asleep in this role) being forced to rejoin....oh never mind, you know how this crappy clichés will go. And ultimately, he'll be force to join his old nemesis, the super-dangerous Lucy Liu (!!) to fight the powers of not-niceness that threaten to control the destiny of the Free World. And so, to do this, they punch and kick, blow up stuff and kill. This is punctuated by kidnappings, mayhem and conspiracies--none of which seem anything more than plot devices.Overall, not a lot to provide interest to anyone--even stupid people. Silly--just the sort of action film you might expect Jethro Bodine to make--if he was real and had his uncle's millions to finance this dud. I could imagine him directing this thing and shouting "Hoo-Wee--we gots lots of double-naught spies!!".

TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews Ah, I know, it doesn't entirely spell chaos, but a viewing of this might lead you to serious consideration that it should. Where to begin? Well, there is one interesting and noteworthy thing to this: One particular stunt, which I'm not sure has been seen elsewhere. Apart from that... oh dear. You know those movies where you're just thinking "how on Earth did this get made"? Not so with this one. I know why it was done, because it's actually got a concept or two that could be amazing, if someone with talent had been handling it. No, we're looking at wasted potential, and so much of it you have to be astounded that they managed to fit it all into one 90-minute package of crap. In case you have heard a description of the music herein: Yes, it's awesome, and completely fitting for a flick of this type, however, every single piece is ruined and misused(is it too much to ask for that they at least *try* to make what happens on-screen follow the tunes?). In fact, all of the editing is pretty bad(have you ever wondered how one would go about messing up *flashbacks*, on the very basic level? Look no further). The plot has silly twists and doesn't all make sense... honestly, this whole thing is powerfully unengaging. Thus, not even the action gets the audience going, in spite of it not sucking all of the time. It is over the top once or twice, and someone needs to teach whoever put all those explosions in this thing the meaning of the saying "less is more". The martial arts are fairly cool, save for a couple of clumsy moves, and a general tendency to film it in what may be the lousiest way imaginable. Acting is nothing special, then again, they had nothing to work with. The DVD holds interviews(all four are brief and not that worthwhile) with Banderas, Liu, Soto and Park(best thing about this, in my opinion), trailers(...no, they're not the exact same, I swear) and something called "B roll", consisting of a behind-the-scenes style look at footage being shot, and it's... cut? No, that's not it... "thrown", that's it... together casually. I recommend this... hm... I don't know... to people I don't like, maybe. 1/10

mr_popcorn Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever doesn't deserve to be called an action movie. As a matter of fact, its not a movie, its a jumbled mess with no plot, wooden acting and just plain atrocious. One of the worst movies I've ever seen and I want one and a half hour of my life back. There is absolutely no redeeming value in this piece of garbage, it headlines Banderas and Liu in their worst roles ever, one can only wonder why the two of them agreed to do this garbage. The dialogue is monosyllabic and the plot, if there ever was one, is distasteful. Also, the excessive and unnecessary use of explosives reached to an annoying and "make-me-want-to-kill-the-director" level, I just wanted it to be over with this device of mental torture. I strongly urge you not to watch this piece of junk, steer clear from it at all costs and erase it from your memory forever.