Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Image:Ballistic.jpg
Directed by	Wych Kaosayananda
Produced by	Chris Lee Elie Samaha
Written by	Alan B. McElroy
Starring	Antonio Banderas Lucy Liu Gregg Henry
Music by	Don Davis
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	September 20, 2002
Budget	$70,000,000
IMDb profile

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is a 2002 movie starring Lucy Liu and Antonio Banderas. The film was universally panned by critics since they regarded it as having no redeeming features (not even the comedy value normally associated with bad films). It is often listed among the worst movies ever made. Financially, the film was a box office failure, recouping just over $14 million of its $70 million budget.

Liu and Banderas play opposing secret agents who are supposedly enemies, but rather than fighting each other they team up to take down the megalomaniacal director of the DIA played by Gregg Henry.

A Game Boy Advance first-person shooter, Ecks vs. Sever, was based on a very old version of the movie's script and, story wise, is almost nothing like the film. It was released in 2001, before the movie. A second game created after the movie's release, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, considered a sequel to the game but which followed the movie, was considered an impressive technological feat on the GBA and was much better accepted than the movie itself.^[1]

In March 2007, the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film #1 among "The Worst of the Worst" movie list.

1 Plot
2 Locations
3 Reception
4 Soundtrack
5 See also
6 External links
7 Notes

[edit] Plot

The film is notorious for having a near incomprehensible plot, featuring mainly disjointed action scenes. What can be made out as a scenario appears to be as following:

The son of Robert Gant is kidnapped. Former FBI agent Jeremiah Ecks (Antonio Banderas) is asked by his former boss to investigate the case. He discovers that the kidnapper must be one of the Chinese girls the Defense Intelligence Agency adopts and trains as agents. He also discovers that DIA agent Robert Gant stole a dangerous nanobot assassin, which operates in the human circulatory system, in Berlin. Gant had placed the nanobot in his son's body in order to smuggle it to North America.

Robert Gant is married to Vinn (Talisa Soto), who was previously married to Ecks. Gant separated Vinn and Ecks by staging the death (by car bomb) of each of them to the other; Vinn was officially declared dead and had a closed-casket funeral attended by Ecks. Also, Gant killed the husband and child of his colleague Sever (Lucy Liu), who subsequently kidnapped Gant's son to avenge herself. It turns out that it is not Gant but Ecks who is the father of the child.

Ecks and Sever succeed in killing Gant. Ecks and his family are reunited.

[edit] Locations

Vancouver, Canada

[edit] Reception

Rotten Tomatoes named Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever its worst reviewed movie ever at 1.5831%, receiving positive ratings from zero out of 102 reviews.[1] The Internet Movie Database once ranked the film as low as #91 in the IMDB Bottom 100 list, but its average rating has gone up since then sufficiently for it to no longer be on that list.