Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Directed by Wych Kaosayananda
Produced by Chris Lee
Elie Samaha
Written by Alan B. McElroy
Starring Antonio Banderas
Lucy Liu
Gregg Henry
Ray Park
Talisa Soto
Music by Don Davis
Cinematography Julio Macat
Editing by Jay Cassidy
Caroline Ross
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) September 20, 2002
Running time 91 min.
Country United States
Germany
Language English
Budget $70,000,000
IMDb profile

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is a 2002 action film starring Lucy Liu and Antonio Banderas. Liu and Banderas play opposing secret agents who are supposedly enemies, but team up during the movie. The film was universally panned by critics, who generally regarded it as having no redeeming features, not even the comedic value normally associated with bad films. It is often listed among the worst movies ever made. In March 2007, the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film #1 among "The Worst of the Worst" movie list. Financially, the film was a box office failure, recouping just over $14 million of its $70 million budget.

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[edit] Plot

The son of Robert Gant (Gregg Henry), director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), 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 DIA adopts and trains as agents. He also discovers that Gant stole a dangerous nanobot assassin, which operates in the human circulatory system. 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.

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[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]

[edit] Soundtrack

A score composed by Don Davis was released but a soundtrack was not.

[edit] Video game

A Game Boy Advance first-person shooter, Ecks vs. Sever, was based on a very early version of the film script and, story wise, is almost nothing like the final rewrite. It was released in 2001, before the film. A second game created after the premier, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, which follows the plot-line from the film, is considered a sequel to the first game. It was considered an impressive technological feat on the GBA and was much better accepted than the film itself.[1]

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  1. ^ Metacritic Review Database for the Ecks vs. Sever GBA game