Rotten
For many viewers, the big question may be not whether Ecks and Sever will get together, or why they are fighting in the first place, but why am I sitting here, anyway?
Jocelyn Noveck, Associated Press
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Your most dangerous enemies are the friends you've double-crossed.
2002 · 1h 31m · R
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Wych Kaosayananda
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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Overview
Jeremiah Ecks, an FBI agent, realizes that he must join with his lifelong enemy, Agent Sever, 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.
Director and cast
- Wych Kaosayananda Director
- Antonio Banderas as Agent Jeremiah Ecks
- Lucy Liu as Agent Jane Sever
- Gregg Henry as Robert Gant / Agent Clark
- Ray Park as Agent A.J. Ross
- Talisa Soto as Vinn Ecks / Rayne Gant
- Miguel Sandoval as Julio Martin
- Terry Chen as Agent Harry Lee
- Roger Cross as Zane
- Sandrine Holt as Agent Bennett
- Steve Bacic as Agent Fleming
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
An action film starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu, Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever looks like a video-game promo, has a story that plays like the fifth episode of a struggling syndicated action show, and feels like a headache waiting to happen.
Keith Phipps, AV Club
Rotten
Between explosions there is enough room left for only minimal character development.
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News
Rotten
Director Wych Kaosayananda -- or Kaos, to you -- is stupendously inept, unable even to properly light a combat sequence.
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Rotten
Before seeing this film I couldn't understand why the producers had given it a subtitle; afterward I realized Ecks vs. Sever was probably the full script.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
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