Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
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| Directed by | Kaos |
| Produced by |
Chris Lee Elie Samaha Kaos |
| Written by | Alan B. McElroy |
| Starring |
Antonio Banderas Lucy Liu Gregg Henry Ray Park Talisa Soto Terry Chen |
| Music by | Don Davis |
| Cinematography | Julio Macat |
| Edited by |
Jay Cassidy Caroline Ross |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Release date
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September 20, 2002 |
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Running time
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91 minutes |
| Country |
United States Germany |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $70 million |
| Box office | $19.9 million |
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is a 2002 American-German action-thriller film starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu, and directed by Wych Kaosayananda (under the pseudonym of "Kaos"). Liu and Banderas play opposing secret agents who are supposedly enemies, but team up during the movie to fight a common enemy. The film has been called one of the worst movies ever made. At the box office, the film made $19.9 million on a $70-million budget. With a total of 116 reviews, the highest for a film with a 0% score, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is the worst reviewed film in the history of Rotten Tomatoes.
Returning home with his mother Vinn (Talisa Soto) from a trip to Berlin, Michael Gant, the son of Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) director Robert Gant (Gregg Henry), is kidnapped and his security detail is wiped out by the attacker, ex-DIA agent Sever (Lucy Liu). FBI agent Jeremiah Ecks (Antonio Banderas), left the agency after his wife Rayne was killed in a car bombing. His old boss, Julio Martin (Miguel Sandoval), asks him to investigate the Gant case. He claims that Rayne is still alive and he will give Ecks the information on her whereabouts, if he helps take down Sever. Ecks agrees and realizes Sever must be an orphan Chinese girl the DIA adopted to train as a covert operative and assassin with "no fear, no conscience and no morality." Meanwhile, Gant executes the only survivor of Michael's security detail. He then orders his elite agents, led by A. J. Ross (Ray Park), to pursue Sever and rescue Michael.
Ecks joins Martin and CSIS agent Harry Lee (Terry Chen) in Vancouver, where Sever is hiding out. Ecks learns that Gant stole an experimental weapon codenamed Softkill, a nanomachine which operates in the human circulatory system and can cause heart attacks at will. Gant had implanted Softkill in Michael in order to smuggle it into the United States. Ross and his men surround Sever in a shopping plaza, but she wipes out Ross's forces in a lengthy gun battle. Sever shoots Martin, and Ecks pursues Sever, climaxing with a fight that's cut off when Ross starts shooting at them with an M60 machine gun, giving Sever a chance to escape.
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