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Is ‘Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever’ One of the Worst Movies Ever?

In?The IMDB.O. List, ScreenCrush editor-in-chief Matt Singer watches every movie online Movie Database’s Lowest Rated Movies list to ascertain whether or not really are the worst movies ever made. Previous chapters can be obtained?here.

Movie #4: Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever?(2002)

Director:?Kaos

Writers: Alan B. McElroy

Release Date:?September 20, 2002

U.S. box office:?$14.3 million

Rotten Tomatoes rating:?0 percent (0!)

Metacritic score:?19

Letterboxd average grade:?1.6

CinemaScore: B-

IMDb Bottom 100 Ranking:?77

Is This Movie Bad?

I’m using a hard time believing the language when i type them but – it isn’t really?that bad.

How Bad Will it be?

Don’t get me wrong.?Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is not an good movie (and it’s also an even worse title). I can’t recommend anyone watch it. But when compared with several of the movies I’ve already watched in this particular column, it’s practically?2001: A place Odyssey.?Its Wikipedia page “boasts” that “with you use 116 reviews, the top for a film having a 0 percent score,?Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever?will be the worst reviewed film during the good reputation for?Rotten Tomatoes.”

This is a good reminder that Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t?measure a movie’s quality; its measurements are?a movie’s consensus. A Rotten Tomatoes 0 does not necessarily mean a movie is usually an irredeemable little bit of garbage. (It?might also imply that, but?that doesn’t mean it?automatically.) Instead this implies that all critic who reviewed the movie disliked it. They will often hate it, or they may consider it absolutely was meh. With my case, I’d personally rate?Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever?rotten, just like I might rate?The Oogieloves from the Big Ballon Adventure rotten. Nonetheless would prefer to watch Ecks fight Sever daily for any year while my dog barked at my face than watch those f-ing Oogieloves sing regarding their fish one more time.

Ecks vs. Sever?plot is dumb, several of the acting is atrocious, the soundtrack?might are actually?released beneath title?Now That must be I Call the Worst Music of the 2000s Vol. 1,?and scene after scene is filled pointless, wanton destruction. (The movie’s affordability is listed online at $70 million and it seems like they spent $68 million of the particular amount on pyrotechnics.) However, the vast majority of pointless wanton destruction is well-filmed by way of the appropriately self-named Kaos (real name Wych Kaosayanada; Kaos is his?given name, that it was given to him, by him). You will discover a number of genuinely innovative shots. I wouldn’t think I’ve come across the part using this sequence when a sniper falls from his perch as well as camera falls to the ground with him, at the same time he crashes into your roof of the parked car, in a other action film before or since.

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever: Dawn of Explosions?also incorporates a surprisingly committed lead performance from Antonio Banderas as former FBI agent Jeremiah Ecks. Lost inside of a drunken stupor after the death of his wife, Ecks gets coaxed back into service while using the commitment of details on who killed his?family and why. Eventually, he learns that another secret agent named Sever (Lucy Liu) props up critical for comprehend – which she?also sports son of your important bigwig within the American intelligence community. If Ecks finds the boy and stops Sever, he or she obtain the information he wants.

This is actually very silly, but it gets even sillier once the film starts unveiling a number of twists which might be somehow both incredibly ludicrous as well as obvious.?Banderas, consummate pro that he is, treats it all like Shakespeare, and imbues Ecks – who, again is called Ecks – having a bone-deep pain and weariness. Inside a wardrobe of flattering overcoats and messy bangs,?attractive strikes a wonderful figure of the tragic hero. (Banderas generally does not get the financial lending he deserves being an action star who is able to?bring both raw physicality and genuine?emotion to?rock stupid material.)

Lucy Liu doesn’t fare as along with Banderas; she’s deciding on the strong silent type?and instead discovers as quietly blank. Outside the scenes where she’s shooting people or blowing stuff up, though, her?scenes are fairly minimal, and Banderas is hardly ever not even close the screen.?His performance, in conjunction with Kaos’ occasional flashes of visual inventiveness, aren’t enough to redeem your entire movie, they?were?enough to have me alert and attentive throughout, instead of wishing desperately to your sweet discharge of death like I had been during something like?The Oogieloves.

Does It Belong At a Variety of the Worst Movies Ever Made?

Honestly? Probably not!?If I manage to make it to the end of this project without surgically removing my personal eyeballs, there is no way?Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever?winds up above 90 away from 100. If by a few miracle it can, this means there’s a lot more decent movies for the IMDb’s worst movies list than I originally anticipated.

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is currently on the market to rent on numerous websites and platforms. A few weeks about the IMDB.O. List:?Your third dimension is terror – and not on home video.