Lucy Liu and Antonio Banderas are opposing super-deadly secret agents who team up to take down the corrupt head of their agency in order to save a young boy who has been injected with a deadly weapon/virus thing — sounds like a can’t-miss setup, right? Well, you might have thought so if you were one of the folks responsible for this mess, but predictably, audiences were not fooled — “Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever” elevated “universally panned” into an art form. Or at least something more closely resembling art than this muddled mess of an action film. When a movie is widely regarded as being inferior to its own Game Boy adaptation, you know “worst movie ever” is not only apt, it might actually be an understatement.
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Mistake #1
In the scene where Ecks is chasing Sever, you see Ecks put a shell into an open chambered shotgun. This means that there is only one shell in the gun. A moment later when he yells stop inside the building he cocks the gun again. Thus, he is holding up Sever without any shells in the gun.
Mistake #2
In the long shot of the sniper falling down onto the car, you can see that there is nobody standing next to it. Yet when the crash sends the tyre flying, suddenly some policeman is right beside the car getting hit.
Mistake #3
How does Ecks survive being buried under seemingly TONS of metal pipes without breaking any bones in the process? Also, the first shot of the falling pipes scene buries him completely, but when the henchman is looking for him, Ecks’s body is exposed from the waist up.
Mistake #4
Near the end in the train yard when everything was blown up there was a passenger train car still in tact with its windows still in it. The train car next to it was levelled.
Mistake #5
When Ecks, his wife, and Sever are driving to Severs lair you can see that the cut on Ecks’ cheek is just a sticker because there is a different reflection on his skin from the sunset.
Wall-to-wall action without a hint of wit or plot.
And it gets a Tomatometer rating of 0%
Rotten tomatoes – 102 in number
