History Film / Ticker

A year later, in San Francisco, two cops — Ray Nettles (Creator/TomSizemore) and his partner Art "Fuzzy" Rice (Nas) are driving around talking. Nettles and Fuzzy are narcotics cops. Nettles is a cop on the edge. His wife and son were killed by a bomb. Ever since then, he has lost his enthusiasm for his job, hygiene, and life in general. When the two are dispatched to a crime scene where Irish mad bomber Alex Swann (Creator/DennisHopper) and his gang are hiding; Fuzzy ends up getting killed and one of the gang, scientist Claire (Creator/JaimePressly) is arrested. Swann escapes. He starts planting bombs all over the city, and demands that unless the police release Claire, he will detonate one every hour, killing hundreds of civilians. Nettles and Glass team up to stop him.

* DecoyProtagonist: From the opening scene, you might think that the film was about Glass redeeming himself for his prior failure to stop Swann. Instead, Glass turns out to be the secondary protagonist and to apparently not be affected at all by his prior encounter, with Nettles instead being the main character and trying to get over a completely different DarkAndTroubledPast.

* HighHeelFaceTurn: Claire, the lone female member of Swann's gang, initially appears to realise just how crazy the guy is after being taken in by the police, and indicates that she was only working with him out of a misguided desire for revenge. However, the trope gets subverted when she betrays the police and joins Swann again later in the film.
* HijackedByGanon: Not long after Claire joins up with Swann again, [[spoiler:she kills him with a car bomb, then takes over as the main villain]].

** After causing so much death and destruction with his bombs, [[spoiler:Swann gets blown up himself, courtesy of a car bomb planted by Claire]].

* MadBomber: Swann, the film's main villain, a rather blatant ActorAllusion to Dennis Hopper's previous role in ''Film/{{Speed}}''.
* RunningGag: Swann makes more quips and one-liners about time and clocks than Mr. Freeze makes about ice in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''.
* StockFootage: The film uses this extensively, seemingly due not having the budget to do any ''actual'' explosions despite its bomb-themed plot. This has the result of the exploding buildings often not looking anything like they're supposed to; for instance, the downtown hotel where Swann and his cohorts stay early in the film suddenly changes into a drive-in motel before exploding. See CreatorBacklash in the trivia tab for the reason for this.

A year later, in San Francisco, two cops — Ray Nettles (Creator/TomSizemore) and his partner Art "Fuzzy" Rice (Nas) are driving around talking. Nettles and Fuzzy are narcotics cops. Nettles is a cop on the edge. His wife and son were killed by a bomb. Ever since then, he has lost his enthusiasm for his job, hygiene, and life in general. When the two are dispatched to a crime scene where Irish mad bomber Alex Swann (Creator/DennisHopper) and his gang are hiding; Fuzzy ends up getting killed and one of the gang, HotScientist Claire (Creator/JaimePressly) is arrested. Swann escapes. He starts planting bombs all over the city, and demands that unless the police release Claire, he will detonate one every hour, killing hundreds of civilians. Nettles and Glass team up to stop him.

%%* HotScientist: Claire.

''Ticker'' is a 2001 action film directed by Albert Pyun.

* StockFootage: The film uses this extensively, seemingly due not having the budget to do any ''actual'' explosions despite its bomb-themed plot. This has the result of the exploding buildings often not looking anything like they're supposed to; for instance, the downtown hotel where Swann and his cohorts stay early in the film suddenly changes into a drive-in motel before exploding.

The film opens with a hostage situation at the house of a United States Senator. A bomb has been planted somewhere within. Frank Glass (Creator/StevenSeagal) is in charge of the bomb squad out to defuse it. Alas, once it seems they've succeeded, they turn out to be mistaken, and the bomb explodes anyway.

A year later, in San Francisco, two cops — Ray Nettles (Tom Sizemore) and his partner Art "Fuzzy" Rice (Nas) are driving around talking. Nettles and Fuzzy are narcotics cops. Nettles is a cop on the edge. His wife and son were killed by a bomb. Ever since then, he has lost his enthusiasm for his job, hygiene, and life in general. When the two are dispatched to a crime scene where Irish mad bomber Alex Swann (Dennis Hopper) and his gang are hiding; Fuzzy ends up getting killed and one of the gang, HotScientist Claire (Jaime Pressly) is arrested. Swann escapes. He starts planting bombs all over the city, and demands that unless the police release Claire, he will detonate one every hour, killing hundreds of civilians. Nettles and Glass team up to stop him.

The film opens with a hostage situation at the house of a United States Senator. A bomb has been planted somewhere within. Frank Glass (Creator/StevenSeagal) is in charge of the bomb squad out to defuse it. Alas, once it seems they've succeeded, they turn out to be mistaken, and the bomb explodes anyway. A year later, in San Francisco, two cops — Ray Nettles (Tom Sizemore) and his partner Art "Fuzzy" Rice (Nas) are driving around talking. Nettles and Fuzzy are narcotics cops. Nettles is a cop on the edge. His wife and son were killed by a bomb. Ever since then, he has lost his enthusiasm for his job, hygiene, and life in general. When the two are dispatched to a crime scene where Irish mad bomber Alex Swann (Dennis Hopper) and his gang are hiding; Fuzzy ends up getting killed and one of the gang, HotScientist Claire (Jaime Pressly) is arrested. Swann escapes. He starts planting bombs all over the city, and demands that unless the police release Claire, he will detonate one every hour, killing hundreds of civilians. Nettles and Glass team up to stop him.

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The film opens with a hostage situation at the house of a United States Senator. A bomb has been planted somewhere within. Frank Glass (Creator/StevenSeagal) is in charge of the bomb squad out to diffuse it. Alas, once it seems they've succeeded, they turn out to be mistaken, and the bomb explodes anyway. A year later, in San Francisco, two cops — Ray Nettles (Tom Sizemore) and his partner Art "Fuzzy" Rice (Nas) are driving around talking. Nettles and Fuzzy are narcotics cops. Nettles is a cop on the edge. His wife and son were killed by a bomb. Ever since then, he has lost his enthusiasm for his job, hygiene, and life in general. When the two are dispatched to a crime scene where Irish mad bomber Alex Swann (Dennis Hopper) and his gang are hiding; Fuzzy ends up getting killed and one of the gang, HotScientist Claire (Jaime Pressly) is arrested. Swann escapes. He starts planting bombs all over the city, and demands that unless the police release Claire, he will detonate one every hour, killing hundreds of civilians. Nettles and Glass team up to stop him.

* After causing so much death and destruction with his bombs, [[spoiler:Swann gets blown up himself, courtesy of a car bomb planted by Claire]].
* Surprisingly enough, averted by Artie, who nearly gets shot dead by Vershbow, but gets saved when Nettles kills Vershbow first. After that, their whole conflict is forgotten about.

* KarmicDeath: Surprisingly enough, averted by Artie, who nearly gets shot dead by Vershbow, but gets saved when Nettles kills Vershbow first. After that, their whole conflict is forgotten about.

* BombDisposal: The main theme of the film. It gets discussed early on by Nettles and Glass, as the former accuses the bomb disposal squad of being content to sit on their asses and let people get blown up, while the latter points out that they can't exactly defuse a bomb if they don't even know where it is.

* HighHeelFaceTurn: After helping Nettles track down Swann, Claire suddenly turns on the police and joins up with him again in the latter stages of the film.

%%* BombDisposal: The main theme of the film.

The film opens with a hostage situation at the house of a United States Senator. A bomb has been planted somewhere within. Frank Glass (StevenSeagal) is in charge of the bomb squad out to diffuse it. Alas, once it seems they've succeeded, they turn out to be mistaken, and the bomb explodes anyway. A year later, in San Francisco, two cops — Ray Nettles (Tom Sizemore) and his partner Art "Fuzzy" Rice (Nas) are driving around talking. Nettles and Fuzzy are narcotics cops. Nettles is a cop on the edge. His wife and son were killed by a bomb. Ever since then, he has lost his enthusiasm for his job, hygiene, and life in general. When the two are dispatched to a crime scene where Irish mad bomber Alex Swann (Dennis Hopper) and his gang are hiding; Fuzzy ends up getting killed and one of the gang, HotScientist Claire (Jaime Pressly) is arrested. Swann escapes. He starts planting bombs all over the city, and demands that unless the police release Claire, he will detonate one every hour, killing hundreds of civilians. Nettles and Glass team up to stop him.

'''''Ticker''''' is a 2001 action film directed by Albert Pyun.

* PlayingAgainstType / NonActionGuy: Steven Seagal is not only merely the second main character; he doesn't throw a single punch or shoot a single gun until around the last 15 minutes of the film.

* BombDisposal: The main theme of the film.
* HotScientist: Claire.

* StuffBlowingUp
* TimeBomb: Lots of em.

* SanFrancisco:

* SanFrancisco: Supposedly. This troper can't recall ever seeing the Golden Gate Bridge or anything; the place is borderline unrecognizable.