Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is a 2002 action film directed by Wych Kaosayananda which stars (in case you didn't notice)
Antonio Banderas and
Lucy Liu.
Michael, the son of Defense Intelligence Agency director Robert Gant (Gregg Henry), is kidnapped by rogue agent
Sever (Liu). Former agent Jeremiah Ecks (Banderas) is called in to fight Sever and get Michael back.
This film provides examples of:
- Action Girl: Sever.
- Backwards Firing Gun: The big bad tricks a lackey into killing himself by giving him a backwards firing pistol.
- Blatant Lies: The movie is titled Ecks vs. Sever, but they are never enemies in the film and are in fact on the same side by the end.
- California Doubling: Weirdly inverted and subverted by being both set in and filmed in Vancouver but not featuring any landmarks from there, and generally appearing to be a completely different place.
- Car Cushion
- Cool Versus Awesome: The whole point of the movie.
- Dual Wielding: Sever, with a pair of telescopic batons.
- Excuse Plot: Face it, you watched this for the action scenes. The plot's just a hanger for the fights.
- Gambit Pileup
- Luke, I Am Your Father: It turns out in the end that Michael is in fact Ecks' son.
- Mama Bear: Liu/Sever does what she does to get revenge on Gant for him killing her own husband and daughter.
- Mandatory Unretirement: Ecks.
- Nano Machine: The MacGuffin is a microscopic robot that is injected into the blood via a dart and which can subsequently induce fatal migraines, strokes, and things such as that.
- Plot Hole: Multiple.
- Rule Of Cool
- Stuff Blowing Up: The ending, set at a railyard, would give Michael Bay a run for his money.
- Television Geography: Averted.
- Versus Title
- What Measure Is a Mook?: Sever guns down dozens of DIA agents and security guards during the course of the film, and not only does no one care, but in the end, someone says of her: "She's a killer.", prompting Ecks to reply: "She's a mother."
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: The director is listed in the credits as "Kaos."
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