History YMMV / BallisticEcksVsSever

* ClicheStorm: The biggest factor into its negative reputation. The movie didn't do anything profound or new with its genre and only relied on every single trope and trappings exist in the action movies of its time. Therefore, there is nothing much home to write about.

-->[[https://consequence.net/2022/09/ballistic-ecks-vs-sever-why-its-bad/3/ William Bibbiani]]: "This was not the worst movie I’ve ever seen -- it’s neither completely incompetent nor offensive to the senses and/or sensibilities -- but it is that rare movie with almost nothing to recommend it."

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Robert Gant]] is the corrupt head of the DIA who wants to corner the assassin marker with killer [[{{Nanomachines}} nanobots]]. Gant is responsible for stealing the families of both lead characters, one metaphorically, one literally; Gant conducts an elaborate ruse to fake the death of Jeremiah Ecks so he could marry Ecks's wife and use their son as an incubator for the nanobots, and murdered Sever's entire family after she "broke profile" from the trained killer she was supposed to be. [[ItsAllAboutMe Obsessed with power and profit]], Gant [[BadBoss murders his own minions]]; trains little girls like Sever as [[TykeBomb killers]]; endangers and threatens to murder his adopted family; and has no qualms causing mass death so long as he gets something out of it.

--> [[https://consequence.net/2022/09/ballistic-ecks-vs-sever-why-its-bad/3/ William Bibbiani]]: "This was not the worst movie I’ve ever seen — it’s neither completely incompetent nor offensive to the senses and/or sensibilities — but it is that rare movie with almost nothing to recommend it."

--->"When you're getting worse reviews than your Game Boy adaptation, you know you're in trouble.”

* CriticalBacklash: Infamous as one of the worst movies of all time (among Website/RottenTomatoes' [[MedalOfDishonor 0% club]], it also ranks as statistically the worst-reviewed with 118 critics panning it), [[BileFascination and that's led to some curiosity over the years]], and in turn mild re-evaluation of its badness. Take a gander at general audience reviews over the years, and an increasingly common trend is saying that it's "not ''as'' bad as they say", being bad in a mostly generic and mediocre way rather than being "offensively" bad.

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: In a rare case of the video game adaptation receiving vastly better reviews than the movie it was based on, ''Ecks vs. Sever'' for UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance was praised by many for being a very good first-person shooter for the handheld, with a unique dual perspective feature (players could play the game as Ecks or Sever, the story changing from their perspective). Oddly enough, the game was developed and released before the film even began production. To quote Website/RottenTomatoes:
-->"When you're getting worse reviews than your Game Boy adaptation, you know you're in trouble.”

** The game also got a sequel, confusingly titled ''Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever'', which follows the film's plot more closely and was released only a couple of days before the film. In Europe, the game was given the less confusing title ''Ecks vs. Sever II: Ballistic''. While reviews were slightly more mixed than the previous game, it was still a ''major'' far cry from how the movie was received.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Robert Gant]] is the corrupt head of the DIA who wants to corner the assassin marker with killer nanobots. Gant is responsible for stealing the families of both lead characters, one metaphorically, one literally; Gant conducts an elaborate ruse to fake the death of Jeremiah Ecks so he could marry Ecks's wife and use their son as an incubator for the nanobots, and murdered Sever's entire family after she "broke profile" from the trained killer she was supposed to be. [[ItsAllAboutMe Obsessed with power and profit]], Gant [[BadBoss murders his own minions]]; trains little girls like Sever as [[TykeBomb killers]]; endangers and threatens to murder his adopted family; and has no qualms causing mass death so long as he gets something out of it.

** The game also got a sequel, confusingly titled ''Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever'', which follows the film's plot more closely and was released only a couple of days before the film. In Europe, the game was given the less confusing title ''Ecks vs. Sever II: Ballistic''.

* AwardSnub: Surprisingly. Despite being universally panned and considered one of the worst movies ever, it was not even nominated for, let alone a winner of, a single UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward.

* FridgeLogic: We could list every instance, but really, saying "the entire movie" covers this trope well enough.

-->"When you're getting worse reviews than your Game Boy adaptation, you know you're in trouble.

-->"When you're getting worse reviews than your Game Boy adaptation, you know you're in trouble."
* SnarkBait: When your movie has the most reviews for anything with a zero on Rotten Tomatoes, it's automatically this.
* SoBadItsGood: For some people.

* EpicFail: [[BoxOfficeBomb The film bombed disastrously at the box office, earning only $19,924,033 against a $70 million budget.]] Not only that, it has a 0% on Rottem Tomatoes... ''based on 118 reviews,'' '''''[[MedalOfDishonor making it the worst reviewed film in the history of that site!]]'''''

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The film had a climactic fight between [[Franchise/StarWars Ray]] [[Film/XMen Park]] and [[Series/CharliesAngels Lucy]] [[Film/KillBill Liu]], a world-class stuntman and an actress who can fight more convincingly than most of her peers. If it were better-choreographed (well, if '''anything''' in the movie had been competent), it would have been ''epic''.

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: In a rare case of the video game adaptation receiving vastly better reviews than the movie it was based on, ''Ecks vs. Sever'' for UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance was praised by many for being a very good first-person shooter for the handheld, with a unique dual perspective feature (players could play the game as Ecks or Sever, the story changing from their perspective). Oddly enough, the game was developed and released before the film even began production. To quote Rotten Tomatoes:

* AwardSnub: Surprisingly. Despite being universally panned and considered one of the worst movie of all-time. It has not been nominated and/or won at least a single Razzie award.
* FridgeLogic: We could list them all, but really, saying "the entire movie" covers this trope well enough.

--> "When you're getting worse reviews than your Game Boy adaptation, you know you're in trouble."

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The CGI rockets in this 2002 film would have been laughably bad in 1982. The air cannon that fires the wheel off of the CarCushion is clearly visible as well.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The film had a climactic fight between [[Franchise/StarWars Ray]] [[Film/XMen Park]] and [[Series/CharliesAngels Lucy]] [[Film/KillBill Liu]], a world-class stuntman and an actress who can fight more convincingly than most of her peers. If it were better-choreographed, it would have been ''epic.''