Quartile rating: 4.5/10 · 1 rating
Jeremiah Ecks, an FBI agent, realizes that he must join with his lifelong enemy, Agent Sever, a rogue DIA agent with whom he is in mortal combat, in order to defeat a common enemy. That enemy has developed a "micro-device" that can be injected into victims in order to kill them at will.
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is widely regarded as one of the worst action films ever made. The plot is incoherent and poorly structured, failing to generate meaningful tension or coherent character motivations. The acting is wooden and lifeless, with even capable performers like Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu delivering flat performances. Cinematography is passable but unremarkable, with action sequences that are visually muddy rather than exciting. The nanotechnology/spy thriller premise isn't particularly novel given the era. The ending resolves nothing satisfyingly and is largely nonsensical. The film holds a rare 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and is considered a benchmark of Hollywood excess and failure.