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Actors: Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu, Gregg Henry, Talisa Soto
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever |
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Gant, an FBI agent turned criminal creates a micro device that can be injected into a person and can kill them with the push of a button. He injects it into his stepson to smuggle it into the country.
Gant's adversary, Sever, a rogue DIA agent kidnaps the stepson to get to Gant.
Ecks, an ex FBI agent was friends with Gant until Gant tried to and thought he had killed him to take his wife and son for himself.
Ecks thought his wife was dead until his old boss informed him otherwise. He's tapped to catch Sever, who can tell him where his wife is. He learns that his wife is with Gant. He meets with his wife, Vinn, and learns that the boy is his son. He helps her run away from Gant and they team up with Sever to stop Gant.
Gant goes after them with a small army of men.
Ecks and Sever kill all of the men. Ecks takes his family and leaves Sever to deal with Gant in her own way.
Sever, after having extracted the micro device from the boy, attached it to a bullet and shot Gant in the arm with it. Then, with the push of a button, the device cuts into Gant's heart and kills him.
--Brandon Swenson, Resident Scholar
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Jeremiah Ecks is a grungy-looking retired FBI agent still distraught over the death of his wife Vinn who was killed in a car explosion several years ago. Ecks hears again from his former boss Julio Martin but he is not interested in joining back with the team anymore. But Martin informed Ecks that his wife is not dead after all, but withhold more information until the former agent investigate about a special device in the hands of Robert Gant. Ecks also has to find out who is behind the kidnapping of Gant's son Michael. Robert Gant aka Agent Clark is head of DIA government and husband of Ecks supposedly deceased wife!
Ex agent Sever is the kidnapper of Gant's son. A former assassin/operative once worked for Gants' shady DIA agency that created a deadly microscopic device that is injected in the human body; making one believe a person died of a heart attack and not a assassination.
Though Gant has the destructable tool in his possession, Sever wants it for her own personal reasons. She will give the boy back to his mother only for the exchange for Gant, as she wants him dead after his involvement in the tragic death of her family.
Meanwhile Jeremiah along with his partner Henry Lee finally tracked Sever. The two disdain agents now face each other. Among their fighting to destroy the other, Ecks and Sever realized they are not exactly enemies. Jeremiah learns that Sever knows more than she does about his wife whereabouts. Ecks and Severs both make peace with each other; now they are after the same person- Robert Gant.
--Alicia M., Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- finding an assassin
Combat acrobatics/martial arts?
Yes
Kind of movie
- combat acrobatics/bullet time
The terrorist enemy is...
- spies
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- private investigator
- unemployed
Age:
- 20's-30's
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
- Hispanic/Latinic
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- average (woman)
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 80%
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Chinese
- Japanese
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- government investigator
- mastermind
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
- mean, arrogant
Setting
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Canada
City?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- in awe
- all mixed up
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 5 (an average amount)
Kind of violence:
- mission to destroy something
- hand to hand
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
- visually blown into pieces
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
- Some foul language
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Techno/disco
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