Synopsis
Jonathan 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.
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Cast
- Antonio BanderasAgent Jeremiah Ecks
- Lucy LiuAgent Jane Sever
- Gregg HenryRobert Gant / Agent Clark
- Ray ParkAgent A.J. Ross
- Talisa SotoVinn Ecks / Rayne Gant
- Miguel SandovalJulio Martin
- Terry ChenAgent Harry Lee
- Roger CrossZane
- Sandrine HoltAgent Bennett
- Steve BacicAgent Fleming
Recommendations
- 30
TV Guide Magazine
The tiny, impassive-faced Liu is a disaster. She looks cute in her custom commando gear, but she's not actress enough to make Sever's ridiculous, faux hard-boiled dialogue sound like anything but the formulaic nonsense it is. - 25
Miami Herald
Sometimes it seems as though Hollywood can't make a decent action movie anymore. Now that's a thought to make you go ballistic. - 25
New York Daily News
To pay for all the explosions and stunt work, the filmmakers must have decided to skimp on the screenplay. The rule of thumb is that one page of script equals one minute of movie, but there is so little dialogue in Ballistic that it could have been written on a matchbook. - 25
Baltimore Sun
The collateral damage of action products like Ballistic is to the sensibility of the audience. - 20
Variety
Remote, non-involving and finally incomprehensible. - 20
The A.V. Club
Looks like a video-game promo, has a story that plays like the fifth episode of a struggling syndicated action show, and feels like a headache waiting to happen. - 12
Boston Globe
Banderas slums through this dollar-bin action flick wearing the same look of wiped-out exasperation that Danny Glover's Sergeant Murtaugh sports in each installment of ''Lethal Weapon.'' And like Murtaugh, Banderas might be too old for this, too. - 10
Washington Post
You could run this film backward, soundtrack included, and it would make no less sense. --It's almost completely uninvolving, as well as being impenetrable.
