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Michael Gould There's a throw-away line where they say the FBI's part of some multinational task force and are working on behalf of local authorities. Or something like that.
7:52 Julio: "You're sweating." Ross: "It's been raining." Yet, there's absolutely no moisture on Ross' head whatsoever. Could this production not afford water?
Joseph Neva Lol I remember reading a review that said that the budget was actually spent on lap-dances for the cast and crew to keep them on board the production 😂.
Lucy Liu commented that during the filming of this movie she often had no idea what was going on. She remembers being told to run a lot , having no idea why she was running or at what point in the story it was. She herself would joke about Ecks vs. Sever being the worst movie ever made. Your video is the most I've ever seen of it and I'm beginning to understand why.
I watched this film years ago and two things stuck with me. 1. The insane amount of RANDOM slow-mo 2. That simultaneous 2 car barrel roll. Replayed that scene like 300 times.
When this movie came out on video, my mom rented it and my brother made fun of it the whole time. It was hilarious. But a couple months later, my mom forgot we already saw it and rented it again! Didn't leave much of an impact I guess.
My mother did that with Toejam and Earl when I was a kid. She must've rented it like, 3 or 4 times because that name is just so catching, yet she didn't play games so she never remembered actually renting it for us. XD
@@nothingforgrantedPS23 My brother? Well the least offensive way to describe it is he was riffing like the not very bright Director of the film. We were assholes back then.
Man.... I fucking bought into the hype of EVERY movie during that Era, but I was too young for my mom to let me watch it lol(born in 94) This movie, and "Cradle 2 tha grave" are the two that I can VIVIDLY remember the trailers for, and have always been meaning to get around to watching as an adult lol The plot to Cradle 2 the grave was literally "bad guy steals diamonds that actually power up a super powered laser weapon" lol
@@pchtommy1268 There are lots "of great movies from 2000s" and nobody is disputing that. Nobody is even disputing that there are some great action films from the 2000s. What the OP said was the 2000s weren't really a good time for action movies as a lot tried to copy The Matrix which is also not in dispute. So, to quote you... "the hell you talking about" as you seem to have missed literally every point the OP made.
13:35 I also love how the car she steals conveniently has BAD on its license plate, in case we forgot we are upposed to think she is the baddie. Such thoughtful filmmaking 😆
For the longest time, I was worried that no one was ever going to review this Z-grade film ever again. What a joy it is to see someone review it again 😎! It is quite amazing at how terrible this big-budget flop is.
And at least the Stunts in Ballistic Eck vs Sever, were real. Ultra Violet has too many scenes that are bad CGI . And I mean Bad by the standards of the time that Ultra Violet came out in.
@@danielfonville1840 It was pretty impressive. Ray Park's martial arts experience, body language and facial expression provided a lot. But Peter Serafinowicz was the voice dubbed over Ray Park's lines. They joked during interviews that Ray park was physically intimidating but the moment he opened his mouth, his tiny voice would make people laugh.
Darth Maul was definitely terrifying. And the fact that he essentially doesn’t say a word throughout the entire film (except for that phrase at the beginning) made him even scarier. I still remember the scene when he walks from side to side and grins after killing Qui-Gon.
There were two GBA games! I had the original, just called Ecks vs. Sever, which was released before the movie and based on an early script. The Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever version came out along with the movie. I have not played the latter.
I actually thought the movie was based on that GBA game... turns out they held the movie back and the game came out anyway. Both were shite so no worries.
Fun Fact about this movie: Agent Sever was originally written to be played by a man. The film's original stars were Wesley Snipes and Jet Li, then Vin Diesel and Sylvester Stallone.
Haha I love how so many movies are filmed in Vancouver but passed off as some other city, and this one is one of the few that actually is set in Vancouver but it's terrible. Sorry Vancouver.
Not hard to understand. Any Canadian actor who wants to make money goes to America. Any American company that wants to save money filming goes to Canada.
I once quit doing mechanic work. Thought i was happy, just smoking brisket and making my own BBQ sauce. But in the back of my mind, i knew something was missing. Then it happened. My old boss from years ago called me. He needed me for one more job. He sent 2 goons to rough me up. I beat the shit outta them with a fire poker that i use to...poke wood around in the firebox. The he came from the corner of my house, and said, "Oh, Hi Mark." So i went back, and started working on cars again.
I believe it's a travesty that this gentleman, Mark, only has a hundred thousand subscribers. He should have well over a million. His content is that good and unlike a lot of RU-vidrs out there, he actually does his research before releasing his content
It turns out the GBA game, based on an early version of the script, actually explains both the pills scene *and* "Why is FBI dude using Ecks over literally any current FBI agent?" There Ecks turned to drugs after the "death" of his wife and son (already born in that version, and their survival is so tacked on it could have just been cut entirely), and since his official retirement the FBI dude has regularly been using him as a deniable, expendable agent in exchange for supporting his habit. This also in turn explains why an FBI agent is getting involved in spy plots in the first place. Why were these cut from the movie? Don't know! GBA plot still isn't *good* ("You killed a bunch of innocent law enforcement, but the bad guy was behind everything so you're free to go!") but it can be understood as a series of events. The movie version doesn't even have that.
I attended Comic Con in San Diego back in 2002 and remember watching the panel discussion of this movie. It was just Lucy Liu and Ray Park on stage trying to hype a film that seemed very uninteresting even to them. Banderas had "other commitments." At least Lucy was nice to look at, but I wish Talisa Soto had been there. After it was done, I recall looking at my brother next to me and we both just shrugged our shoulders. A year later I learned what a disaster this was when I watched it on cable. Shockingly bad. Great vid Mark.
I always appreciate the effort you put into these reviews, they're hilarious and almost relaxing entertainment. This movie specifically I'd completely forgotten about but I remember thinking the name of it was the dumbest thing I'd ever heard, and after that I never heard about it again, until now. I just don't know why they chose that name. I can't imagine Lethal Weapon: Riggs VS Murtaugh or Casino Royale: Bond VS Lechief
9:41 Okay, I'm assuming Ecks had to smuggle his pills into the car and used a camera as a cover in this scene. Because if not, that means someone in the props department was too lazy to get an actual pill bottle, and used a FILM CANISTER instead.
Lady Marmalade - They spent all the money in explosions... There was no more for pill bottle (that's probably why there was no pills for the rest of the movie...) 😂😂
@@brianaguilar8283 I think the movie was trying to imply that he's an addict and has been trying to hide those pills from the department, but then again I'm probably a better writer than whoever made this.
This amazing script was written by a guy named Alan B. McElroy... who also wrote several episodes of _Star Trek: Discovery_ (which actually makes perfect sense)
That roof top fight scene feels like it's mostly the rehearsal that got filmed, then Producers said to cut it, so they never finished shooting, so when Producers said to add it in after a screening they just took what they could out of the rehearsal footage where several blows clearly miss by a foot and used weird slo-mo and stares to fill out the time. Also, someone is firing a high powered machine gun and Ecks walks towards the fire to pick up his handgun first? BS.
Here's some suggestions: Dune Freddy got Fingered Reefer Madness Nor orchids for miss blandish Plan 9 from outer space How do you know? United passions The avengers (1998) I spit on your grave Caligula
Dune is a bit of a mess due to it being cut to ribbons (and well it is David Lynch too), but its well watchable, and follows the story fairly well. Would still love to see a good remake of it now, its a tremendous book and deserves justice on the big screen.
Yeah heard he was doing it, and after the supposedly great work he has done on the Bladerunner sequel, I hope he can do it the way he wants to. If he can, we could finally have a Dune screen version that works and truly fills out that epic universe.
TBH your all probably the type of person to say " we all deserve equal rights " which I agree with but two hours after you shout " women are more superior then men!! "
+Trev 8 I was going to actually explain that but by the time I remembered it was almost 12 am so I didn't really bother what I was going to say was " either your all joking.. or your just plain sexist "
Okay the blowing up the car part is actually the only part that DOES make sense. The second car was blown up to make Ecks think his WIFE had also similarly died (in case he survived, i assume?), and so he wouldn't come looking for her, i guess. That's an unreasonable contingency to plan for, but at least Gant is thorough, i guess...
"Two of our marks are fighting on top of a store, what should we do?!" "I know, let's take two men up to a roof 500 meters away with heavy machine guns and shoot wildly into the store's roof!" Outstanding
Fun fact: This boring-ass movie had not one, but two video game tie-ins. The first (Ecks Vs. Sever) was a first-person shooter for the Gameboy Advance and it garnered good reviews. It was based on an early draft of the script and due to the film's pre-production hang-ups, the game came out before the movie. The second game, Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever, came out after the film's release and followed closer to the film's plot. It got decidedly less-positive reviews.
That super bland henchmen is actually Ray Park, otherwise known as DARTH MAUL. Now you can see why his lines in Phantom Menace were dubbed by another actor.
how did youget through this review without once mentioning the names lucy liu and antonio banderas? Is that intentional? I would have thought the star cast, production value and cinematic release would be relevant, given how a lot of your reviews are for straight to video crap starring unknowns.
The worst part of this movie is its regular bad. So bland you'll feel sorry for wasting your time but won't be able to adequately explain to friends just how terrible it was. If it were much worse you could laugh at it and talk about it with other people, and laugh again. But its not in that super bad territory that makes it fun to look back on years later.
I have to wonder if the reason they called Parks' Character "Prince of Darkness" is just a very on-the-nose way of referencing that he played Darth Maul in Episode 1. Like, he _was_ actually the Prince (Apprentice) of Darkness (Sidious) in that movie.
When this movie came out in 2002, it was plastered everywhere on billboards, newspaper feature, TV ads, etc. I thought it was gonna be a cool badass movie just looking at the poster, it’s got Lucy Liu from Kill Bill and Antonio Banderas from Mask of Zorro even… but for some strange unexplained reason I didn’t feel compelled to watch it. Now I know why and good thing I passed it.
Fun fact: There's actually a Game Boy Advanced video game called Ecks vs. Sever that came before this movie was made and was based around early script of the movie. It's sequel is called Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever which in turn shared the same name as the movie source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecks_vs._Sever
I remember my cousin had this game and it was fucking unplayable. But I tried so goddamn hard to play it, solely because my mom wouldn't let me watch the movie so I figured the video game was as close as I'd ever get to watching it lol
Prince of darkness is a hilariously edgy nickname. How does a film with Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu in the title roles, suck so bad? How do you get noted action movie people and make a bad action movie??? I'm surprised that the fight scenes aren't at least vaguely interesting.
I'm a Lucy Liu fan but she did seem bored throughout. There was a good movie inside this mess but it never survived. Sever could have been an awesome character.
9:12 The movie had a very, very messy post-production. The original editor and composer were both fired, and the director was locked out of the Final Cut. He hasn’t worked in the US since, and even said in a 2014 interview that he’s never seen the Final Cut of the film in its entirety. On a podcast from earlier this year, he also heavily implied that the studio fraudulently inflated his the budget for a tax write-off (which the studio WAS actually convicted for doing on another movie, in 2007).
I love the fact that just before those cars explode that you can clearly see that it's raining but no one appears to be getting wet. Also, IMDB says that the director is "Wych Kaosayananda (as Kaos)". Kaos is VERY appropriate for his direction.
Wait: if she shot micro-robot thing into the guy, wasn't easier just to SHOT him in the heart and kill him? And how fast is that fucking thing? a nano-robot moving from the arm to the heart probably would take minutes if not hours
Ecks vs Sever wasn’t nominated at the Razzies. But if it was, it would be nominated for • Worst Picture • Worst Director - Wych “i can’t pronounce his name but i don’t care” • Worst Screenplay • Worst Actor - Antonio Banderas • Worst Actress - Lucy Liu • Worst Screen Couple - Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu • Worst Supporting Actor - Ray Park • Worst Supporting Actress - Talisa Soto • Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel (for being an ugly and blatant rip-off of better action films) On the plus side, the Game Boy version of Ballistic received much better ratings
The more you think about this bizarre fever dream, the less sense it makes. You didn't even mention (though understandable - with most viewers still trying to make sense of the already overwhelming plot holes) the fact that the movie is set in Vancouver, BC - yet we have multiple AMERICAN federal agencies carrying out massive operations and leaving a trail of carnage and collateral damage (Like emptying LMG's in the middle of downtown Vancouver) on CANADIAN SOIL... Wtf? Of the infinite amount of movies that film here, pretending it's an American city, why did this have to be the movie where they actually acknowledge it's Vancouver lol, what an embarrassing showcase of my hometown.
Another thing that always bugs me (as if it's the only thing) is how could ecks hack into the DIA server to get info of sever when the DIA had literally no idea who she was in the first place? Did they just put up some files in a day or something?
