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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 0012236122579
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 13, 2001
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 28188
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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When a mad bomber (Dennis Hopper) descends on San Francisco it's up to two men to uncover his plot and find the massive bomb hidden somewhere in the city. Steven Seagal stars as the Zen leades of the bomb squad and Tom Sizemore is a vice cop out for vengeance. Featurning special appearance by pop sensation Chilli.
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Rating:  - Clear The Room! It's A Bomb!
Maybe I'm being just the tiniest bit hard on "Ticker". Yes, I know that it was made on a meager $600,000 budget, but that doesn't excuse it for me. Yes, I know that filming time was limited to twelve days (no joke), but I can't look past it. And yes, I know that it was directed by the ultimate B-movie hack, Albert Pyun ("Nemesis", "Cyborg")...but could he really have done no better for a man of his experience?
The story, in short:
San Francisco is plagued by the antics of a dangerous demolitions expert (Dennis Hopper, "Speed"), pursued by Ray Nettles (Tom Sizemore, "Saving Private Ryan") - a vengeful detective looking to avenge the death of his partner (Nasir "Nas" Jones) - and the city's bomb squad, led by the Zen-practicing martial artist Frank Glass (Steven Seagal, "Exit Wounds"). They must seize the criminal before his plot to rain destruction down on the entire city is realized.
For starters, even though this is a movie of diverse theatrical talent - including Jaime Pressly ("My Name is Earl") as the bomber's girlfriend - the acting leaves very, very much to be desired: the fact that "Mumbles" Seagal gives a performance to cry about is a given, but not only does Sizemore lose his edge in between shouting at Nas and Pressly, but the usually-adamant Dennis Hopper features the most amazing disappearing accent. Yes, a disappearing accent - he's Irish in one scene, and not Irish in another. No rhyme or reason to it. I hate to say it, but no-name actress Linda Castro ... Read More
Rating: - Seagal Gets Closer To His infamous Direct To Video World
After Exit Wounds Success I was hoping to see Seagal doing another good theatrical film, instead he gives us this excuse for a movie. First of all Seagal does not play the main character here; Tom Sizemore takes the lead as an over the top cop. Secondly either Segal did this before Exit Wounds or he ate a lot of cheeseburgers to gain all the weight he had lost. Seriously I really wanted to see Segal continue the shape he had in Exit Wounds, instead he cheats us by playing a small role, that barely has screen time, and is usually sitting in a chair.
In this flick Tom Sizemore plays Ray Nettles, a cop on the edge, who is on the look for vengeance after his family was killed in an automobile explosion. He is on the look for any incident that matches what happened to his family. Shortly in the film we are introduce to Swann (Denis Hopper) a mad Terrorist of Irish decent..now there's the problem I cant accept that Dennis Hopper, a Kansas born actor playing an Irish; he did a good job in Speed for playing a similar part, makes sense why they chose him for the part, but why Irish. In the other hand one of Swan's men has a better Irish accent then him. Anyways, Sizemore finds Swann's girl and takes her into custody. He begins to question her on Swans motive and possible targets. She of course refuses to give any information, possibly due to fear of being killed by Swann. Sizemore's move now is to find the best bob squad in the business, and of course that'd be Mr. Puffy Face, Nappy Hair Seagal. ... Read More
Rating: - Below standard filming with above standard casting
One might feel they have to force themselves through an action film of this caliber. The fact that it has such screen stars as Dennis Hopper and Tom Sizemore in it does not help much when the characters they play are shallow and pointless. For an action film it is pretty bad in many areas, particularly the production, which has "ATF" agents with uniforms that look like they were bought at a farm store and had duct tape applied on the back for the Lettering. Sizemore and Hopper do their best but it is not enough to save this film. Seriously, if one is looking for an action film that covers the themes in here, there would be many better to pick from.
Ticker had potential with the plot but half the time the actors are given simple one-liners and minimal scenes to act out frustration or worry, further taking away any credibility one would have with the daunting situations they face. Steven Seagal is almost meaningless in this movie, and although he had his fifteen seconds of fame early in his career, it seems everything he has done since then has been less than filler.
Rating: - Awful waste of good talent......disappointing.
I watch this movie thinking it would another Speed type film, which is a compliment, but this was bad. Bad meaning why would anyone have big names like this and squander it with bad script and direction. Dennis was so unbelievable even trying to act like a lunatic bomber, if that is even possible given that he did such a wonderful job in Speed. Now i am a big Seagal fan but why is he moving his lips so much in this movie when he is not doing the dialog? Was that even intentional or he forgot his chapstick cause i can't even tell. There is some suspense so i'll give it that but it didn't hold my interest enough because at this point, i really didn't care.
Not recommended!
Rating: - What the heck happened here!
I'm not a movie expert. I just like Movies.....
This film has lots of well known actors. But the thing that strikes me is: 1) The sound is wrong, 2) the cutting is wrong, 3) the direction is wrong, 4) post production editing is wrong.....
When you watch this it seems like it could be a good movie, but it just does not make it. Never seen a film with so many A/B list actors that was so poorly made. Just sad really.....
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