Ticker (2001)

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.

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. Segal plays Glass, The leader of an elite Bob Squad. Glass and Nettles will join forces to stop these maniacs from killing hundreds or possibly thousands of civilians.

Seagal had very little interested in playing this part, you can obviously tell by his lack motivation in lines. The good thing the movie has is that Seagal's voice is not dubbed nor enhanced; and there aren't any doubles in the fights...but the fights are plain bad, there really is only one fight with Seagal, and its short, quick and too dark. This is really not worth neither owning nor renting. I guess you could wait for it to be shown on cable; the last time they gave it was on the USA network.

MY PERSONAL RATING: 1 ½ OUT OF 5

August 3, 2008

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.
August 26, 2007

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! August 25, 2007

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..... August 27, 2006

Oh man it's bad

It's called Ticker because you'll be staring at the clock! This is one mess of a movie. It was probably shelved and then released as an afterthought. The movie looks like a bunch of scenes spliced together after-the-fact; it's pretty incoherent. A bunch of dumb, annoying rappers pop in and out, Dennis Hopper plays himself as usual, and Seagal walks around talking about bombs and zen and proffering sage advice, such as "You need to get beyond hope and fear brother. When you get to know your own mind you'll stop suffering." I'm not knockin him, he's the only entertaining part of the film. Here's the only good exchange in the whole movie: "You ever heard of the 12 steps to enlightenment?" "No, but I know about the 12 steps to recovery." Seagal fans be warned however, there are NO fight scenes in this film, just a bunch of lazy scripting. On an interesting sidenote, I once read an interview in which meth head Tom Sizemore said that he hates Steven Seagal's guts and would never, ever be in a picture with him. What happened? Just goes to show, never say never. January 4, 2006

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