The Worst Movie Ever: A Tale of Corruption and Studio Meddling

[@Suspect_Green]

Hey guys! First off, subs are available here so switch on closed captions if you like! Also, below is a few corrections of things I've learned after this video went up, so feel free to peruse: - The reason why the choreography is so poor in One Night in Bangkok is because Kaos was only given 4 hours to shoot the final scene. His budget was also super tight. - Production was moved to Vancouver due to one of the principals of Ballistic refusing to leave North America after 9/11.

[@stormshadowproductions1660]

you should review animated movies

[@Suspect_Green]

I should do something about animated flicks sometime. I don't talk about 'em enough :)

[@stormshadowproductions1660]

@@Suspect_Green I don't think you have EVER talked about ANY animated movie

[@Suspect_Green]

I did a Toy Story review! :)

[@padraigdon1657]

​@@Suspect_Green I recommend maybe make a list of movies that are bad rotten tomatoes scores but audience likes them like The Boondocks Saints and Law Abiding Citizen. Something like this video you did which I enjoyed! 😊

[@TetsuShima]

You truly must know how to make a movie ABYSMAL if you have Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu as the protagonists and yet no one finds fun of it. Simply wow

[@Suspect_Green]

Yeah, the life of 'em got sapped in this picture. Usually they're both such fun to watch. I can't get over how they wrote in an emotionless, assassin character and cast Lucy Liu for it.

[@15oClock]

Be good, be bad, be crazy, be brooding, be smart, be dumb, but for god’s sake, don’t be boring.

[@Flufux]

Reminds me of how in Thor the Dark World, they took a really fun and charismatic villain from the comics, hired Christopher Eccleston, a really fun and charismatic actor, to play him...and then somehow ended up with the most bland villain in the MCU.

[@ChefMattReviews]

That is until "Eternals" with the character Kro, the Deviants leader played by Bill Skarsgård. Up until Icarus turns during the climax, Kro was essentially the main antagonist and he was so underwhelming, I had to look up his name just to figure out what it was.

[@BenChanNYC]

I thought it was enjoyable as a stupid fun action movie. Far above "worst movie" category. There's gotta be a hundred movies worse than that, c'mon.

[@NewSuperAvenger]

There is a fanedit of the movie called Ballistic. It's only 55 minutes long that removes all the boring out of the movie and only keeps the action and whatever there's left of the plot. Also, they used the trailer music from Spider-Man (2002) in this movie.

[@0uttaS1TE]

You mean that one song that goes "I wanna take you on a rollercoaster"?

[@NewSuperAvenger]

@@0uttaS1TE No, the first trailer.

[@0uttaS1TE]

​@@NewSuperAvengerOhhh, ok. I got my trailers mixed up. Sorry

[@chrisossu2070]

The trailer for that recut by the way: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHiypqSGptl7ocUsi=y42JplDYv8zW-Kv8

[@TommyCollier]

@@chrisossu2070 the source for the movie is even in the bio

[@kieranhealy8279]

The two leads and the director deserved so much better.

[@iaincowell9747]

Lucy Liu doesn't deserve better, awful actress

[@eastvandb]

@@iaincowell9747 Wrong.

[@TheoreticalString]

I'm one of the... I dunno, 200,000 people who saw it, and the editing is so bad. So bad. There's one slowmo shot of their legs while they're walking. No explosions, it's not after a fight scene, they're just walking, and the camera goes into slo-mo. For like six seconds. It's incomprehensible. A chimpanzee could edit better than that.

[@availanila]

So true, everyone was done so wrong here! 😭

[@TroubleToby3040]

@@iaincowell9747 She is a deeply mediocre actress, for sure. Some people find her pretty and charming and just give her a pass as an actor.

[@TheDunnDusted]

I saw that X-Men blooper years ago and wondered what the hell it was. Was Tobey Maguire on set at the same time and decided to come on set as a prank? But this Lear guy now contextualises one of the biggest confusions I've ever had about a random clip on KZbin.

[@Suspect_Green]

Yeah, same here! I had seen the clip before and when I was researching about Leva, I had that lightbulb moment. Ohhh!! That was Leva!

[@Levyathyn]

Halfway through, when Samaha's face popped up, it was like getting hit with a jumpscare. Turns out I am within six degrees of that man, and my stepdad is in his direct family.

[@Double-R-Nothing]

Run.

[@jarjared3522]

Since Furiosa was shown... It hurts so much to see a beloved film bomb so horribly.

[@Suspect_Green]

I was quite surprised it got the green light as the original Fury Road under-performed as well. Still, sucks to see cos they're awesome.

[@intergalactic92]

@@Suspect_GreenI think they've all 'underperformed.' They are ridiculously expensive to make, and honestly don’t have as much mass appeal as people think. It’s always been more of a cult series than a mainstream one.

[@Perfect_Rice]

@@intergalactic92 The first Mad Max was very low budget and did so well on release it used to hold the record for most profitable movie ever (compared to its budget). Its box office was almost 500 times its budget.

[@gimzod76]

​@@Perfect_RiceThey paid some people in cases of beer didn't they?

[@windflare1637]

Critic and fan scores don't pay the studio's bills. The tickets do

[@EmeraldCityVideo]

OH MY GOD. The revelation that this guy's wife was Tia Carrere makes me REALLY curious about a running gag in the '90s indie mockumentary "20 Dates," where a corrupt and bumbling producer keeps trying to force Tia Carrere on the filmmaker.

[@willieacat]

That movie was also produced by Samaha who plays the producer in that film.

[@keijijohnson9754]

​@@willieacatAnd the plot thickens even more here...😅

[@Sonicjohnathon]

This is why I never trust big studios because they'll do stupid crap like this. Sometimes higher ups need to learn to keep to themselves instead of ruining someone's vision.

[@Suspect_Green]

Hear hear! Studio meddling rarely ends well.

[@dante_0962]

@@Suspect_GreenThat gives me a idea why don’t you do a video about studio meddling that actually made the film better.

[@SnarkyMcCarthy]

@@dante_0962Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Phil Lord & Chris Miller were told that the script was funny but was lacking story-wise. The solution was to repurpose the tackle shop owner as Flint’s father, giving the film the emotional core that brought it all home.

[@Heathcoatman]

Right? They take a person with a business or marketing degree and no actual artistic talent and put them in a position to override those who actually have artistic talent. What could go wrong? The Marvels and Wish maybe?

[@dustinyancey2194]

​@dante_0962 that would be a good video to do! So much examples to pull from in the films industry!

[@tlomazina]

what a rabbithole, never expected to have Darth Maul, Spider-Man and Uwe Boll in the same story. Great work!

[@safebox36]

What's bizarre is it had a video game that's actually pretty good. I think it's one of the few times a game tie-in has a higher score than the film.

[@NebLleb]

Oh, I know of another one: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, acting as a prequel to the film Pitch Black and tie-in with the eponymous sequel. The Chronicles of Riddick is often regarded as a case of sequelitis, but Butcher Bay was universally embraced, getting a rerelease-cum-sequel in 2009. It was also my first M-for-Mature game, meaning at the tender age of 13, I could indulge my inner bloodlust and pick up cigarette packs.

[@rowdycmoore]

The director named himself after the villain organization from Get Smart, How have I never heard of him before?

[@cbstevp]

His name Kaos is actually a shortened version of his real last Thai name

[@NatLaS]

@@cbstevpI’m fairly sure they know, as it was both said and shown in the video

[@wcg66]

I love Lucy Lui and Banderas. It really seems like the studio didn't grease the wheels of the review system.

[@davidwaring6815]

To believe that 2 people that were married would believe that they were both dead and not figuring it out is ridiculous. One the dumbest things I have ever seen in a movie.

[@dvass7253]

They took what would've otherwise been a perfectly decent action flick and turned it into a boring and incoherent mess. Another great video, Suspect! I would love to see more single-movie reviews like these in the future. Maybe you could do one next year on Fant4stic before the new FF flick comes out. Or Wes Craven's Cursed whose production history is quite a doozy in and of itself.

[@scaleproductions711]

I don’t normally watch films that have a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, but after watching your video, I think I’ll make an Ecks-ception. I’m sorry… I’m so so sorry.

[@Fury9er]

Groaaaan!

[@darwincity]

Fun fact about Elie Samaha: he was seemingly given an executive producers credit on Asterix at the Olympics WHILE HE WAS ON TRIAL because of his seemingly endless financial accumen. Plus, his name was mentioned in a trial related to the production of said movie and its endless supply of coke and hoes.

[@Goldsbro]

The funniest part about seeing this video is that my only experience with this movie at all is the GBA tie-in video game, and that is unironically the worst FPS I've ever played. 😅

[@CptVein]

oh man! I remember seeing this movie as a teenager and thinking it was bad. As a TEENAGER, young male you just wanted action, I was bored. This movie truly is bad.

[@Jamal-bl7yh]

The Worst Movie Ever In My Opinion Is Balls Out a raunchy Sex Crazed unfunny gross out comedy that centers around Flag Football that's straight out of the Early to Late 2000's but somehow released In 2015 this Is among several films I have regrets watching like Skid Marks, The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto, Postal, and Blood The Last Vampire

[@chaunceyfeatherstone6209]

As a palate cleanser, try The Jerky Boys. No, wait, I couldn't do that to anyone...

[@incitossol]

19:15 Hold up! Tom Cruise was gonna be Spidey? Damn the stunts on that film would’ve been as insane as that one fan film that had a guy literally swing around the outside of a building with nothing but the goddamn rope to hold him all because “he needed the shot”

[@Suspect_Green]

Funny to think in an alternate universe, Tom Cruise Spidey showed up in No Way Home, haha :)

[@JOSH-lw2jv]

Cannon's *"SPIDER-MAN"* would have also starred Bob Hoskins as Doc Ock & Stan Lee himself wanted to play J. Jonah Jameson.

[@jeremyhughes6020]

This movie has got to be the only film in existence set in Vancouver. They film everything here, but the setting is always somewhere else. I’m convinced they filmed this movie and just said “whatever, we filmed in Vancouver, that’s the setting”

[@BigBoris]

I was NOT ready for the rabbit hole this video sent me down #1Percent4EcksVsSever

[@jwconglomerate332]

When Antonio is sprinting between those explosions I always thought it looked like his face got burned to shit in real life.

[@jspaingreene6350]

Ecks vs Sever...I endured this piece of shit in the theatre. When I left, I was mad... It was so atrocious. It made zero sense. I was annoyed with the friend who wouldn't leave. But I sat through The Greasy Strangler a few years ago.. And that is the absolute worst thing I've seen. No one in my group would say they wanted to leave, thinking everyone else might be liking it... So we sat through the whole thing. Yuck. My husband still gets mad that we sat through it. It has a cult following.,. Which I don't understand.

[@solomonrichards599]

About the rating system on Rotten Tomatoes, you really can't trust the critic score anymore. Most of the professional critics there are in line with the big studios like Disney or Lucasfilm or even get paid by them and defend whatever they put out, no matter how bad it is. You can see that with like Star Wars' "The Acolyte" or the new season of Doctor Who, which are terrible and openly disrespect their legacy, put still have like a close near 100 critics score. It also has a pretty weird way of depending when a review is still considered "fresh". You really should trust the audience only. Or switch to using Letterboxd or iMDb, since those are much more reliable to determine quality. Now of course, something like Ballistic is of course terrible, but just in general. I don't trust professional film critics anymore.

[@Cooe.]

Trusting only the audience score is liable to review bombing campaigns from overly sensitive manchild incel losers who throw a pissy fit anytime someone does something new with IP they have some parasocial attachment to. 🤷 That's just as faulty a way to judge movies/TV. That said, the way you talk about "legacy" suggests you're probably part of just this group lol. People like you are the reason all we get are generic remakes and regurgitations nowadays. Nobody's willing to take risks with established IP anymore or god forbid risk the wrath of the sweaty redditors who can't remember what grass feels like.

[@deaddropholiday]

Over reporting budgets has been a thing perpetually in cinema. According to Amazon "Rings of Power" had a budget usually reserved for an experimental stealth bomber. But given that they essentially re-used the same sets repeatedly and hired a cast of bargain-basement thesps nobody believes that. It's the same story with the currently in-production "The Electric State" adapted from the Simon Stahlenhag graphic novel. The numbers are completely bonkers.

[@densealloy]

7:20 Trevor Rabin was also a member of the classic rock band Yes. He was the primary writer of their biggest hit "Owner of a lonely heart".

[@wolfen69]

Great video! Knowing how hard it is to even complete a film, shedding light on the passion involved here and the tremendous injustice is really appreciated.

[@mike9512]

I feel like this is one of those movies that when people complain about how the latest Disney project is the worst thing ever made, I think "have you seen other movies before??".

[@kato093]

She hulk, Aladdin, little mermaid, the acolyte and many more are much worse than ballistic and some other "worst ever" films. They just have a massive budget. Remove half the Disney budget and those movies would be in the worst movies ever lists, if they aren't already but I doubt it due to access journalism having everyone licking Disney's asshole like a chocolate chip ice cream.

[@mike9512]

@kato093 yeah, I disagree. The movies you listed have something good in them. And writing off people's opinions because you think they are sucking up to Disney, I would argue, is not great evidence. For Aladdin, that's almost 400 critic reviews and over 50 000 user reviews you are disregarding. Do you have any proof that those aren't legit?

[@kato093]

@@mike9512 yes. Everything disney is getting a pass because of access journalism and sponsors. Same for Amazon. As fir people reviews, sites like metacritic and rotten tomatoes literally changed their review system so they can control the narrative and remove negative reviews. I know for sure that many were fake good reviews from bots because they were single review accounts with the same exact review copy and pasted thousands of time in different languages too (and translated badly with Google translate. The Spanish and Italian ones made little sense and were just 1:1 with the English wording, which doesn't work many times). But that was years ago. Thanks to AI, they can EASILY post fake reviews and nobody would know. Most if X/Twitter is game AI posts. Tons of KZbin comments are fake posts as well. In fact, most of Twitter and KZbin comments are bots. Hell, might be the entirety of metacritic and rotten tomatoes could be bots too and maybe your own reviews can be seen only by you (it's what KZbin does when you get soft banned). And these tv shows and movies don't have anything good except the story behind the existing characters slightly resembling the original and a big budget. Well... WHEN you see the big budget, cuz she hulk looked awful and marvel pays so little that nobody of talent is willing to work on CGI for them so you get amateur trash like secret invasion.. or the Amazon lord of the rings show...no idea where all the money went (its a figure of speech. I know exactly where it all went, with how many diversity officers there were, it's like what happened with the Burn Loot Murder group). And do you seriously wanna tell me that black panther deserved a fkn Oscar?!? That was one of the few modern marvel movies that had something decent and it was a 5/10. And yet everyone jumped on it like it was the best movie ever made when the actual ending look like previs, some of the worst modern CGI I've ever seen in a big budget movie. Disney loses 2+ billion $ every year and yet the media is portraying them as if they make the best and most successful films.

[@deszalt4492]

​@mike9512 Majority of his comments on here could be summed up by "Disney woke therefore bad" disney sucks for a myriad of reasons but this is typical redpill whining

[@harryrabbit2870]

Typical corporate meddling. If the suits know so damned much about movie-making, why don't they do it themselves? Money people should just deal with raising the cash and distributing the entertainment and leave the art stuff to artists. Corporate structures are infamous for their cowardice and will NOT take the chances needed to make a new thing a great thing. It's the reason why modern movies SUCK.

[@theleaderturtle]

The only good Franchise Pictures movie in my opinion is The Boondock Saints, which is one of my all-time favorite movies. It has Norman Reedus, Willem Dafoe and Billy Connolly, and the sequel, Boondock Saints 2 All Saints Day also kicks ass.

[@noneofyourbusiness4616]

I saw part of their "In-Laws" remake on TV and it seemed likable.

[@theleaderturtle]

​@@noneofyourbusiness4616 I haven't seen it yet but I'm going to watch it when I get it on DVD.

[@albundy774]

Scott Leva was hired by Cannon not Marvel. The sets and props for the cancelled Spider-Man and the cancelled Masters of the Universe 2 movies were later used for Cyborg

[@exocolt15]

This has to be the biggest surprise of a “f@ck it I’ll watch it” video I’ve had on my feed. Never heard of this channel before and Wasn’t expecting anything of substance ngl but I really like it!

[@twrampage]

This is a real shame, because it looks like it could've easily been the sort of straightforward well shot action movie that I love.

[@MsJaytee1975]

I didn’t know there were still people who only knew Lucy Liu from Charlie’s Angels. She’s Watson to me.

[@andyenglish4303]

Liu has been in a lot of stuff.... she's not an obscure actress.

[@ikecarr5989]

Always remember her as the nasty gal from ALLEY MCBEEL.

[@archelonprime]

So... "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" had a chance of being a decent, if not good, action movie, but the producers (other than Kaos the director) tried to have it compete with "The Matrix" but without the quality REwriting it needed and budget that "The Matrix" had. 🤦‍♂ According to IMDb, it had an estimated $63M budget, which is vastly greater than the shockingly believable figure of $35M that Kaos mentioned and was stuck with, along with the other braindead limitations that were imposed upon him. Even if I could somehow overlook the evidence of... financial shadiness from Franchise Pictures, I have to wonder if Elie Samaha and his fellow big wigs were truly interested in making profitable productions.

[@gingerbreadgirlprod]

Franchise Pictures was not a studio. They were a small independent production company that specialized in making low budget action thrillers with enough elements that could be pre-sold in international territories to raise financing ala the Cannon Pictures model. Kaos was just a cheap gun for hire, which again, is the business model on these things. Put together a package and hire an international director who has a good enough eye and doesn't cost very much, and they're just happy to break into the American film market.

[@sveintheberserk]

The fact that they made a Gameboy game for this movies is ABSOLUTELY wild.

[@ArminAwesome]

You mean they made two

[@cognitivefailure]

Thanks for this, really interesting! Usually when I hear KZbinrs complain about "studio interference" or "executives meddling in the production" of a movie that turns out to be bad, it's just unsubstantiated whining by people with an agenda: "Boo hoo, this multimillion-dollar movie about a comic book superhero wasn't in contention for an Oscar, it must be the studio's fault! It couldn't possibly be that the subject matter is inherently childish and inane -- blame the executives!" It's nice to get a detailed and nuanced look at the actual behind-the-scenes details and a legitimate justification of such claims for once. But then it begs the question... if Ecks vs Sever isn't the worst movie ever... WHAT IS??? Let's hear it, Suspect Green!

[@pacoramon9468]

15:29 He also faced death himself instead of his double in PiB.

[@shadowleon659]

This movie had Puss in Boots vs Viper and they screwed it up. How they screwed it up is beyond me.

[@baxterwilson368]

9:05 I was excited when I heard Don Davis was doing the music. He’s mostly classically orchestral as hell, more so than Rabin, but I was surprised and disappointed to hear what he came up with.

[@markmathisen3908]

17:23, That gnarly gun Banderas is using there isn't a grenade launcher, but I definitely get why you'd think that. It's actually a Street Sweeper shotgun. It did look like incendiary rounds were used, which give off small little explosion as it hit the bridge's concrete. PS, This is by FAR the best review I've seen of this movie, and brother, I have seen a few. Great job! 👍😉

[@TeChNoWC7]

I’m sorry, but Lucy Liu looking that fine would never get a Rotten Rating from me

[@stefaneder8926]

that was quite interesting. the only thing i remeber about Ecks v Sever is, that the tie-in videogame came out long before the movie. so long in fact that I thought it was a videogame adaptation.

[@sanxpo5249]

The Cinematography here is beautiful. I’m very sure a proper recut would make this a potential classic of the early 2000… Great video, keep it up!

[@ryanspengler4877]

I'm the rare find who was actually HYPED for this film, all because of the Game Boy Advance game that I played before seeing the film, and I actually went EARLY on opening day to buy tickets..in case there was a line later 😂. Yes, we saw this in an empty theater on our 3rd or 4th date on opening day and yes, we're still together, even after seeing this infamous film and, somehow, recovering...😊

[@retrovideogamejunkie]

That movie is so bad, that the gameboy advance adaptation is better ...

[@jordanwhite352]

Also reminds me of a common saying that I've heard in the movie industry, which is that it's better to make a bad movie because at least a bad movie can be entertaining. What most people say are bad films are actually boring films.

[@topdogrlg]

This is the 1st video of yours I've watched and I enjoyed the heck out of it. I'm off to binge the rest of your vids. Bye!

[@ValusKiller]

Brilliant work suspect. Another banger as always.

[@Suspect_Green]

😁

[@jasonblalock4429]

25:50 OK, hol' up. "The Pledge" may have bombed, but it's a genuinely good - maybe great - psychological thriller with probably the best performance Nicholson put on in his latter career, at the point he started phoning things in. It's a slow burn, but it's 100% worth a watch.

[@RichardHomolka]

41:06 also “the guy who nearly beat John Wick” guy. I get it, he’s just some random dude avenging his family - then you don’t cast him

[@smithwesson1896]

Do you plan to do a video on "Good and Bad Video Game Adaptations"?

[@ChrisMeadows1992]

Ecks vs. Sever / A Sound of Thunder aka: The duology of terrible, forgotten films produced in the early 2000s by Franchise Pictures which both had well-received Game Boy Advance adaptations that came out well before the movies. My favorite film genre.

[@protogenxl]

did KAOS not know he could "Alan Smithee" out of this mess?

[@tsartomato]

Kaosayananda is his surname you are just being r-cist

[@913kaixa]

​@@tsartomatowhat? the guy literally calls himself Kaos

[@tsartomato]

@@913kaixa now think about WHY he does that in yankeestan or why gennadiy tartakovskiy mangled his name

[@913kaixa]

@@tsartomato cuz he thinks its cool and its his choice? i mean, your gripes would make sense if someone else imposed that name on him, like a "hard to pronounce foreign name, EW!! let's give you something easier for the american mind to handle" type deal from execs, but like. he chose to go by that. and if he chose to go by that, then its cool to call him that. you can still refer to him by his full name, Wych Kaosayananda, and you can use the mononym he also credits himself by, Kaos. really not that big of a deal

[@tsartomato]

@@913kaixa bruh it's literally change your name or you won't succeed because english speakers are unable to say english letters if the word is longer than bob rob bil ken don the dude already has the most simple easy name and this very video starts with hur dur i'm not gonna say such incredibly hard name written in simple english letters as kaosayanan

[@darkjudge8786]

Assuming critic scores on rotten tomato's are legit is where you first went wrong

[@ConnorNotyerbidness]

Sounds like on all counts thid shoulf have been designated an Alan Smithy film

[@Suspect_Green]

Yeah, and its sad that Kaos wanted to do just that with the Tekken prequel but the producers put his name on it anyway. Guy can't catch a break!!

[@johnnysparkle]

Then again Alan Smithiee can’t be used anymore due to the Alan Smithiee movie failing at the box office

[@ConnorNotyerbidness]

@@johnnysparkle ya but this was Before that iirc, and they have a new name in place of alan smithee- one that is unknown to the public of course

[@HereForTheComments]

What do I gotta do to make you an official Tomato reviewer? You could be making history by saving Sex Forever.

[@TheGreatSteve]

If I was making a drink-driving revenge movie, I think I'd start it with a short build up to the drink-driving incident.

[@zimriel]

Weller was the voice actor for the Robocop game that just came out, and apparently it's a good game where he's good in it.

[@dominiqueodom3099]

I distinctly remember watching this movie during the Discovery of Lucy Liu as my first Celebrity Crush after watching the Charlies Angels movies. I gathered every single movie in my house with her in it and watched it,and i distinctly remember how awful this movie was.

[@symbiote1982pk]

At least with Cannon sticking with Masters and Supes IV it meant we avoided a potentially terrible Spider-Man film, it took Marvel a long, long time to get something out that wasn't god awful, (the original Blade). We had an awful Punisher film, those weird Hulk TV films, Howard the sodding Duck, Nick Fury, Generation X, Corman's FF, The terrible Cap film. It really sucked being a Marvel fan in the late 80's/early 90's.

[@sonicguyver7445]

I always figured the worst movie ever made was "United Passions." A movie about FIFA that actually grossed less than $1000 in 2014.

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

This shows my age but I remmber when this movie came out and I was reading the PAPER of all things before going to school and holy shit, even the local movie reviewers were ripping this movie to shreds. Like, I mean they were actually ANGRY from how bad this movie was and the only other time they were this pissed off at media was when they reviewed Sonic 06. That should give you the time capsule that all of this insanity happened in. Edit: I came out of this review really respecting Kaos and what he had to go through. Thanks for that, man. It was....uh, KAOTIC but I left with a smile on my face and honestly endeared to the man. Hope his ventures are a lot better and a lot of fun. :)

[@condemnedpotbelly8491]

I was around 10 first time I saw this movie... My taste in movies back then was simply explosions and gunfire and I was looking at the screen like "what the fuck is this crap???"

[@TheBandit025Nova]

So let me get the Premise out of there Princess Pei Pei kidnaps an child and She has Zorro chasing after her

[@Suspect_Green]

Haha, they shoulda advertised it like that :D

[@jtshark5817]

I was an extra in the movie for parts filmed in Vancouver. This crap was not the fault of the director. Banderas was a strange cat. Liu was a sweetheart despite her rep. But there were problems on the set that for legal reason I can not post. But the director has problems from top to bottom with things he could not control. He was one of the nicer directors when it came to working with extras and was a nice guy

[@outstretchedwings]

Last I heard of Uwe Boll, he was trying to crowdfund his projects. I think he even went as far as recording a video cursing people out for not helping him reach his goal for one of them.

[@zimriel]

Uwe sells a crypto coin 4...3...2...

[@subteeninhumansamuraiamphi5019]

This was a straight to DVD type movie that some how got a world release and that’s what might give it that extra hatred. I worked in a theater when this came out and hated it because I had to watch it because I put it together.

[@cmfort2696]

There is also at least one video game version. I'm sure it's even worse.

[@Johnflaxman974]

I saw Ballistic at a 2$ second run theater.......and I still walked out after 20 minutes

[@Rognik]

I don't think Lucy Liu is the worst choice for an emotionless character. As i recall, her character in Ally McBeal was pretty monotone when speaking, which is a similar vibe to what was required.

[@letsgoooo9200]

They bettter make a 2nd one

[@Suspect_Green]

Well if Air Bud can get 13 sequels, I'd say Ecks vs Sever deserves a shot at one.

[@danielbloomquist9810]

More like the worst case of studio executives putting on full display their eternal incompetence and addiction to sabotaging themselves and all they touch for the sake of filthy lucre.

[@rikp]

Whenever anyone starts talking about something being "the worst movie ever made" I ask them, "Have you seen Blood Freak from 1972?" Ugh.

[@MatthewCaunsfield]

This super investigative video went far deeper than I could have imagined! Hopefully Kaos will get his opportunity one day.

[@lukeb247]

Not sure how this came up in my recommendations but glad it did, you're very funny and engaging. I feel bad for Kaos

[@JSEvans-or5xe]

Critical reviews are next to worthless and are often shills. What happens when a film has a very high critical score but a very low audience score, they disable the audience score.

[@lobsterwhisperer7932]

I thought Showgirls was the worst movie, but apparently this movie is considered art today. The bad acting supposedly was on purpose.

[@GrackAlaciN]

Just a comment on Rotten Tomatoes - it doesn't compile scores from every critic, only critics that submits to RT, and those have to be approved by the sites before they can submit anything. Their guidelines are on their webpage. That a movie has a 0% on the Tomatometer only means that 100% of critics that reviewed it gave it a below average score, so a movie could sit on an actual score of 5/10 and be 0% on the Tomatometer. That said, Ballistic probably is a terrible movie, and RT probably shouldn't be trusted in general because a PR firm has paid critics for positive reviews, because RT is such a big guideline for US film production.

[@Disconnect350]

Both combos of Chow Yun Fat/Jean Reno and Stallone/Diesel sound great. Shame we didn't get either.

[@RMR1]

Even the two positive reviews for "One Night in Bangkok" say it's awful, but worth watching for the performance of its male lead, Mark Dacascos. (It has a 33% score on RT, so just 6 reviews total.) One of the negative reviews summarized, intentionally or not, what I've always heard is the primary knock on Kaos: "One Night in Bangkok fatally stalls whenever Kaosayananda has to develop his hitman drama beyond place-holding cliches." That's harsh -- but not altogether inaccurate.

[@P.S.Leviews]

11:18 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom writers: “WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!”

[@langolier9]

Wow, wow wow you made that so much more interesting than I would’ve thought. I kept thinking I wasn’t gonna listen to the end but you did made me do it. Great job subscriber now.

[@Byronic19134]

I remember renting this movie from Blockbuster when it came out as a kid. I remember just turning my brain off loving the action, also the nano bot suboplot never bothered me considering I was already use to watching SciFi channel movies which made no sense haha.

[@samiraperi467]

4:14 It's also unfortunate that the word you're looking for is "reins".

[@chanceak6198]

No idea why, but this movie came out when I was 5 and I absolutely loved and rented it numerous times when I was 5 to around 9 or 10. Completely forgot about it until recently and have no idea how my taste was so bad

[@phillophotographer7366]

Nice video. You're mistaken about one thing though. When Samaha says "We're gonna make 2 more movies together" you can notice the Get Carter poster in the background. They were clearly attending that movie premiere. Ergo the 2 more movies he was referring to were Driven and Avening Angelo, which came out after Get Carter.

[@sziklafygyula4885]

picking up an origami in a closeup? where and who's the Bladerunner?!

[@nicktoons125]

Great early birthday present! A new Suspect video!

[@Suspect_Green]

Happy birthday!

[@TJThomas116]

This is so well-researched and presented! Great investigation, I learned so much (and I watch a lot of film youtube), instant subscribe from me, looking forward to seeing more from you!

[@Heathcoatman]

I think honorary mention should be Battlefield Earth. 153 critic reviews, 3% critic, 13% audience. It wouldnt surprise me if the 5 critics who liked it belonged to a certain church. not only is it terrible (and not in a fun way) it's over 3 hours long.

[@veteranredbeard6222]

Critic reviews are taken too seriously. Theres no standard for how many rated it, their qualifications, time they spent mastering their eye for cinema. They are audiences with egos.

[@justsignmeup911]

16:27 I think this is "forced perspective" with the cars not actually being over him.

[@tsartomato]

i heard about this film because it was in VHS rental on the premium shelf and i saw it every time i visited for years

[@incubustimelord5947]

Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever could be rebooted/re-imagined/remade/retold with way better writing from a very good sci-fi writer. All that needs to be done is make the story have a much better title, and make the two main characters make a lot more sense. If they make the story an action-adventure/crime drama that has to do with some kind of cyberpunk future world, I could see former F.B.I. Special Agent Jeremiah Ecks and former D.I.A. agent Sever being two rival mercs who are occasional allies but usually arch-enemies that have a lot of sexual tension between them. Kind of like the cat and mouse games that George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez had played in the movie Out Of Sight. The original version of the story with the complicated, complex and convoluted plot device about Softkill and Gant could be changed to make things kept short and simple but effective and straight to the point. Eliminate Vinn and her son as Ecks' family. Make Ecks ex-military personnel and change his status as a F.B.I. Special Agent to a freelance professional mercenary-for-hire. Change Sever's status as a D.I.A. agent to a former soldier in the United States Army who is now a soldier of fortune. Change Gant to a much more powerful and rich villain antagonist with no connection to Vinn, her son, the F.B.I. or the D.I.A. He can still be the main bad guy in the story, but just don't focus so much on the advanced nano blood cell technology called Softkill. Ecks can be a bounty hunter and Sever can be a private investigator. The both of them possess expert marksmanship skills with various firearms, making their epic shootouts with fully automatic handguns similar to the gun kata scenes from the movie Equilibrium. The story could actually work if they flesh out Jeremiah Ecks as the main male character and hero protagonist, and if they flesh out Sever as the main female character and heroine protagonist. If it were up to me, I would add dark, adult fantasy and horror aspects, just as well biopunk, dystopian, post-apocalyptic, and post-cataclysmic elements. It would be a hard, heavy Rated R, with adult themes, nudity, sexual situations, strong language, suggestive dialogue, and splatterpunk violence. I would try my best to redeem the bad movie that the film Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever is by making it hyper stylized visually, especially with the gun fights, having ancient, and modern projectile weapons, and even advanced energy weapons. It's the only way that the story could be saved because the original concept is a good one, but the premise was badly executed.

[@personatodo]

You should make a video on Asian/Non-English hardcore sci-fi movies in the future. Lots of material to choose from like South Korea's Project Wolf Hunting, 2009: Lost Memories, Space Sweepers; China/Hong Kong's Warriors of Future, Wicked City, Wandering Earth 2; Japan's Space Battleship Yamato, Returner, Gantz, etc. Lots of materials for you to work with. I actually watched Ballistics Ecks vs Sever I'm the cinema during its release and totally regretted it. The editing was terrible, movie's pacing is slow even with some action and Antonio Banderas looks bored in all his scenes. You can have a bad story but at least make it entertaining like most of Paul W.S Anderson's movies.

[@42k78]

I'm really happy you brought this to light. Blown away by the stunt in Ecks vs Sever.