Ticker

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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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Below standard filming with above standard casting.......2007-08-27

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.

Awful waste of good talent......disappointing........2007-08-25

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!

What the heck happened here!.......2006-08-28

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.....

Oh man it's bad.......2006-01-04

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.

What the fork is this!?.......2005-12-29

Okay, ignoring the obvious fact that Pyun made this... "film"... out of the scum that stuck to his shoes after walking through the cutting rooms of 3 or 4 other really crappy movies - all involving... cityscapes and leather, I'd guess... Where was I... Oh yeah. And leaving aside the question of whether any of these actors has every really been good (I love them all, you understand, but I also "like" Starbucks coffee when Kona isn't available - ie all the time except payday)... Um, I feel that what sums this hunk of celery up is that the bad guys "hide" a huge bomb on the roof of the San Francisco city hall, and then have a bunch of henchboobs "guard" it so's Hopper and Pressly can get out of range.

Now, let's recognize that city halls don't tower over every other building in any city on earth (this is reserved for the buildings of banks, insurance companies and general commercial piracy outfits). Which means authorities would be able to see the spear carriers guarding the bomb and act accordingly. This you could see in any bad movie. Perhaps not in the light of the feeling that some of the guards might wonder who would be guarding the bomb while it was their turn to get out of range, though. And how, really, do you sneak a bomb the size of an elephant onto the roof of a city hall. Even pre 9/11 my imagination failed.

But here's where I had to look under the bottom of the disc's case to see if somehow, something had fallen out of it. Can I really believe Ice-T would play a man stupid enough to attempt to take this roof by force? No ladies and gents, a bad movie can be the most fun you'll ever have with your clothes on, but this Ticker goes too far, crosses a line (trips over it actually), and stumbled into chaos. It was like having Korean subtitles on under a Cantonese audio track on a Mime film of about Ladan as told by Swedish Esperantists.

And if you're high enough to actually enjoy such a thing I'd suggest something in a medium budget Godzilla, instead.

Steven Seagal (4 PACK) Out for a Kill, Into the Sun, Half Past Dead, Ticker

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Steven Seagal (4 PACK) Out for a Kill, Into the Sun, Half Past Dead, Ticker

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Black Mask/Ticker
Starring: Tom Sizemore , Dennis Hopper , Steven Seagal , Jaime Pressly , and Nas
Director: Albert Pyun , and Daniel Lee (II)
Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
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ASIN: B00006AUGX
Release Date: 2002-08-20

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BLACK MASK: Action has a new superhero - Black Mask - in this dazzling and explosive martial arts extravaganza! Following his harrowing escape from a secret, superhuman commando unit known as Squad 701, Black Mask takes on a new identity as a quiet librarian named Tsui Chik. His life of normalcy is shaken when a murderous rampage against all of Hong Kong's drug dealers is linked to Squad 701, forcing him to return as the Black Mask in order to stop their campaign of murder before it's too late! TICKER: 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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Below standard filming with above standard casting
Awful waste of good talent......disappointing.
What the heck happened here!
Oh man it's bad
What the fork is this!?

Ticker [Region 2]
Starring: Tom Sizemore , Dennis Hopper , Steven Seagal , Jaime Pressly , and Nas
Director: Albert Pyun
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00005UE6V

Customer Reviews:

Below standard filming with above standard casting.......2007-08-27

Awful waste of good talent......disappointing........2007-08-25

What the heck happened here!.......2006-08-28

Oh man it's bad.......2006-01-04

What the fork is this!?.......2005-12-29

Average customer rating:

Below standard filming with above standard casting
Awful waste of good talent......disappointing.
What the heck happened here!
Oh man it's bad
What the fork is this!?

Ticker [Region 2]
Starring: Tom Sizemore , Dennis Hopper , Steven Seagal , Jaime Pressly , and Nas
Director: Albert Pyun
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

Thrillers | Mystery & Suspense | Genres | DVD | Video

DVDs Under $14.99 | Today's Deals in DVD | Special Features | DVD | Video

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ASIN: B0000695KG

Customer Reviews:

Below standard filming with above standard casting.......2007-08-27

Awful waste of good talent......disappointing........2007-08-25

What the heck happened here!.......2006-08-28

Oh man it's bad.......2006-01-04

What the fork is this!?.......2005-12-29

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