Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Ticker is a perfect example of sloppy film making at its best. Continuity errors, scenes from other movies edited into this movie, poor acting, sloppy editing, and an even worse story. Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper and Steven Seagal should be ashamed of themselves for participating in such a terrible movie.Basically Ticker centers around a police officer Ray Nettles (Tom Sizemore) who must team up with bomb squad leader Glass (Steven Seagal) to pursue an Irish terrorist Swann (Dennis Hopper in a very poor man's version of his famous role in Speed) who is detonating bombs around San Francisco (you could tell very little of it was filmed in San Francisco and was filmed elsewhere on the cheap). Very derivative, lazy and uninteresting story. The only reason I thought I would check this out was for Tom Sizemore (who was an excellent actor that appeared in Heat, Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down) and plus Steven Seagal when he had box office appeal. I thought Steven Seagal's role would be identical to his role in Executive Decision but its not. Here in Ticker, he was just going through the motions with very minimal effort so he could get his paycheck. Dennis Hopper was very uninspiring as the villain. He was great as the villain in Blue Velvet and Speed, but here is is just sleepwalking though his role.Apparently director Albert Pyun hated the completed version of this movie and I don't blame him in the slightest. I would disown this movie too.If you are a fan of Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper or Steven Seagal by all means check it out, but you will be very, very disappointed at how bad this movie is. Everybody else I highly recommend you avoid this bomb at all costs.1/10.

The only reason i gave it 1 was the cast, why oh why would the I.R.A or anyone connected to the I.R.A want to bomb any part of America, if you caused years of hurt and pain and wanted to wipe out a nation like Cromwell, then we would have a reason the cause pain, blow up and cause pain to Americans, you may think i am ranting on but i am Irish, i have seen the troubles, and we have no reason to take revenge on America, $7,000,000 box office?, you need to look at what your watching, who is this Laurens H Koehoorn's ?, write something about true facts or something more realistic. I need to write more but that's about your lot

"Ticker" is a hilarious comedy...isn't this supposed to be an action movie? For an action movie, it is curiously light on action.San Francisco Detective Ray Nettles (Sizemore) is a cop on the edge, with a new partner named Fuzzy (Nas). They are dispatched to a crime scene where Irish mad bomber Alex Swan (Hopper) and his gang are hiding. Nettles punches then arrests one member of the gang, Claire (Pressly). Swan becomes enraged and a shoot-out follows, with Fuzzy getting shot and dying in Nettles' arms.Swan escapes and is now terrorizing the city with bomb threats. After Nettles' always-angry Captain Spano (Joe Spano in the role he was born to play) yells at him, Nettles is partnered with the bomb squad. The leader of the squad is the Zen-spoutin' Glass (Seagal). Now it is a race against time as Glass and Nettles scurry around town to try to defuse all the bombs set by Swan.There are so many uproarious moments in "Ticker". Here are just a few that stand out: 1. All the explosions from the bombs are culled from stock footage, and in one particularly funny sequence it jaggedly cuts to Sizemore's face. He then does a bugged-out look in "surprise" at what he is "seeing".2. In one scene, there is a bomb-sniffing dog and the cop asks the dog: "Hey boy, do you smell nuggets?" Insert Seagal fat joke here...3. Speaking of which: Seagal shot this movie both during AND after "Exit Wounds" (2001) and during that time his weight fluctuated wildly. So when the final film of "Ticker" was cut together, his weight noticeably changes from scene to scene. Even the many (too many) close-ups of Seagal's face can't disguise the feature-length continuity error that is his constantly changing girth.4. We're all familiar with Seagal's laziness in doing his own ADR work. He gets someone else to say his own lines. This person sounds NOTHING like him. "Ticker" is rife with this. We expect that with Seagal, but with Sizemore? A man who doesn't match Sizemore's gruff voice at all did a few of his lines. Maybe the well-known "Seagal Laziness" was contagious on the set.5. There is a supposedly "cool" shot where Seagal is walking down a hallway in slow motion. It goes on for a good three minutes and it is not cool at all. It is there to obviously pad out the running time and give Pyun a chance to pretend he is Tarantino for a day. Seagal's gait provokes prolonged laughter instead.6. Watch out for Seagal's "Hitchcock-style" (in more ways than one...) cameo as a bearded jazz guitar player in a club. Nettles and Glass walk into the club and thus Seagal watches himself on stage for a split second. How meta. Not just Van Damme can play a double role.The rest of the cast is slumming beyond belief, especially Hopper. All of his scenes are shot in close-up and he speaks in an inconsistent Irish accent. Ice-T is in this mess for two seconds as a terrorist.All in all, "Ticker" is a "blast" to watch with friends.Quoth Seagal in the last line of the movie: "Love is eternal and that is a long time." Comeuppance Review by: Ty & Brett For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com

Having lost his partner in a shootout, Detective Ray Nettles is keen to hold onto the woman he captured at the time (Claire) even though the matter now belongs with homicide rather than narcotics. He is given a chore to do that brings him into contact with the San Francisco Bomb Squad as led by Frank Glass. Quickly the two men realise that they have a common enemy in bomber Alex Swan, but Swan is one step ahead of them and demands the release of Claire without question or else he will start bombing San Francisco. When the police don't immediately respond a bar is destroyed in the first of a wave of attacks.I'm not sure what I can say to add the revulsion already on this page. It is hard to describe how poor this film is because the internet is full of people saying "this sucks" or "this rocks" but this genuinely does "suck" and it does it on pretty much every level and every aspect that you could imagine. The plot is a mess. It has basic elements to it that are poorly strung together in a manner that just left me cold and uninterested; the reasons for characters doing where they are doing are often nonsense and the lack of logic or internal reason is just brushed off and forgotten. The delivery of it lacks any sort of urgency and I was actually surprised by just how lacklustre the whole thing was – the "big" finish is a fine example, as it is plodding and as exciting as cold tea. I appreciate that this was made in less than two weeks but I did wonder why they didn't take a little longer if this was the outcome. Director Pyun seems entirely focused on getting the shot in the can and moving on and my god but it shows in every frame. Everything looks like it was done first time and that half the crew had moved on before the cameras had stopped rolling.His ability with action here also surprised me as his action scenes are roundly poor. I appreciate that the time restrictions had a part to play with that but it is hard to be forgiving when, for instances, people falling out of windows to their death is done by focusing on the hero's face while we hear "aargh" in the background! I have not seen any of Pyun's films that spring to mind but from this I can understand why people hate him! Which leads me to question then why so many well-known people got involved (some of them for practically seconds of screen time). This site puts the budget at an estimated $25,000,000 and, given so little of it is on the screen, then I can only assume that the starry cast all got a pretty slice of that pie for a few days work. Luckily only their time is wasted here because none of them are showing sufficient talent to claim that that has been wasted.Sizemore is a point in case as he mopes his way across the screen with a performance that suggests he was asleep seconds before each and every take. Seagal does the same and mumbles lots of "deep" stuff, confusing mumbling with being cool. There is no chemistry between the two men and watching their scenes together is akin to watching two rocks. Hopper turns in a performance so abysmal that I assume he got paid loads. His accent is terrible and it wanders throughout the film – next time he sees Speed I hope he feels some guilt about Ticker. Always a sign of quality, the film has a handful of hip hop stars here in the shape of Nas, Ice-T and Chilli. Nas is awful and his early death is hilarious. Ice-T and Chilli are in it for seconds and I do wonder why they bothered (other than the aforementioned payday). Pressly does nothing – not even her normal "sexy trailer trash" thing. The lack of quality runs deep; Greene can't even do a "painting by numbers" character justice and the only reason I can think for Halsey's terrible accent is that he is doing the acting equivalent of jumping on a grenade for Hopper – making him look good by comparison.A terrible film then, one that doesn't even the very basic things you expect from a "straight-to-video" action movie. The story is poor, the action badly done, the direction simplistic, the performances rubbish and the whole package cheap and derivative. Don't waste your time with this – it is telling that simply by viewing it, I actually invested more time and effort than many of those involved.