TV Article BALLISTIC: ECKS VS. SEVER By Bruce Fretts Bruce Fretts Bruce Fretts was a former critic at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2003. EW's editorial guidelines Published on October 4, 2002 04:00AM EDT Directed by Kaos (not Get Smart’s evil organization, but a nom de film for Thai tyro Wych Kaosayananda), the cacophonous Ballistic pits Antonio Banderas against his toughest adversary yet… would you believe, Lucy Liu? Kaos was apparently aiming for a coolly stylized, straight-faced take on ”Spy vs. Spy.” As Maxwell Smart used to say, ”Missed it by that much.”