Ticker (2001)
Ticker is a 2001 American action film directed by Albert Pyun and starring Tom Sizemore, Jaime Pressly, Dennis Hopper, Steven Seagal, Ice-T, Kevin Gage, and Nas.
Plot.
A SWAT team converges on the house of a United States Senator, who is being held hostage. The bomb squad arrives; Frank Glass (Steven Seagal) finds a bomb in the basement and works to disarm it while the SWAT team is in a shootout with the hostage takers. Glass disarms the bomb but deems it too easy, believing it was designed to mislead him. The real bomb detonates, killing everyone inside. A year later in San Francisco, narcotics cops Ray Nettles (Tom Sizemore) and partner Art “Fuzzy” Rice (Nas) arrest a suspect on drug charges. Ray lets a woman go who pleads for her and her child; Fuzzy tells Ray to get some help for his “demons” – he has never mourned the car bombing death of his wife and son.RELATED:
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They see people entering a warehouse late at night and investigate. Ray apprehends a woman and three men converge on him; Fuzzy is shot by their leader (Dennis Hopper) and the three men flee. Ray arrests the woman, Claire (Jaime Pressly), but she refuses to say anything about the men. She is wearing an odd-looking bracelet which Nettles takes to the bomb squad for Glass to look over. The bracelet is found to contain detonation cord and Semtex explosive. The leader tells the police they have one hour to release Claire; when they do not, he bombs a bar.
Ray takes Glass back to the warehouse where they find a French cigarette and matchbook from a jazz club.
They go to the club and kill one of the bombers, disarming his bomb. Ray questions Claire again; she reveals the bomber’s names – Alex Swan, the leader, and Vershbow, the surviving member. She claims that no matter what happens, she will be killed for getting caught, and has decided to cooperate. Swan intends to plant a bomb at the police station, but Vershbow gets cold feet and forces Swan to give him the bomb at gunpoint. The police corner him and Glass apparently prevents the detonation, but Swan detonates several more bombs using a pay phone.
Cast:
- Tom Sizemore as Detective Ray Nettles
- Steven Seagal as Lieutenant Frank Glass,
- Dennis Hopper as Alex
- Nas as Art “Fuzzy” Rice
- Jaime Pressly as Claire Manning
- Kevin Gage as Payton
- Romany Malco as T.J. Littles
- Mimi Rose as Beverly “Bev”
- Peter Greene as Detective Artie
- Ice-T as Vincent Cruichshank,
- Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas as Lilly
- Michael Halsey as Simon Vershbow
- Norbert Weisser as Billy Dugger
- Joe Spano as Captain R.J.
- Milos Milicevic as Milos
- Jenny McShane as Nettles’ Wife
- Joey Meyer Rosenblum as Pooch’s Son