Ticker

Ticker is an action thriller set in San Francisco, where detective Ray Nettles and his partner Art "Fuzzy" Rice run into a terrorist group led by the fanatical Alex Swan while investigating a robbery in an industrial area. The encounter turns deadly, and Nettles manages to arrest Claire Manning, a member of the group. Swan responds by threatening to set off bombs across the city unless she is freed, which pushes the police toward his demands. Nettles brings in explosives expert Frank Glass to track Swan down and stop the attacks.

Albert Pyun directed the film, the twelfth entry in the directing career that runs from The Sword and the Sorcerer in 1982 through Cyborg, Nemesis and Mean Guns. Paul B. Margolis wrote the screenplay, and the producers were Ken Aguado, Randall Emmett and George Furla. Tom Sizemore plays Nettles, Dennis Hopper plays Swan, and Steven Seagal plays Glass. Jaime Pressly appears as Claire Manning, the rapper Nas plays Fuzzy Rice, and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas plays Lilly. The film runs 92 minutes and was made for about 7 million dollars.

Audience response has been weak: on IMDb it holds a rating of 3.5 out of 10 from roughly 8,100 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 3.7 out of 10 from about 135 votes. Both figures indicate a largely negative reception among viewers.