''Ticker'' is a 2001 American action film directed by

Albert Pyun Albert Pyun (May 19, 1953 – November 26, 2022) was an American film director who made low-budget B-movies and direct-to-video action films. The Independent Film Channel said that Pyun "has carved out a unique niche as a director of low-budge ...

and starring

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, Ice-T, Kevin Gage, and

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Plot

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team converges on the house of a

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, who is being held hostage. The

bomb squad Bomb disposal is an explosives engineering profession using the process by which hazardous explosive devices are rendered safe. ''Bomb disposal'' is an all-encompassing term to describe the separate, but interrelated functions in the milit ...

arrives; Frank Glass (

) 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

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, narcotics cops Ray Nettles (

) and partner Art "Fuzzy" Rice (

) 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. 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 (

) and the three men flee. Ray arrests the woman, Claire (

), 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

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and

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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. Swan arranges a massive bombing with a crew led by Vincent Cruichshank ( Ice-T). Ray convinces the police to release Claire, hoping to avert another bombing, and they give her a tracking device. Once she meets up with Swan, however, she disables the tracker and works with him. They discuss their upcoming "masterpiece," and Claire goes to a phone booth to activate the bomb. She detonates a car bomb in Swan's car, instead. Confused, Glass tells Ray they must both be dead. Seeing City Hall on TV, Ray remembers Claire's story about her husband and realizes she was the mastermind all along. They rush to City Hall and split up - Ray goes to the basement and Glass to the roof. Ray is forced to disarm a bomb with advice over the radio from Glass, who coaches him to relax and forget his grief, but the device is a decoy. Glass disarms the real bomb on the roof.

Cast

as Detective Ray Nettles *

as Lieutenant Frank Glass, Demolitions Expert and Bomb Squad Chief *

as Alex Swan, Irish Terrorist *

as Detective Art "Fuzzy" Rice *

as Claire Manning * Kevin Gage as Payton "Pooch" Stad, Bomb Squad Expert *

Romany Malco Romany relates or may refer to: *The Romani people or Romany people, also known as Gypsies *Romani language or Romany language, the language of the Romani people *"Romany", the pseudonym of a broadcaster and writer of Romani descent, George Bramwel ...

as T.J. Littles, Bomb Squad Expert * Mimi Rose as Beverly "Bev" Seabo, Bomb Squad Secretary *

Peter Greene Peter Greene (born Peter Green; October 8, 1965) is an American actor. A character actor, he is generally known for portraying villains. He is best known for the roles in the 1994 films '' The Mask'', where he plays the films antagonist, Dori ...

as Detective Artie Pluchinsky * Ice-T as Vincent Cruichshank, Terrorist Commander * Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas as Lilly McCutcheon * Michael Halsey as Simon Vershbow, Swan's Assistant *

Norbert Weisser Norbert Weisser (born July 9, 1946) is a German-born actor based in the US. Based in Venice, California, he is a founding member of Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, the ProVisional Theater, and the Padua Playwrights Festival. A long-time collaborator ...

as Billy Dugger, Swan's Assistant *

Joe Spano Joseph Peter Spano (born July 7, 1946) is an American actor best known for his roles as Lt. Henry Goldblume on ''Hill Street Blues'' and FBI Special Agent Tobias C. Fornell on '' NCIS''. He also voiced the Chuck E. Cheese (at the time Chuck E. Che ...

as Captain R.J. Winters * Milos Milicevic as Milos, Balkan Terrorist At Governor's Mansion * Jenny McShane as Nettles' Wife * Joey Meyer Rosenblum as Pooch's Son

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ticker (2001 Film) 2001 films 2001 action thriller films American action thriller films Artisan Entertainment films Nu Image films Films directed by Albert Pyun Films shot in Bulgaria MoviePass Films films 2000s chase films 2000s English-language films 2000s American films