LouHomey
From my favorite movies..
Micah Lloyd
Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Ortiz
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
The Movie Diorama
The all too common trait of "style over substance" strikes again. Except this time there is absolutely no substance in what is an instantly forgettable generic plot. But I'll be damned, what a euphorically surreal ride this was! I'm certain my eyes were bleeding afterwards. A woman infected with a vampiric disease plans to overthrow a futuristic government before her kind are exterminated. How does she do it? Advanced martial arts, obviously! She doesn't just tackle twenty armed individuals atop an imposing needle skyscraper. Oh no, she singlehandedly wrecks an entire army of seven hundred, with just a sword and a plethora of firearms. Only director Wimmer could capture the technique of "Gun Fu" whilst creating a vividly imaginative dystopian environment. Alas, the film is awful. There's no escaping this entirely subjective view. Anyone who watches this will immediately feel nauseated by the obnoxious style Wimmer forces upon us. From low octane inexplicable action sequences to visual effects resembling a retro PlayStation game. The exaggerative aesthetic appeal masquerades a deceptively thin plot with minimal character development and a basic narrative structure. Action, exposition, action, exposition, final showdown, the end. The acting was bland and monotonous, aside from Jovovich who is always a pleasure to watch...and her stomach, where every single frame resembled Darude's 'Sandstorm' music video. Yet, somehow beneath my thick film critiquing skin, I succumbed to the absurdity. Motorcycling through a helicopter mid-air, flaming sword fight, constant hair and clothing colour transitions for no apparent reason, gravity belt for both herself and the motorcycle, "3D me" and technology so outrageously unique that my eyes glistened with delight. Possibly the weirdest film experience ever. So visually blinding, that you begin to question if the horrific style was actually on purpose. Did I really witness a hidden stylised masterpiece? No, don't be stupid. Forgettable and laughably executed. Shame, Jovovich deserves better...
adonis98-743-186503
A beautiful hemophage infected with a virus that gives her superhuman powers has to protect a boy in a futuristic world, who is thought to be carrying antigens that would destroy all hemophages. If you asked me about Ultraviolet and what i thought about it back in 2006 or 2007 i would have told you that it's a great movie but now after seeing it a couple of times i can see the many problems that it faces from the laughable special effects that look like they came out of a 1983 film to the over the top action, the cheesy acting and the mediocre villains plus the story isn't that good either but as a movie it does what it was meant to do pretty well because if you want to see Milla Jovovich kicking the sh*t out of people for about 1 hour and 30 minutes you are going to get that plus the Opening Titles weren't that bad although they did remind me of Spider-Man a bit. Ultraviolet is like Batman and Robin you know it's bad and dumb and the characters are one note but you enjoy watching it for it's campy side and weird action sequences because if there are people who found Catwoman good then there are people out there as well that found something good about this film and in a way it does it's job perfectly for what it was meant to be. (8/10)
Davis P
This movie is supposed to be stylish and crap, but honestly, the special effects are really very hokey. The effects just weren't exciting at all! And the fight sequences were really bad and boring, just fake looking. That was really disappointing, I mean come on, if you can't write a decent script or get good acting out of the cast members, the cool looking effects is really all you've got left to work in your favor, but nope this movie even failed at that. And oh dear lord, the acting was atrocious, simply atrocious, Mila and all the rest of the cast was awful, and has virtually NO on screen chemistry. Mila might've looked the part, but she just couldn't act worth anything in this film, fake, cheesy and completely phoned in. The dialogue between the characters was actually pretty deep and well written. Hahaha. Just kidding. No no no, the dialogue was absolutely without a doubt horrible. This movie has one of the most cliché scripts I've ever seen in my entire life. And in some of the action sequences, that is if you can even call them that, so much incoherent fake looking crap is going on, that you can't even tell what's happening. This movie is just so unbelievably convoluted and half the time doesn't even make much sense. I guess Ultraviolet is just one more example of a cliché cheesy action film that just utterly fails in every way possible.
bowmanblue
'Ultraviolet' is an odd film to describe. Many would probably just say 'rubbish,' but I think that's a little harsh (just a little, though). I read that the studio didn't like the final cut and re-edited it from two hours to less than ninety minutes. This – apparently – made it more 'action orientated,' taking out the emotion and storytelling aspects of the tale. The tale. It's set in the future during a war between humans and vampires (although they're called 'hemo-phages' or something).Mila Jovovich plays the titular character who's a vampire (I'm just going to call them vampires from now on), intent on stopping the 'evil' humans from wiping her kind out. However, when she's ordered to kill a child, crucial to the wicked humans' plans, she refuses and turns on... well, pretty much everyone.It's never really explained how Violet gets her – borderline superhuman – powers. She seems to find it pretty easy to wipe out huge armies of armed soldiers without breaking sweat. She just does. It's things like this, not to mention a few blatantly humorous lines, that make me wonder whether this film was supposed to be a bit 'tongue-in-cheek.' However, there's not enough humour in it to really show that it's supposed to not be taken seriously. For the most part it's played straight, forcing you to suspend your disbelief more than you ever have in order to believe what's happening before your eyes.But it's not all bad. Despite the new Playstation 2 special effects (seriously... some of the backdrops look like they're straight out of a computer game's 'cut scenes'), the sets are actually quite well-designed and colourful. It certainly does have its own 'look' and is quite atmospheric when it's at its best.I wonder whether Ultraviolet was supposed to be the start of some sort of franchise that never took off – something like the Resident Evil or Underworld series. Basically, it could have been at least fun, if it knew what it was. But the plot is just 'tell not show.' The characters say things that are blatantly there to just let us – the audience – know what's happening. The fight scenes are cool and Milla is possibly even sexier than ever. So, if all you're looking for is hot girls killing hordes of bad-guys then you'll find what you're looking for here. Anything deeper and you'll be left wanting more. Much, much more.
