Ultraviolet [Blu-ray] Neither good nor bad for your eyes – Del Keyes – In the middle of the Sunshine
It’s Milla Jovovich kicking tail. Yet again, and most likely in the nude at one point. She plays Violet, a expert killer in middle of a futuristic war between the corporate jerks and the infected jerks she’s working with called the Hemophages; she is also a Hemophage, one with the ability change her hair color, control her own gravity, and pulling weapons literally out of thin air (the movie never bothers going into details about those). Violet was ordered on a mission to apprehend a product, which is actually a boy, and then the woman decided to protect the boy from the people who used to be on her side as well as the corporate jerks who caused her to be infected. Wait a second…’A female expert assassin had a change-of-heart and wanted to protect a child from people who wanted to kill it or use it?’ Oh no, it’s Elektra again. But unlike the necklace girl from that movie, the boy in “Ultraviolet” knew how to keep his mouth and himself out of trouble.
The story tended to borderline between nonsensical and stupid. Stupidity was given by the enemies, who has the tenacity to wear glass as armor and always charging towards Violet, only to hit each other (what is this, Looney Tunes?). The plot holes are plenty in this film, like why does the big baddie need the boy when he mentioned to have clones of the child or how Violet was rescued that one incident in the park when she’s surrounded by enemies? It was such a rush job, even the visual effects were tacky, especially the glossy backgrounds and that one shot when the entire city is made of blocks (not to mention the wall-riding scene that’s straight out of “Night Watch”). For what it’s worth, “Ultraviolet” served well enough as popcorn entertainment, albeit a forgettable one. It has some decent fights (bloodless for an Unrated version, though), and I did sorta grew fond of Violet and the boy, even though Violet is basically depicted as a mean, hostile woman.
blah – Michael W. Wong –
Do you condemn a painting because you don’t like what it portrays, or do you judge it by its artistic merits? The same with this movie, people have a hard time overcoming the comic book feel when it was obviously intended all throughout the movie, instead they took every attempt at feeling like a comic book as being a sign of a bad movie. It’s no different than saying a painting of a ship in sea being killed by a raging lightning storm is bad, badness being correlated to the amount of waves and lightning bolts and ominous clouds. No, dum dum, you judge the painting by how well it was done, and you judge the movie by how well it achieved what it set out to achieve. Excellent music too.
Leave it to the product review, Jeff Shannon – RD – CA USA
This movie has absolutely nothing to do with Aeon Flux. Watch the animated version of the original series from MTV. Your opinion is not valid nor desired. Any scifi fans who also are martial arts fans will appreciate this movie. The score alone is worth the purchase. Stick to what you know please, whatever that may be.
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Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 27-JUN-2006
Media Type: Blu-Ray As an overdose of eye candy, Ultraviolet can be marginally recommended as the second-half of a double-feature with Aeon Flux. Both films are disposable adolescent fantasies featuring a butt-kicking babe (in this case, the svelte and sexy Milla Jovovich) in a dystopian future, and both specialize in the kind of barely-coherent, video-game storytelling that’s constantly overwhelmed by an over-abundance of low-budget CGI. Director Kurt Wimmer fared much better with his earlier film Equilibrium, but he’s trying for a lively comic-book vibe here (beginning with Hulk-like opening credits) with a digitally enhanced, Tron-like color palette. It largely suits this late-21st century story of a “blood war” between the ultra-violent Violet (Jovovich), member of a vampire-like group of resistance fighters infected with a man-made virus called the Hemophage, and the human Vice Cardinal Daxus (Nick Chinlund), who’s determined to eliminate Violet’s kind once and for all. Wimmer takes all of this way too seriously, crafting a plot involving Violet’s rescue of a human clone boy (Cameron Bright) that’s intended as an homage to John Cassevetes’ 1980 drama Gloria, but Wimmer’s good intentions are mostly lost in a repetitive series of chaotically choreographed fight scenes, mostly involving the tight-bodied Jovovich wiping out dozens of armor-clad enemies. It’s all too numbingly hectic to qualify as a satisfying movie, but sci-fi buffs should give it a look anyway, if only to see how locations in Shanghai and Hong Kong contribute to the film’s futuristic design.–Jeff Shannon
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