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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 6021
Released: June 27, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil, The Fifth Element), Cameron Bright (X-Men 3), Nick Chinlund (The Legend of Zorro) and William Fichtner (The Longest Yard) star in this theatrical set in the late 21st century, a subculture of humans have emerged who have been modified genetically by a vampire-like disease (Hemophagia), giving them enhanced speed, incredible stamina and acute intelligence, and as they are set apart from "normal" and "healthy" humans, the world is pushed to the brink of worldwide civil war (a war between humans and hemophages) aimed at the destruction of the "diseased" population. In the middle of this crossed-fire is - an infected woman - Ultraviolet, who finds herself protecting a nine-year-old boy who has been marked for death by the human government as he is believed to be a threat to humans.
Description of Ultraviolet (Unrated, Extended Cut):
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
Ultraviolet (Unrated, Extended Cut) Reviews:
Crisp and Clear 
2009-11-07 - All that I can say, so much better in Blu-Ray. Watching the movie in HD you really truly get the idiosyncrasy pieces that the director was going for when the film was made. The only question I have to ask still, when will there be a sequel? :-/
The fighting scenes are good!! 
2009-09-10 - This DVD was something I wanted to see for a long time. I'm a big fan of M. Jolovich and her fighting/action movies. This movie carries throughout all the fighting one person can handle. The choreograph action and visual-effects are worthed the money. However, the story line could use some help; for example how she (Jolovich's charater) came into being. I find it hard to believe constant testing can make a person more advance than others, eventhough the lost of a child can be life-changing. Maybe that is what may her a skill fighter...I don't know. That's why I gave this 3-stars. The director or the writers were not very clear so I was left to wonder myself. Overall, the movie does keep my attention with action and set background...spectecular but, of course, mila looks incredible sexy in leather too.
like an extremely bad version of a futuristic 'Resident Evil'-film 
2009-08-30 - This film could be called an extremely bad version of a futuristic 'Resident Evil' film.
Jovovich plays the same type of character: genetically manipulated human-being becoming superhero. But this one doesn't have the good storyline, directing and acting as those series of films.
The graphics or art directing is just terrible, it's looks completely unconvincing and fake, I really hated it. I contrast this to 'Minority Report', which actually looked convincing.
The storyline is not good either, it's more drama, with a few action scenes, than science-fiction. I was very bored with it, it was predicable all the way through.
For more serious viewers looking for some action or science-fiction, then I think this film will just aggravate you, like it did me.
Nice fight scenes, others not so much......
2009-08-29 - I saw this movie in a discounted movie theatre (ya know, $.99 cent tickets, $8 dolar popcorn sold) and it was worth the price I paied for it (which was again...99 cents)
The movie will confuse the heck out of alot of people from the start and may just disinterest more throughout.
Having bowling balls shoot assassins into a building and then dropping the scientists does set the tone for the kind of movie you will see. And what guy wouldn't want to see Mila kicking some serious butt either. She can wear whatever she pleases as well!! :)
This was eyecandy and the fighting scenes were awsome. The guards with the energy rods (?) did rather suck when they attacked her. She moped the floor easy. She then mops the floor with all the other guards before jumping off the building at the helicopter shooting at her. Oh yeah, the suitcase held a kid???
It becomes boring when it switches from the mindless fighting until the action keeps up again. The story just wasn't there at all. The part where she takes down 3 rows of guards with weapons drawn already was a little too much for me though. She just seemed to kick everybody's butt too quickly.
Overall, an average movie with no balance between action and story.
Ultraidiotic.
2009-08-28 - Ultraviolet (Kurt Wimmer, 2006)
I had somehow gotten it into my head that Ultraviolet was a stupid American remake of a brilliant British TV miniseries of the same name. After all, they both deal with a war between vampires and humans. The reality of the situation, however, is that had the filmmakers here tried to do a stupid American remake of a brilliant British TV miniseries, the end result, no matter how bad, would have been far better than this plotless mess. As far as I can tell, the script for this was cribbed together by someone who'd watched at least a thousand action movies and thought "wouldn't it be cool to take all the best scenes from all these and put them together in one flick?". To be fair, they did a pretty good job of that. There are a lot of well-done action scenes to be found here. The problem is that the "story" holding them together is tissue-thin, with characters for whom "cardboard" would be a higher-rent district. And for some reason it bugs the hell out of me that Wimmer, along with all the other movies he's stolen scenes from here, also cannibalized his own work (more than one scene was lifted straight from Equilibrium). The only thing to recommend this is one brief, badly-lit shot of Milla Jovovich's rear end. I'm sure I've seen worse movies this month, but offhand I can't think of one. (half)
