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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 68078
Released: June 27, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
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 (Widescreen Edition):
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 (Widescreen Edition) Reviews:
Ultraviolet 
2009-12-06 - Ultraviolet is the ultimate science fiction/comic book hero. The action sequences outdo the skills and camera work of "The Matrix" and "Kill Bill" with Milla Jovovich giving her best performance to date. She is the "Titan...the Monolith" in an underground society fighting to save a young boy, and the people of earth from a heartless ruling class. The cinemaphotography is excellent as are the action shots. It's a classic science fiction/comic book action thriller that is easily watched over and over.
great sci fi movie 
2009-11-18 - It was a great movie great action and great story line. You will enjoy this look into the future.
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.
