Ultraviolet (2006)

I love this movie so much

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Before You get on board the "Trash It" Train, be Advised that this is NOT the Movie Director Kurt Wimmer or Milla Jovovich made or wanted Released. Wimmer Delivered a 120 Minute, "R" Rated Film. The Studio said "No Way", took it, Edited and Reduced it to an 88 Minute, "PG-13". WoW...No Chance of Survival.This is the Result. Almost all of the Coherency and Power is Lost and what is Found are Cool Looking Snippets of Film that is Straddling the Line between Neo/Post CGI. Some of the Unrealistic Backgrounds, Cityscapes, and such were made to Look Like Anime or Comic-Book "Real" on Purpose to give it a Surreal Pop-Art Quality.The Glazing of the Faces and Skin were also done for that reason. It does render the Movie with a Parallel Dimension Feel. The Techno Soundtrack might not be that Great and by now has an all Too-Familiar Vibe, it Works for what it is.The Story Suffers from the Editing Abomination and has no way of Recovering, and the Continuity, Consistency of the Flow is Stifled Beyond Repair. The only thing left to Admire is Milla's Costumed Body and the Painted Palette of Computer Art, and some Clever Camera Tricks. Those are Enough to make it Worth a Watch and the Movie should be Cut Some Slack, because although it was Butchered Badly, You can still Get a Glimpse of what Might Have Been. And What Might Have Been, Might Have Been...Ultra Cool.

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.

"I like to learn from movies," Jenney folded her hands just after correcting her glasses."And?" Krisp smiled. She had already stood up, being unable to sit still for long times. "What?""Did you learn anything from Ultraviolet?""That swords make excellent torches.""I knew that!""It is new to me," Jenney said."Everyone knows." Krisp gestured wildly with her hands, "You know... like everyone. At least I think they do...""Except for me...""Uhmmm...Except for you.""Like everyone has coffee breaks in the middle of fights?""Yes. Priorities. We all need priorities. Ice cream is one, coffee breaks is another. Except that I don't drink coffee.. but it is the thought that counts!""Talking about breaks... is it me or did you find the in between fight bits also rather.. How would I say that politely....""Confusing?""Good word that. I think someone must have said at some point while they were doing the cool fight scenes: 'Guys, we need something to tie these scenes together so people know what is going on. Guys, we need a plot. So someone get busy and write one'.""What is a plot?" Krisp asked."Uhmmm. Let me think..A plot is what makes the movie make sense. You know. So you go like... 'Oh, now I get it'!""I see.""So someone wrote one. A plot, that is. During a coffee break," Jenney said and shifted her glasses a bit."That is helpful!""And then they fitted the fights scenes to the plot. And then someone said: 'look these don't match up. It doesn't make sense.'""Does it have to?""That is exactly what the writer of the plot said. And the director agreed. We have a plot and we got some really cool fight scenes. The movie is done!""I bet they were glad.""Of course they were. For a movie with a plot is always better than without one.""Great!" Krisp said."But I think they sort of felt uneasy anyway. So they decided to spice the fights and in between bits with CGI.""CGI????""That is graphics.. it is what you use to make scenery or creatures that don't exist or are hard to film. Like Gollem, or dragons or science fiction cities. It is like painting, but with a computer.""Ah. Fake pictures.""Which is okay, until they get noticeable. Then you feel like someone is whispering in your ear: fake. fake..not real.""I thought I ignore that voice. Spoil sport voice!""And then they blurred Ultraviolet's face."Krisp nodded."Cause, you know.. Ultraviolet is ugly.""Is she? Poor Ultraviolet.""But you can't tell, cause they blurred her face.""But I don't think she is ugly," Krisp shook her head."Why not. How can you tell?""Because of logic.""Logic?""She is pretty because the ugly people were not blurred.""Oh....""Logic!" Krisp held up two fingers close together."Yus...Logic." Jenney said a bit uncertain.

It seems that Ultraviolet really doesn't have too good of a reputation. I really can't get behind the negativity though as I found this to be a perfectly entertaining bit of sci-fi action. It's certainly a case of style over substance but again that's okay. The writing isn't great to be fair but the movie is more or less relentless in its action and spectacle. The reason that it ultimately gets away with this, is because Milla Jovovich looks and acts the part; and she is in practically every scene. Like many female fronted superhero movies, it gets a bad rap and I often wonder if there is at least a little bit of sexism to blame for that. But whatever the case, I usually find these types of movies far better than their reputation suggests they will be. Having a kick-ass, statuesque girl fronting a superhero flick makes them automatically more interesting as far as I am concerned.Ultraviolet, like Sam Raimi's Darkman, is one of those occasional movies that follows the conventions of a comic-book adaption without actually being based on a comic at all. The credit sequence shows various fake comics to give the impression that it is, while the storyline, title and heroine certainly seem like they have come from the pages of one. We have a dystopian future world, an immoral figure ruling over the masses, an army of robotic black-clad minions defending him, a group of rebels hopelessly outnumbered and...vampires. The latter plot element is one that could have been developed more but it is certainly quite distinctive. The action scenes are protracted, over-the-top, wilfully unrealistic and fun. The overall look is perhaps a little too fake at times, with lots of CGI and visual effects that make everything look slightly more comic-book. But, at least it has a consistency of look and feel and even if it is a little excessive, sometimes excess can be okay. It's certainly nowhere near as bad as is often made out to be. If you go into this one with the right attitude, you should really have a bit of fun.