 Director :
Kurt Wimmer
Starring : Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright
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The plot of Ultraviolet
Toward the end of this century, a peculiar disease turns some of the world's population into beings with enhanced speed, strength, and intelligence. As this new breed separates from the rest of humankind and the world teeters on the brink of a civil war, an infected woman (Jovovich) is caught in the middle, not yet aware that she might be the one person who can restore peace.
Ultraviolet Movie Review
Review by Dustin Putman:
population of virus-stricken vampires known as Hemophages, tough-cookie Hemophage Violet (Milla Jovovich) has but one mission: kill as many humans as possible. Hoping to penetrate the city's government in an attempt to stop their plan to exterminate Hemophages, Violet is given a briefcase, presumably carrying a weapon, that she must deliver before it detonates. What she discovers instead is Six (Cameron Bright), a ten-year-old boy who has been implanted with the key to her breed's savior—and the key to her breed's demise. As Violet and Six set out to escape the authorities, they have to move fast: without getting the answers they need, both of their lives hang in the balance.Aeon Flux," that calamitously misguided 2005 action-fantasy starring Charlize Theron, left a lot to be desired, and 2005's "Elektra" was even worse that that. "Ultraviolet," yet another female-centric genre pic to give female-centric genre pics a bad name, doesn't exactly improve matters. Following a comic book-inspired opening credits sequence that is conceptually creative and visually promising, the film sinks like a stone. The story, for one, is a mess of indescribable proportions; not only is it frequently incomprehensible, but it also abruptly tends to introduce new details and developments depending on their convenience to advancing the plot. Review By Joshua Tyler:
Writer/director Kurt Wimmer reaffirms his position as the worst motion picture director not named Uwe Boll working in the movie industry with Ultraviolet. Wimmer gained a little undeserved cult fame with the theatrically ignored movie Equilibrium, but despite some really odd pockets of geek love, the film was a disaster. Ultraviolet is no better, in fact it's a lot worse.It's all style over substance in the story of Violet (Milla Jovovich), a self-described hemophage. Hemophage is a fancy way of saying genetically engineered vampire. Except there's no neck biting for these blood lusters, that doesn't seem to be in their genetic coding. Having been modified by a contagious disease in a nearish future, they're vampires only in name, and it's odd that Wimmer bothered writing them as vamps in the first place since it serves no real purpose in his script. But then most of the stuff that was written down in whatever served as this movie's script serves no purpose, so why should that be any different.Violet bursts onto the screen running and gunning and shooting. She's soon intertwined in a plot to destroy all of her hemophage brethren, or the human race or something. Along for the ride is a kid, whom everyone seems to want though no one seems to know exactly why. Having lost a kid of her own once, Violet gets massively maternal and decides to protect him, though I personally suspect she was just looking for an excuse to do some killing. Or rather it was the creatively brain dead Mister Wimmer who was looking for the excuse. |
