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| Director
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Kurt Wimmer
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| Starring
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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..more..
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..More..
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