Ultraviolet (Widescreen Unrated Edition): Amazon.ca: Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, William Fichtner, Nicholas Chinlund, Kurt Wimmer, John Baldecchi, Ultravi Productions Inc: DVD

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth watching, Nov 9 2006

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Susan Thompson "beezoo" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ultraviolet (Widescreen Unrated Edition) (DVD)

This movie is terrible. I liked Jovovich a lot in the 5th Element, and I generally like this genre, so I had some hopes that this movie would at least be entertaining. But the acting is wooden, the dialogue is tortured and the plot is frankly just derivative crap. It's obvious that the writing here was sub-par and even the action doesn't cover that. The first line is "My name is Violet and I was born into a world you may not understand" and there's a reason we don't understand it--it makes very little sense, especially as it is told in this movie. And frankly it's impossible to care enough to try. Why is her superpower (aside from some generic martial arts) apparently her ability to change the colour of her clothes and hair? I know she worked/works as a model in real life but it's hardly initimidating to be attacked by fashion. Also, the computer generated special effects are pretty sub-par, despite what the people marketing the movie will try to tell you about it being in the league of Skycaptain and the World of Tomorrow. It's very hard to suspend your disbelief that she is really riding her motorcycle around on the roof when you can clearly see she is not. They would have done better to rely on more stunt people than software here. Probably men and some women can enjoy parts of this movie purely because of Jovovich running around in skimpy outfits, but any appeal that has will be dampened by the constant insults to your intelligence and the jarring, ridiculous lines she has to deliver. Don't bother with this one.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sit back and enjoy it., Feb 3 2012

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Stefanie Beaudin "hitokiri_ookima" (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ultraviolet (Rated) (Bilingual Edition) [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

I was simply looking for something to entertain me.
Ultraviolet did just that.

Basic storyline, great action scenes and colorful.
I found it entertaining, fun to watch.
I found it eye candy and there is a definate different style, strangely it reminds me a bit of that movie with Christian Bale that flew under the radar but was oh so good (Equilibrium)

It has been added to my collection, and strangely enough I prefer it over Aeon flux (which was still good)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Dizzying and Over-Stylized Wreck, Aug 30 2007

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K. Driscoll - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ultraviolet (Widescreen Unrated Edition) (DVD)

Technology in video games is consistently making an effort to look more realistic to game players. Ultraviolet is a motion picture that seemingly makes an effort to look more like a video game. I'm sort of indifferent to that direction I suppose, but it's a point I still think is important to make. Ultraviolet is visually unique and the pace of the film doesn't quit. You can tell that director Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium) doesn't really want us to believe any of this is real as he is striving to create a dystopian world that would exist otherwise only within a comic book or Japanese animation. Ultraviolet does indeed require a vast imagination, but for some of us that's not such a bad thing.

Ultraviolet is a chase movie about Violet (Milla Jovovich) who, among many others in her time (in the late 21st century), is infected with a virus that gives her super human powers. Violet is part of an underground terrorist group that exists to fight against the resident dictatorship. Soon enough, Violet steals a child (Cameron Bright) from the government and finds out he may be the cure to this disease that allows her to be invincible and be really good at driving a motorcycle. The terrorist group she is in with decides the child must die and so Violet begins running from everyone with the child. With some more twists and turns Ultraviolet leads up to a formulaic showdown and more dramatic and unrealistic fight scenes than you could possible imagine.

Ultraviolet is an excessive mess. The fight scenes are perplexing and miserable to watch, not to mention completely unrealistic, which is something I can almost forgive. Ultraviolet is the ultimate example of over-stylized filmmaking. In the action genre, the viewer should probably never be aware that a fight scene is choreographed while viewing it, but if a fine line exists between dancing and fighting then Ultraviolet is balancing very carefully upon it and it is doing so right next to Joel Schumacher's Batman and Robin. The story also seemed jumbled and confusing. I really wasn't sure what was happening until the very end and even then I had some questions that I wasn't even motivated to have answered. The dialogue was delivered stoically and isn't very good to begin with. The music was as distracting as the visuals. Other than that it was a visually original film and I guess that is where it earns a star for me. Well, that and Milla's bare bottom.

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1.0 out of 5 stars A Poor Man's Aeon Flux !
I wanted SO much to like Ultraviolet,but it is plagued by poor editing and subplots that are either unfinished or that
simply go nowhere.It is all look but no substance. Read more

Published on Mar 10 2009 by Robert Badgley

1.0 out of 5 stars Nasty
Nasty...I can't say it any other way. This was a very bad bad movie and I would'nt recomend it to anyone. Read more

Published on Oct 30 2007 by Paul