Ultraviolet is a 2006 film written and directed by Kurt Wimmer and if the film has any type of underlying message it's that Wimmer doesn't have a lot of imagination.
The film is about a dystopian world where vampire exist. They were created by mistake after a medical company trying to create ... Read review
Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil, The Fifth Element), Cameron Bright (X-Men 3), Nick Chinlund ... more
(The Legend of Zorro) and William Fichtner (The Longest Yard) star in this story of a woman caught in a futuristic civil war between the government and a subcult...
Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil The Fifth Element) Cameron Bright (X-Men 3) Nick Chinlund ... more
(The Legend of Zorro) and William Fichtner (The Longest Yard) star in this story of a woman caught in a futuristic civil war between the government and a subcult...
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Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Action/Adventure - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Jack Ging, Marla Heasley, Lance Legault, Melinda Culea, Mr T, Dwight Schultz, Dirk Benedict, George Peppard, Carl Franklin
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
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Advantages: Enjoyable action film Disadvantages: Very unoriginal
Ultraviolet is a 2006 film written and directed by Kurt Wimmer and if the film has any type of underlying message it's that Wimmer doesn't have a lot of imagination.
The film is about a dystopian world where vampire exist. They were created by mistake after a medical company trying to create a form of super soldier (that old story) accidentally released a virus. The virus causes a person to become stronger, faster etc but it also causes ... ...taken a disliking to these 'hemophages' as they're called and had them all put into ghettos and eventually killed. However, several of them escaped capture and formed an underground resistance against the humans. Thus starts the blood wars (makes you cringe)
Violet (played by Milla Jovovich) is one of the hemophages, infected whilst pregnant she was captured and experimented on and given a forced abortion. She eventually escaped the ... more
Ultraviolet is a 2006 film written and directed by Kurt Wimmer and if the film has any type of underlying message it's that Wimmer doesn't have a lot of imagination.
The film is about a dystopian world where vampire exist. They were created by mistake after a medical company trying to create a form of super soldier (that old story) accidentally released a virus. The virus causes a person to become stronger, faster etc but it also causes a massive reduction of their life span. The humans have taken a disliking to these 'hemophages' as they're called and had them all put into ghettos and eventually killed. However, several of them escaped capture and formed an underground resistance against the humans. Thus starts the blood wars (makes you cringe)
Violet (played by Milla Jovovich) is one of the hemophages, infected whilst pregnant she was captured and experimented on and given a forced abortion. She eventually escaped the compound and has deep hatred for humans for what they done to her. However, Violet comes upon a boy who is wanted by both the vampires and the humans as some sort of final weapon. Violet's maternal instinct causes her to try ad protect the boy from both sides but she is in trouble as she only has 36 more hours to live.
This film as far as I can tell is not actually based on a comic book. The film gives you that impression at the start my a montage of Japanese style comics that form the credits but this was merely to establish a premise for the style of the film. Throughout the film is made to look like anime with bright colours and ridiculous costumes and settings. (I shall include any pictures I can find.) I found the sets and the costumes to look a bit stupid. You got the whole anime idea and it was well done in that respect and the CGI looked quite good but what is appropriate in a cartoon (they are cartoons, wake up) or a comic just didn't look great in live action. The bad guys in the film also looked an awful lot like the bad guys in Wimmer's other big action film Equilibrium
The directing of the film was quite hit and miss. At times we had amazing shots that looked really cool. There was a brilliant scene with the silhouette of a guard standing on a roof top at dusk but then at other times it looks abit unrealistic and unoriginal. The action choreography is basically where a film like this has to succeed and to a large extent it did in this film. There were alot of exciting well shot fight scenes but then there were also some not so good ones. At times you just feel let down. At one point Violet is surrounded by about 12 vampires with swords and she kills them all in a split second which is all well and good for her and her ability but you feel abit disappointed. That was potentially a very exciting action scene. At other times the actions scenes are just implied, too many times the camera looked away and when it had turned back everyone around her was dead. The actual action was the only strength this film could have and he kept skipping over it. The story was crap. No-one cared about the story. The action scenes were very like Equilibrium when you did see them but they were enjoyable enough and don't take that as a massive complaint.
The story was very unoriginal. The vampire aspect was very like the Underworld series (I believe there's a third one coming). There's a scene were Violet walks past a mot of vampires lounging about in the vampire hideout and they all stare at her as she walks past which really reminds you of Underworld The genetically engineered soldier idea stolen from several computer games and crappy films(incidentally Wimmer will be directing the upcoming Metal Gear Solid film). You really could see strong elements of Aeon Flux and Resident Evil in there as well. Especially as Milla Yovovich plays essentially the exact same character.
The soundtrack wasn't great, it was the same drum and bass track throughout almost and fell short of giving the adrenaline infused music needed for the action scenes. At the opening credits there was a track that sounded almost exactly like something from the Tim Burton Batman films
The acting was pretty bad by alot most of the cast. The vampires especially were rubbish. Milla the same character from Resident Evil and The Fifth Element which was pretty standard for the film and you can't really complain. Cameron Bright from Birth and Godsend played Six and his performance was quite good. William Fichtner plays Garth a small role as Violet's only friend. There were also some really cheesey lines in the film like just before a fight scene the bad guy says "It is on" and Violet approaches a large group saying "You are all going to die"
Overall I think the film lacked a good enough story, you don't expect much from a film like this but the story was too unoriginal. The action scenes weren't enough and some of them just weren't sufficient but the film did have some fantastic action scenes. The acting was mediocre and the soundtrack below average. The style of the film was an interesting move to take, sadly it didn't really work but it was impressively like anime from the settings to the costumes to the way some of the characters looked and acted.
I've given the film three stars because although I have a few complaints with it I found it watchable enough and overall mediocre. I wouldn't watch it again and I definitely wouldn't buy it on DVD. I would, however, recommend it to anyone who enjoyed Resident Evil , Aeon Flux and Underworld . Fans of Equilibrium may find this to be just a slightly dumbed down version. Equilibrium had a great dystopian plot and rather good acting and you could sort of wringe a moral from it, Ultraviolet had al the same action etc but was just a little dryer.
You can't sell a film on a pretty actress, action scenes & lots of CGI. It needs a good story to bind it together & a plot to drive it from start to finish. The film is obviously based on a comic of some sort judging from the opening titles, and they try to hard to stick to the comic style. The plot gets left by the wayside and they go for lots of action and fighting which really doesn't help the film very much. Yes, Milla looks excellent in her ... ...them. The buildings and backdrops look stunning. You can tell that the fight scenes were made to look so fast by over-cranking the camera to get the illusion of more speed.
Sadly the film suffers from being over-cut. The DVD contains an alternate start (much better than the one used in the film) and several cut scenes (which I would have included in my version, I assume they were cut for pacing reasons) & some extended versions of already existing ...
atytyut2434 17.07.2008
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Advantages: True Scifi-meets Comic book, action, speed, FX Disadvantages: Jerky at times
...a long ago comic-book classic Ultraviolet takes us into the vampiric world of the future where vampires are hunted to near extinction by the human creators. A post -apocalyptic world of a deadly disease which leaves some in a slight vampiric form and their struggle against a tyrannical society that gives echoes to "Big Brother".
The fight scenes are themselves very predicatble but the fx used are highly successful, again, Mila Jovovich is in the ... ...hell bent on the supposed wiping out of the mutants created from an experimental virus unleashed upon an unsuspecting world, where the story line twists as Mila's character (Violet) is a would be mother having contracted the virus and thus losing a child in childbirth because of the haemophage disease that wipes out so many of the population in the early 21st century, soon discovers that the weapon told to be the last weapon against teh haemophage ...
free0bird 04.11.2006
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Advantages: Some good stunt scenes, Milla looks nice Disadvantages: Poor storyline, rubiish directing, wooden acting, no character development
I have to say that I was seriously disappointed by this film and regard it to be truly awful. Seriously awful
The premise of the film is that, in the late 21st Century, a blood borne infectious disease known as hemoglophagia and those infected are to all intents and purposes turned into Vampires. The remaining "humans" outcaste the Hemophages and a war is going on between the two. The film follows, Milla Jovovich's character, Violet, a young woman ... ...her husband and her unborn child. Violet is now an emotionally dead killing machine, a member of an underground resistance movement of hemophages waging a guerilla war against the humans. The story, goes from bad to worse as Violet steals a weapon which turns out to be a child that could either wipe out all the vampires or cure them. Cue endless cliches, and scenes that are so predictable that a blind man could see them
The real pitfalls of this ...
mkkreuk 29.09.2007
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In the mid-21st century a virus has turned part of the earth's population into hemophages, vampire-like creatures with heightened speed and dexterity, and a fascist government is intent on stamping them out. Enter Violet, a hemophage determined to fight for her people. Her battle takes an unexpected turn, however, when she finds herself protecting Six, a mysterious young child who was raised in a lab.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date
30/10/2006
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
CDR 36206
Barcode
5035822620636
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Main Language
English
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In the mid-21st century, a virus has turned part of the earth's population into hemophages, vampire-like creatures with heightened speed and dexterity, and a fascist government is intent on stamping them out. Enter Violet (Milla Jovovich), a hemophage determined to fight for her people. Her battle takes an unexpected turn, however, when she finds herself protecting Six (Cameron Bright), a mysterious young child who was raised in a lab. Although the artwork in the opening credits would lead you to believe otherwise, writer/director Kurt Wimmer (EQUILIBRIUM) reportedly based ULTRAVIOLET not on a comic book but on John Cassavetes's 1980 film GLORIA, in which a woman must protect a young boy who is carrying some information sought by the Mafia. Tailor-made for young action fans raised on anime and videogames who want nothing more than to see a beautiful heroine leave a path of destruction behind her, ULTRAVIOLET cross-pollinates plot threads from popular franchises like THE MATRIX and UNDERWORLD. Creating a brightly hued, soft-focus environment constructed entirely with CGI and a green screen, ULTRAVIOLET's look is much like SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW. Cementing the reputation she established with similar athletic, minimally clothed roles in THE FIFTH ELEMENT and the RESIDENT EVIL films, Jovovich will go down in the books as a sci-fi femme fatale for the ages. Her Ultraviolet--who inexplicably changes her hair colour and outfits seemingly at will--is a lethal melding of Morticia Adams at a rave and KILL BILL's Bride. Pulling off moves that clearly demonstrate the training she underwent for the role, and usually with a bare midriff, she gives her fans plenty to enjoy. Wimmer wisely leaves the door open for further adventures in the saga.
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