MOVIE REVIEW - Ultraviolet (2006)
Director: Kurt Wimmer
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund, William Fichtner
With Equilibrium Kurt Wimmer gave us a fantastic vision of a fascist future where the government called all the emotional shots. With it he combined gunplay with martial arts creating a smooth flowing style of what can only be called GUNg-fu. Now four years later and seems to be trying to recreate his past success. Unfortunately for the majority he fails.
Gone is the cold hard concrete future of the clerics and it is replaced with a bright anime style. That is about the only part that wins through on this movie. It is beautiful to behold the cool CGI slips and turns through a sprawling metropolis, the residents of the city tend to wear bright primary colors in contrast to the government officials clad in black. A small nod must also goto the action, but some it does seem to have been transplanted directly over from Equilibrium.
Now we look beyond the visuals into the heart of the story and that’s where it loses the audience. There barely is one and of course what there is about a war between humans and the last Hemophages, vampire-like humans infected with a silly super-soldier virus and now there could be a cure for them, is just used to string together the action sequences. Shame.
Another thing I couldn’t get away from was how much Jovovich’s character just reminded me of The Bride (Uma Thurman) from Kill Bill. A motorcycle riding, tight fitting leather outfit wearing, kung-fu kicking and sword swinging bad ass bitch. At time it looked like Milla mist have watched Kill Bill repeatedly for inspiration. So instead of making the character here own it seemed like she was lifted from another movie. Shame.
The biggest shame is that this movie was made in Hollywood, if it had been made be the Japanese as the opening credits suggest, it would have probably been praised for it’s vision and style.
Overall: Like Jovovich herself, gorgeous visually but beyond that pretty much nothing. 3/10
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund, William Fichtner
With Equilibrium Kurt Wimmer gave us a fantastic vision of a fascist future where the government called all the emotional shots. With it he combined gunplay with martial arts creating a smooth flowing style of what can only be called GUNg-fu. Now four years later and seems to be trying to recreate his past success. Unfortunately for the majority he fails.
Gone is the cold hard concrete future of the clerics and it is replaced with a bright anime style. That is about the only part that wins through on this movie. It is beautiful to behold the cool CGI slips and turns through a sprawling metropolis, the residents of the city tend to wear bright primary colors in contrast to the government officials clad in black. A small nod must also goto the action, but some it does seem to have been transplanted directly over from Equilibrium.
Now we look beyond the visuals into the heart of the story and that’s where it loses the audience. There barely is one and of course what there is about a war between humans and the last Hemophages, vampire-like humans infected with a silly super-soldier virus and now there could be a cure for them, is just used to string together the action sequences. Shame.
Another thing I couldn’t get away from was how much Jovovich’s character just reminded me of The Bride (Uma Thurman) from Kill Bill. A motorcycle riding, tight fitting leather outfit wearing, kung-fu kicking and sword swinging bad ass bitch. At time it looked like Milla mist have watched Kill Bill repeatedly for inspiration. So instead of making the character here own it seemed like she was lifted from another movie. Shame.
The biggest shame is that this movie was made in Hollywood, if it had been made be the Japanese as the opening credits suggest, it would have probably been praised for it’s vision and style.
Overall: Like Jovovich herself, gorgeous visually but beyond that pretty much nothing. 3/10
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