Ultraviolet (2006)

Posted : 1 month ago at Oct 20 14:04

First of all, this review is made based on the UNRATED cut of the movie. It does indeed contain some major changes when compared to the original, primarily the kind of stuff that you can't believe was originally left out. Anyhow, on with the review. This has got to be the most critically underrated movie in quite a few years. It has a whoopping 7% rating from the critics at rottentomatoes.com, and I am always stunned when I hear that number. I mean Ultraviolet has it's fair share of problems. The pacing does seem pretty awkward at times, and there's not much build up to the spectacular final fight to make it meaningful. Also, there's little to no actual character development on Violet, which seems sorta odd, especially since she is the main character here. But hell, are we supposed to not ...Read more

Rating : 7/10

Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago at Aug 2 20:33

"Hello. My name is Violet and I was born into a world you may not understand." Ultraviolet is high-concept, visually spectacular science fiction movie...it is also a criminal waste of both time and talent. Audiences may remember director Kurt Wimmer's initial success with the film Equilibrium. That was a highly impressive, taut action movie with an underlying message regarding the cost of being human. The established fans of Wimmer probably aimed their expectations unfathomably high when Ultraviolet was announced. Could this be another massive cult hit like The Matrix? Unfortunately, the emphatic answer is NO! It's difficult to describe all things that went wrong, as the answer is pretty much everything. The film is so dreadful, in fact, that finding the positives would prove so hard an...Read more

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago at Feb 25 0:26

I've was told from plenty of people that Ultraviolet was a terrible movie and after watching I would have to agree.
The writing was bad with little story that really wasn't interesting.
The acting was bad as no one felt real and spoke crappy dialog.
Action scenes felt dry and uninteresting also.
Music was bad techno music that felt forced.
Now I've heard that the director of this directed Equilibrium which I've been wanting to see and it's suppose to be good and I hope it is because this movie says to me that the director can't direct.

Rating : 3/10

Posted : 2 years, 5 months ago at Jun 24 15:06

I wish this was filmed in Ultraviolet, so I wouldn't be able to see it.

Rating : 1/10

Posted : 2 years, 5 months ago at Jun 6 1:23

I was actually surprised by this one. I was expecting it to be an absolute piece of crap but it really wasn't as pathetic as some people led me to believe. Perhaps I didn't find it as bad as I thought it would be as I'd watched it with very low expectations.

I was able to tell that this was Kurt Wimmer's work because there were similarities to Equilibrium but unlike Equilibrium, Ultraviolet didn't have me enthralled. In fact I felt nothing during the movie and was left with nothing after it had finished. There were some cool moves though but there was also a lot of sweeping shots of Milla Jovovich's abdomen. It's safe to say I can recall what her belly button looks like...

Rating : 4/10