Ultraviolet (2006)

User Rating:

3.9/10   

Director:

Kurt Wimmer

Writer (WGA):

Kurt Wimmer (written by)

Release Date:

3 March 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

The Blood War is On

Plot:

A beautiful hemophage infected with a virus that gives her superhuman powers has to protect a boy in a futuristic world, who is thought to be carrying antigens that would destroy all hemophages.

Plot Keywords:

Disease | Speed | Vampire | Hemophagia | Totalitarian

Cast

Milla Jovovich	...	Violet
Cameron Bright	...	Six
Nick Chinlund	...	Daxus
Sebastien Andrieu	...	Nerva
Ida Martin	...	Young Violet
William Fichtner	...	Garth
David Collier	...	BF-1
Kieran O'Rorke	...	Detective Cross
Digger Mesch	...	Detective Endera
Ryan Martin	...	Detective Breeder
Steven Calcote	...	Young Daxus
Ricardo Mamood-Vega	...	Violet's Husband (as Ricardo Mamood)
Mike Smith	...	Hospital Hemophage
Clay Cullen	...	Rebel Hemophage
Jennifer Caputo	...	Elizabeth P. Watkins

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sequences of violent action throughout, partial nudity and language.

Runtime:

88 min | USA:94 min (unrated version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Australia:M | Singapore:PG | Canada:14A (Alberta/Manitoba) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (British Columbia/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | UK:15 | Sweden:11 | Malaysia:18SG | Malaysia:U (cut version) | Brazil:14 | Portugal:M/16 | Ireland:15A | Germany:12 | France:Unrated | Canada:PG | Finland:K-11 | Argentina:13 | Iceland:12 | Norway:11 | South Korea:12 | Philippines:PG-13 | Japan:PG-12 | Netherlands:12 | South Korea:15 (DVD rating) | South Korea:15 | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Hong Kong, China

Company:

Screen Gems

Trivia:

Director Trademark: [Kurt Wimmer]the muzzle flash on Violet's Uzi-like submachine resembles the biohazard symbol, similar to the way in Wimmer's previous movie Equilibrium (2002), that John Preston's guns have muzzle flashes that resemble the Tetragrammaton symbol.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Six's left eyebrow has a sliced separation in it. In the movie, this jumps from left to right a number of times, showing that the film is flipped in spots.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Violet: Hello. My name is Violet and I was born into a world you may not understand.

Movie Connections:

References Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)

Worst movie I have ever seen.

I registered at this site just to tell you how GODAWFUL this movie truly is. About 10 minutes into the movie I started praying for a brain tumor to arrive and kill me. Let me break this down for you.

Plot: There is none really. Violet has some kind of ultra-contagious plague that the government is trying to eliminate. Even though it's so contagious that BREATHING THE SAME AIR can infect you. So half the people run around with gas masks. The lead "bad guy" is so obsessive that he buys his GUNS in sealed plastic bags. Which just makes NO sense when you get to the end of the movie. At one point there is a 10 minute (or less) love interest between Violet and some random vampire. No character development, so don't worry about paying attention. Did I mention that there seem to be virtually NO bad side effects to this "plague"? You become super strong, super fast, and super pretty much everything. There are vague references in the movie about Violet "dying" but this isn't really adequately explained so I'm gonna assume since she never DOES die (unfortunately), that it can't be that hard to avoid. They keep using "holograms" as an excuse to build false suspense...but nobody really cares because the movie is just such a pile of crap that I was just blankly staring at the screen at this point.

Graphics: sub par and over hyped. As an example: For some reason these "vampires" who are being hunted to the brink of extinction buy a belt that has a SUN trapped inside it for fusion power...this somehow lets violet drive her motorcycle sideways across a building while being shot at by a helicopter (something about gravity powers). She kills the two pilots and this is apparently enough to make the helicopter explode. The whole time I was watching this, I was bored. HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN? The graphics are SO cheesy that you simply cannot suspend your disbelief. Parts of it just look like a violent Toy Story. Not that I dislike Toy Story, but the point is, the CGI graphics in it should NOT be combined with live action.

I can't go on...this movie was the worst thing I've ever seen.

it is worse than Plan 9 from outerspace.

For the love of ALL that is holy, do NOT see it.