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Ultraviolet (2006)

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Average Rating: 2.8/10
Reviews Counted: 76
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 69

An incomprehensible and forgettable sci-fi thriller, Ultraviolet is inept in every regard.

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Average Rating: 2.1/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 17

An incomprehensible and forgettable sci-fi thriller, Ultraviolet is inept in every regard.

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In the late 21st a disease called Hemophagia has genetically modified nearly an entire race of people, leaving them with such enhanced speed, intelligence, and strength that they resemble vampires in nearly every way. Fear begins to breed within the power elite as the disease continues to spread and those infected prove to be truly superhuman, and now, a civil war is brewing between uninfected humans and those altered by Hemophagia. Caught dead in the center of it is an infected woman called

Jun 27, 2006

$18.3M

Sony Pictures

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All Critics (76) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (70) | DVD (12)

The most receptive audience will mainly be enlightened to know that you can make a movie as thoroughly unprofessional as this one and still get it released in 3,000 theaters.

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment (1)
Village Voice
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Despite the expository speeches draped over this like birthday bunting, the story remains largely incomprehensible.

March 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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Ultra-dumb.

March 25, 2006 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | Comments (3)
Dallas Morning News
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Crank your brain to its lowest possible idle and you'll still overthink Ultraviolet.

March 8, 2006 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
Entertainment Weekly
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Wimmer ain't no Cassavetes.

March 6, 2006 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
Boston Globe
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Uwe Boll would be proud of this movie. It's pretentious and oh-so-serious. The tone of the movie is one of high art, but it stinks like a landfill.

March 6, 2006 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
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Woefully nonsensical from start to finish...

January 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

Give us a superhero movie that has a female protagonist that's a real character with emotions, and personality, and not just some model performing stunts and running around in skimpy outfits.

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment (1)
Cinema Crazed

Incoherent video gamey sci-fi action movie.

July 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Really, you can't blame Ms. Jovovich.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | Comment (1)
Big Picture Big Sound

Undemanding, unengaging, and glaringly unoriginal, Ultraviolet gives real comic books a bad name.

July 2, 2007 Full Review Source: musicOMH.com | Comment
musicOMH.com

The narrative is so jumbled that even the actors can't seem to keep track of what exactly is meant to be happening.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

Some spectacular action, though obviously digital: free of risk, free of drama.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

Derivative, adolescent tosh.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Unengaging, uninspired and unwatchable. A criminal waste of time and talent.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comments (4)
Empire Magazine

Lordy mama, the thing's just unspeakable.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | Comment
Daily Mirror [UK]

Just when you thought Aeon Flux couldn't have been any more rubbish, along comes Ultraviolet to prove you wrong.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: ViewLondon | Comment
ViewLondon

Director Kurt Wimmer claims to have written Ultraviolet specifically with lead actress Milla Jovovich in mind. No, I don't know what Jovovich did to deserve this either . . .

June 15, 2006 Full Review Source: Sci-Fi Movie Page | Comment

The only redeeming feature is a production design so outrageously mad that you will genuinely have no idea what you're watching for more than half the time.

June 6, 2006 Full Review Source: BBC | Comment

The cheesy CGI effects look like they were done on a 15-year-old Macintosh.

May 12, 2006 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
Sacramento News & Review

Ultraviolet is absolutely worth a look -- if not a listen or a thought.

May 6, 2006 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comments (4)
eFilmCritic.com

... inacreditável que o diretor do eficiente Equilibrium seja o responsável por uma porcaria mal roteirizada, pavorosamente dirigida, repleta de efeitos visuais capengas e péssimas atuações como esta produção.

April 30, 2006 Comment
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Audience Reviews for Ultraviolet

I don't know...I kind of liked it. It's a litte different and a bit wierd. But it feels like a mix of Resident Evil, Blade and Sin City. And those are all good movies. I'm not gonna try to convince someone that it's good. Cause I know that I'm wrong. I read that a lot of other reviews calls it hard to understand...And

January 21, 2011
TheGame90
Martin Sahlin

Super Reviewer

First, they made her a weapon. That was their second deadliest mistake. Now, they've made her a target...The story of this movie is decently good, fighting scenes were okay and some effects were cool too, said that it's all down hill from there, the scenery looks really fake and the acting was abysmal. This is all the

July 5, 2009
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Manu Gino

Super Reviewer

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