The tale, beginning with narrated flashbacks that make it curiously seem like a sequel, essentially is an excuse for a seemingly endless series of ultraviolet, uh, ultraviolent, action scenes.
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Ultraviolet (2006)
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Reviews Counted:74
Fresh:6
Rotten:68
Average Rating:2.7/10
Consensus: An incomprehensible and forgettable sci-fi thriller, Ultraviolet is inept in every regard.
Theatrical Release:Mar 3, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $18,337,122
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund, William Fichtner
Director: Kurt Wimmer
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Reviews for Ultraviolet
Wimmer has created no logical framework for flashy, ultraviolent and frankly cheesy sequences.
03/03/06
Top CriticWimmer is so brazen that he doesn't even bother to pretend that there's an original concept here: all his ideas are borrowed from other movies that borrowed from other movies that borrowed from The Matrix, and he doesn't care who knows it.
03/03/06
Kurt Wimmer's film epitomizes just about everything wrong with post-Matrix, comic book-/video-game-inspired, Hong Kong-action-style sci-fi thrillers.
03/03/06
Pic is hermetically sealed in a synthetic wrapping that's so total -- Sony's top-flight high-def cameras, visibly low-budget CG work, exceptionally hackneyed and imitative action and dialogue --that it arrives a nearly lifeless film.
03/03/06
Top CriticExactly what you expect--a slick, slight, energetic video game of a movie that is far better than most will admit.
03/03/06
Ultraviolet is nice to gaze at but otherwise simplistic, senseless, and eminently skippable.
03/03/06
Ultraviolet is all second act. There is no beginning to the story and no end; it's all middle. A non-sensical, hard to follow assemblage of action, completely devoid of any context.
03/03/06
An unholy combination of comic book and video game,...so awful that you'd swear it had been directed by Uwe Boll.
03/03/06
Cool martial arts and special effects barely make up for laughably atrocious writing and acting and an obvious sci-fi premise.
03/03/06
...shot two years ago... and now being unceremoniously dumped into your neighborhood cineplex, which -- thanks to films like this -- has been cluttered with as much garbage as a Skid Row alley in recent months.
03/03/06
Great action... but unfortunately, the characters had to open their mouths. That's when Ultraviolet becomes ultra vapid.
03/03/06
Although it masquerades as a futuristic action-thriller, Ultraviolet functions best as a multi-million dollar commercial for Milla Jovovich's personal trainer.
03/03/06
It's well known that writer/director Kurt Wimmer hates movie critics. Ultraviolet is the reason why.
03/03/06
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