[.ca] Ultraviolet [UMD Mini for PSP]

muddled and incoherent:
talk about a pointless movie.i mean,i love Milla as much as the next guy,but even she can't save this disaster.she looks hot and she's in great shape.she's just in the wrong movie.i could only take so much of her character,V(Short for Violet)going up against increasingly overwhelming odds time after time and emerging with barely a scrape.and that's mostly all this movie is,in my mind:a collection of action/fight sequences,with pretty much no coherent plot.i didn't particularly like Either of the first two Resident Evil movies,but this is worse than both of them.i don't mind saying i was bored out of my skull.even the action sequences become boring,once you see the same thing over and over again.talk about a train wreck.this movie really made my head hurt.i'm sorry i lost 94 minutes of my life for this thing.check out Resident Evil:Extinction(on the big screen)instead.anyway,for me Ultraviolet is a definite 1/5

Even though I've been warned I still went ahead and watch this.....go me:
Personally, I believe Milla Jovovich is great, even in this because she handles the 'tough' role really well. Cameron Bright also did a good job in his role. In this film I'm going to hold the director entirely responsible for bringing together this mess. `Ultraviolet' is something that I'd expect from Uwe Boll. The film relies completely on CGI and still manages to fall short of expectations. The movie bears some resemblance to `Equilibrium,' like the art of the Gun-Kata and how society is stratified. If you haven't seen `Equilibrium,' you must. It is Kurt Wimmer's greatest movie of all time. On this film Wimmer thought that the pretty colors are supposed to distract us from the incoherent script? It didn't work on this film. `The Sky Captain'-style post-processing just makes everything look blurry. (And why is it applied to only half the shots?) Just about everything in this movie is borrowed from something else, and it's slapped together on the thinnest of premises and tarted up with lots of CGI. When there's a break from the ridiculously-choreographed action sequences, you're bludgeoned with nonsensical subplots and indescribably awful dialogue until the heroine met the villain in their final showdown. Anyways, I think that there is no justification in watching this film, spare yourself the pain and re-watch `The Fifth Element' or any one of the "Resident Evil's" instead.

Nasty:
Nasty...I can't say it any other way. This was a very bad bad movie and I would'nt recomend it to anyone. I like Milla Jovovich and most of her movies I will usually buy, even if they are'nt particularly good, but this is the exception. Like I'm sure it's been mentioned previously this movie was kinda like watching someone else play a video game for two hours. Mila plays our hero, a vampire-virus-mutated "Hemophages" (don't ask) living in the 21st century. The plot basically has her trying to steal a super weapon off some bad guy named "Daxus" who intendes to use it on her and her people. That's pretty much it... Her performance is dry expressionless, the movie has no real story to speak of. It's one long boring CGI chase through a non descript futuristic soft focus city... Don't bother with this one.

Inexplicably Bad.:
I sat down to this with low expectations and it certainly didn't disappoint. I didn't expect the film to be emotionally engaging or that it be brilliantly plotted. I did expect it to deliver well executed action and have a coherent story. Actually all we get is Milla Jovovich's bared midriff(which the camera lingers on at every opportunity)and well choreographed, but badly thought out, combat scenes that would seem barely credible in a computer game, finally some chase sequences so poorly rendered that you would be forgiven for thinking they'd actually lifted them whole from the aforementioned video game. The most annoying thing is the complete absence of internal logic in basics like the fight scenes: in one scene 20+ guards run at her with swords(why are they using swords?), she has guns but fights them with her own swords. In the next scene 20+ guards run toward her with guns. Why? If you had a gun and were faced with a 'killing machine' who'd already killed 350 of your mates you would stand at the side of the room and shoot them(probably hide behind something too), unless of course you were trying to get yourself killed in a movie. This is the sort of film where the action becomes boring very quickly because there is no sense of danger or tension, you never feel there is the slightest danger that the lead character won't get to fight 'the end of level baddie'. This comes from the school of film making that suggests that, as long as you keep the screen full of things happening, it doesn't matter what those things are. It DOES matter. Good action films don't have to challenge the intellect but they should not insult it. This does.

Dizzying and Over-Stylized Wreck:
Technology in video games is consistently making an effort to look more realistic to game players. Ultraviolet is a motion picture that seemingly makes an effort to look more like a video game. I'm sort of indifferent to that direction I suppose, but it's a point I still think is important to make. Ultraviolet is visually unique and the pace of the film doesn't quit. You can tell that director Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium) doesn't really want us to believe any of this is real as he is striving to create a dystopian world that would exist otherwise only within a comic book or Japanese animation. Ultraviolet does indeed require a vast imagination, but for some of us that's not such a bad thing. Ultraviolet is a chase movie about Violet (Milla Jovovich) who, among many others in her time (in the late 21st century), is infected with a virus that gives her super human powers. Violet is part of an underground terrorist group that exists to fight against the resident dictatorship. Soon enough, Violet steals a child (Cameron Bright) from the government and finds out he may be the cure to this disease that allows her to be invincible and be really good at driving a motorcycle. The terrorist group she is in with decides the child must die and so Violet begins running from everyone with the child. With some more twists and turns Ultraviolet leads up to a formulaic showdown and more dramatic and unrealistic fight scenes than you could possible imagine. Ultraviolet is an excessive mess. The fight scenes are perplexing and miserable to watch, not to mention completely unrealistic, which is something I can almost forgive. Ultraviolet is the ultimate example of over-stylized filmmaking. In the action genre, the viewer should probably never be aware that a fight scene is choreographed while viewing it, but if a fine line exists between dancing and fighting then Ultraviolet is balancing very carefully upon it and it is doing so right next to Joel Schumacher's Batman and Robin. The story also seemed jumbled and confusing. I really wasn't sure what was happening until the very end and even then I had some questions that I wasn't even motivated to have answered. The dialogue was delivered stoically and isn't very good to begin with. The music was as distracting as the visuals. Other than that it was a visually original film and I guess that is where it earns a star for me. Well, that and Milla's bare bottom.