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.
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06/06/06
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
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
Reviews for Ultraviolet
Top CriticSome spectacular action, though obviously digital: free of risk, free of drama.
06/24/06
Top CriticUnengaging, uninspired and unwatchable. A criminal waste of time and talent.
06/24/06
Top CriticLordy mama, the thing's just unspeakable.
06/24/06
Derivative, adolescent tosh.
06/24/06
Top CriticJust when you thought Aeon Flux couldn't have been any more rubbish, along comes Ultraviolet to prove you wrong.
06/24/06
The narrative is so jumbled that even the actors can't seem to keep track of what exactly is meant to be happening.
03/01/07
This nearly incomprehensible guilty pleasure is actually a great deal of fun.
03/09/06
The adventures of Catwoman, Elektra, Lara Croft and Aeon Flux were positively Homeric compared to this simple-minded Hi-Def tedium...
03/13/06
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.
03/06/06
Undemanding, unengaging, and glaringly unoriginal, Ultraviolet gives real comic books a bad name.
07/02/07
Anyway, we went to Ultraviolet so you won’t have to. It was awful. Next time you go, okay?
03/06/06
a garbled mess of whiz bang and wouldn't-that-be-cool
03/04/06
Crank your brain to its lowest possible idle and you'll still overthink Ultraviolet.
03/08/06
Ultracrappy more like.
03/25/06
The real blood war is between this movie and the slightly better Aeon Flux, which Wimmer plagiarizes as freely as Equilibrium plagiarized Fahrenheit 451 and The Matrix.
03/10/06
Ultraviolet will be studied with great interest in the future - not for its quality or its artistic merit, but rather to discover how a turd like this was made.
03/03/06
Ultraviolet cleaves faithfully to its comic-book genealogy with a plot unobstructed by big words and images that rarely breach two dimensions. Ultrasilly.
03/05/06
Top CriticMilla Jovovich may look hot in spandex and bangs, but if you want rapidly-cut, slow-motioned-for-emphasis spectacle AND story, take in some ESPN highlights or any production by NFL Films. At least you would be getting your money’s worth.
03/25/06
When I saw the trailer for "Ultraviolet," I thought: Well, here's another PG-13 movie with a slender, beautiful heroine in exotic garb in a flick made for fan boys." I was right.
03/08/06
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