Mila Jovovich stars in this action packed sci fi thriller, and she's wearing what this former model wears the best: Almost nothing.
So, plotline. Not so much. From what I could discern from the innane narration at the beginning and the rest of the movie, it is set into the far future.
Some geeky lab guy finds a virus long forgotten in Eastern Europe (read Transylvania), and plays around with it enough to spread it to a lot of the world. If all the foreshadowing didn't hint at the virus' effects, I'll be blunt. It turns people into vampires.
Not the cloaked, bat-like, sun averse bloodsuckers of old.
No, it turns them into cool, super strong, light sensitive, super fast, anemic super people. With elongated canines.
Didn't they do this in Blade already?
Mila Jovovich's character, Violet, get splashed with blood at the hospital where she works, gets infected, gets captured by the evil doctor-ruled government, loses her baby, drops all that pregnancy weight and learns how to kick butt.
The movie sprawls loosely around a plot including some "super weapon" that the government has, that the meta-vampires want to destroy, that "Ultra" Violet takes.
Sigh.
Lots of shooting, stabbing, chases, fighting and not much else. The dialogue sucks. The action sequences are attention getting, but almost exclusively CGI, to the point of distraction.
The body count is so high that the Terminator would puke.
Even my 14 year old son, with raging hormones, a need to see partially clad women, and a GameBoy enhanced sense of violent action was disappointed.
Blatant stealing from Blade, Bladerunner, Kill Bill, Aeon Flux (a much better choice), Omega Man, etc. etc. And, not in a complimentary way.
I didn't see this in the theatres, I got it from Netflix, but I feel cheated just the same.
Almost a complete waste of two hours.
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Comments: 10
in the end, it was 2 hours that put me into a sedative-like state. not bad, yet, not good. i enjoyed the fact that it was 98% action in the style of the lobby scene in the matrix. and when the computer said she had "many" guns...that made me chuckle a tad.
I've seen both and I prefer Ultraviolet. Though, I must admit, it should've been called "Ultraviolent." The choreography was interesting and the effects were cool.
I gave up expecting something original from Hollywood a while ago. Every ten to twenty years or so they step out on a limb with a Star Wars or Matrix, but otherwise it's ALL rehash.
So what?
I'm disappointed to hear about Aeon Flux though, I kinda wanted to see that.
I say, NO MORE!!!