Ultraviolet Review
by [email protected] (dnb AT dca DOT net)March 9th, 2006
ULTRAVIOLET
A film review by David N. Butterworth
Copyright 2006 David N. Butterworth
*1/2 (out of ****)
It's Milla time! Correct me if I'm wrong but I swear I've seen "Ultraviolet" more than once before. I mean, a film in which L'Oreal's international spokesmodel turned action figure Milla Jovovich butt kicks her way through a 21st Century cityscape riddled by diseased denizens and infectious ingrates? Didn't I *just* see this? Well maybe. But "Ultraviolet," hard as it may be to believe, has even less going for it than "Resident Evil: Apocalypse," that 2004 turkey in which Milla butt kicked her way through a lame sequel to 2002's "Resident Evil," in which Milla butt kicked her way through a tired treatise featuring secret experiments, deadly viruses, and fatal mistakes. Speaking of fatal mistakes, "Ultraviolet" doesn't know whether it's a comic book (from its opening credits) or a video game (to its look and feel thereafter). It's certainly not a film per se, much less an "entertainment." It's just a lot of meaningless action sequences masquerading as fun, a loud, messy affair in which the sightly Violet (V to her friends) depletes her foes (mostly clean human government goons out to rid the world of V and her unclean, genetically- modified "hemophages" through a living, breathing time bomb known as Six). Writer cum so-called director Kurt Wimmer, like French director Luc Besson, sure loves his subject, shooting Milla from every conceivable angle, outfitting her in sleek black bodysuits, offering us juicy close-ups as she dons amber-colored lenses one minute and doffs magenta-colored specs the next. Nine times out of ten I'll pick a bad movie with a scantily-clad heroine over a bad movie with a fully- dressed hero but that still doesn't make "Ultraviolet" any good.
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