ULTRAVIOLET
Theater: Movies Palace 6 Theaters, Elizabethtown, Kentucky
So, Kurt Wimmer is completely on my shit-list now.
He made a great movie (Equilibrium) and then he makes this, Ultraviolet. If Equilibrium were his novel, this is his comic book. But unfortunately for all of us, it's the comic book you find in a gutter after a kid who spent his allowance on it throws it away in disgust, whereas his novel would be preserved in a library of other works as great as it.
The story seems (and is) simple, but it's told so disjointed that you're not really sure what's going on. Jovovich plays Violet, a synthetic vampire due to government testing on her that made her faster, stronger, and ... immune to sunlight?
And there's a defenseless kid in the story, like there always is, and a mysterious helper, and an oppressive government, and the head of the government, and a paranoid society.
There's more backstory to the movie, but it never gets explained. And when it comes to the action, it's just bad. The climactic fight is with swords (cool) in the dark (stupid) ... so even when they light the swords on fire (again, cool) they still manage to make it painful to watch.
The visuals are highly stylized, but the effect is much less Sin City and much more we-ran-out-of-special-effects-money-so-lets-make-it-all-look-like-crap.
Is this better than Milla doing a third Resident Evil? Honestly, I can't answer that question. And that's what makes me so scared.
Kurt, please let your next movie (if you get the chance to make another one after this) more like your first.
Sincerely,
Me
See it if - you have a thing for Milla (which I never did)
Rent it if - you like watching bright colors move on a screen in your living room.
So, Kurt Wimmer is completely on my shit-list now.
He made a great movie (Equilibrium) and then he makes this, Ultraviolet. If Equilibrium were his novel, this is his comic book. But unfortunately for all of us, it's the comic book you find in a gutter after a kid who spent his allowance on it throws it away in disgust, whereas his novel would be preserved in a library of other works as great as it.
The story seems (and is) simple, but it's told so disjointed that you're not really sure what's going on. Jovovich plays Violet, a synthetic vampire due to government testing on her that made her faster, stronger, and ... immune to sunlight?
And there's a defenseless kid in the story, like there always is, and a mysterious helper, and an oppressive government, and the head of the government, and a paranoid society.
There's more backstory to the movie, but it never gets explained. And when it comes to the action, it's just bad. The climactic fight is with swords (cool) in the dark (stupid) ... so even when they light the swords on fire (again, cool) they still manage to make it painful to watch.
The visuals are highly stylized, but the effect is much less Sin City and much more we-ran-out-of-special-effects-money-so-lets-make-it-all-look-like-crap.
Is this better than Milla doing a third Resident Evil? Honestly, I can't answer that question. And that's what makes me so scared.
Kurt, please let your next movie (if you get the chance to make another one after this) more like your first.
Sincerely,
Me
See it if - you have a thing for Milla (which I never did)
Rent it if - you like watching bright colors move on a screen in your living room.
posted by Violent Traveler at 6:26 PM
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