Customer Reviews
In my top 10.....worst films that is! - By: Ulrich, 15 Dec 2008 
Truly a terrible piece of film making! Utterly nonsensical and, despite all of the action, completely boring. I only managed to get to the end because i don't like forming an opinion on a film that i haven't watched all of.
Began watching with low expectations but i was surprised at just how poor it was.
Definite contender for my list of worst films ever!!
Ultracool, ultraviolet, ultrateriffic - By: J. J. Guzy, 05 Dec 2008 
I am dumbfounded by the number of people who hate this film. I love it!
It has a fantastic opening sequence: we begin inside the cockpit of a futuristic aeroplane out of which fall five huge blue-black shiny balls which line upin the air to crashin sequence through the windows of a sky scraper & out of which spring five futuristic sword wielding ninjas each of whom kills a white coated technician stereotype & who then explode their way through a massive airlock into a vast inner sanctum only to be suddenly massacred by a horde of armoured defenders who appear out of nowhere. An equally unexpected trio of civilians appears. One of these shoots one of the survivors & gets blood on himself & because now infected gets shotin his turn but not before telling us something about blood banks, conspiracy & vampires. We now know we'rein for a treat. We are going to have fantastic images, fantastic technology, & what is really great: a plot.
Have I yet mentioned that before this we had five minutes of the most absolutely stunning Ultraviolet comic book covers! Can some people draw well!!! And so sexy! Hmmmm! And what colour. The whole film just packs style.
O.K. so I love it & can't stop myself from watching it. What don't I like about it? Well there is a boy who isin this pizza sized plastic delivery box that has dimension folding technology (hence 4 foot tall boy can bein two foot long by six inch thick case) that Violet steals from the Bloodbank people after a fantastic sequence of fights & an amazing motorcycle chase. The boy is a bit drippy & his clothes have for me an unpleasant feel to them. This is possibly an effect of the image processing applied to the whole of this film, something akin to "selective blur"in Photoshop which is here used to smooth out the wrinklesin people's faces & makes them a bit anemic looking; appropriate given the subject matter but not always pleasant to look at, especiallyin the case of the boy.
I can't really think of anything else I didn't like. I have read most of the critics here. What do they say? Surprisingly, quite a few of the one star commentators don't actually give reasons for disliking the film other than to say it is bad, pathetic, cheap, acting is poor, story uninteresting, unenjoyable, waste of money, cheesy, a turkey, stupid, ridiculous, terrible. Clearly it drives some people to apoplexy. Others, though no less passionatein their dislike were more cogent or appeared to be.
Many it was clear did not like the "selective blur" effect I referred to above. Actually, though I found it strange, & especially disliked itin the boy, I did not find it objectionable per se. In fact when I think about it with regard to the boy perhaps it is the vulnerability which the effect drew out of him that made me squirm. And let me add that though I did not much care for the boy it did not cause me to go into meltdown. I just wanted to point to something I did not much care for, & it was a tiny something so don't go making a meal of it!
O.K. so many did not like the blur effect. Fine but it surely can't be enough to cause one to fly off the handle. It is certainly a new effect to be seenin the cinema. Perhaps that is what some meant when they said the movie was cheap looking. It is true that the effect was visible & it did make everything feel strange but I would see these as positives. Still "chaqueun a son gout" (each to their own) as my grandmother would say.
Everyone isin love with Miss Jovovich's midrift as they call it, & her way of walking too I guess.
A few thought the fight sequences & motorcycle chase were not up to game playing technology standards. On this I cannot comment other than I thought this stuff amazing.
Many found the story uninteresting or unrealistic, or incoherent, or lacking a plot, the logic of the fight scenes baffled some, for instance, armour shattering like glass, guards rushing into a whirlwind of death, Violet killing other vampires, swords being used when they should have used guns.
In this I am baffled. The plot though straightforward has been given enough twists & turns to keep one guessing, we even have Utraviolet & the boy die on us at one point! Yes, Ultraviolet turns on the vampires that got her to capture the bloodbank's super secret delivery but that is only after they have shown her a fair lack of respect as the mafia might say, lied to her, behaved like pigs & attacked her with maximum prejudice.
The swords vs guns business, hmmm, this isin its origins a Japanese martial arts type of movie so swords are part of the ethos. If we want to be pedantic then this sword play takes placein a scientific research centre &in such a place firearms could cause excessive damage: broken test tubes, smashed computers, that sort of thing.
Guards rushing into a maelstrom of death... well, what are they if not archetypal army clones grown at the institute: fanatics but also Ultraviolet is moving at vampire speed so they'll not have seen much anyway, & if they do see her what do they see? a defenceless girl. Pah.
Why does the guard's armour shatter like glass? Presumably the materials were manufactured to a specification & Violet's actions exceed that specification. No problema. I see it as an exciting glimpse into some future technology.
Perhaps it is the quantity of all this unexplained technology that is causing many people a problem: gravity modifying belt buckles, invisible dimension folding pockets which can be loaded with masses of guns & bullets & are seemingly weightless, a lorry that like the Tardis is bigger on the inside than the outside, emotion sensitive colour changing clothing, lifelike real-time over the internet downloadable holographic projection technology, one time use fold together cell phones that can be got as a cardboard cut-out from a slot machine. There is masses of technology & hardly any of it is explained & why should it be? Anyone who had fallen asleep thirty years ago & woken up today would be completely baffled by much of what we take completely for normal. All that unexplained technologyin the film just gives us an extra sense of beingin the future. I think it is good stuff & like it. Pity others don't.
Some said there was no sense of danger or tension. I disagree. The film is unremitingly tense. Jovovich is ever under threat & we are made to feel it with her.
Costumes change every 5 seconds, well that's the nature of their technology.
One dimensional characters, no character development. Perhaps. But perhaps not (see below). I don't go to watch a movie like this for its character development. Whoin amongst the Marvelled halls has much character?. The Silver Surfer yep, Peter Parker, yep, he & aunt May, as indeed Digby & aunt Augustain Dan Dare, & the brooding Hulk,... but they're never charactersin the sense that a personin a book is a character. Even the inhabitants of Heartbreak Soup & Love & Rockets though much richer as characters have nothing of the depth of the Idiot for instance. In any case is the assertion true? Violet has loads of character. The boy has character. The chief baddie has reasons for doing what he's doing. How different would one say he was from say Bush or Cheney or Rumsfeld or the Chicago Boys? I think we could find enough here to refute the term "one dimensional" unless that is, we judge Bush et al also to be one dimensional, which perhaps they are? Violet has loads of character & the scientist friend of hers with his five or six dimensional labin a lorry has some kind of a life. So no. I don't agree with this criticism.
I think that about covers the range of negative things people wrote on these pages. I forgot the criticism of the "bad" accents. These were English & American & Hungarian I think. The accents did not worry me.
Everyone seems to agree that Violet has a lovely belly button. I think I said that before. It is worth saying again. But then I'm a fan.
What is wrong with this film?? - By: Ms. Natasha K. Hinds, 24 Sep 2008 Milla is my fav & she was amazingin this film as a vampire assassin & a warrior. To be honest, this film has a lot of good special effects, great visual effects like to change colours on her clothes & her hair dependingin the atmosphere of the movie...saving the young boy from evil.
Seriously, why are there so much 1 star ratings just because it's so boring & disappointing...on my opinion, I truly enjoyed this film because it is good for science fiction & horror fans to see.
Well recommended to get this breathtaking film.
A cheap and cheesey film, with no redeeming features. - By: N. Thompson, 06 Sep 2008 I was never a fan of Equilibrium .... but it is nowhere near as bad as this pathetic film from the same movie-maker. Ultraviolet looks cheap, the acting is poor, the story uninteresting & at no point did I enjoy this film. This is cheesey sci-fi & a right turkey of a movie.
I happen to like Milla Jovovich but this film doesnt do her any justice what-so-ever. The 'Resident Evil' films were average at best but still watchable ..... Ultraviolet however, is much worse. Other than some ok fight scenes, this movie doesnt offer anything other than cheap laughs at how stupid this film is. When I say this film is bad .... I mean it is really bad.
The sort of person who'll love this movie, will be the sort of people who thought 'Death Rider' was a good film. If you had enough taste to see how bad that film was .... then Im pretty confident that you will find this film as bad or even worse.
Weird film with great fight scenes - By: Langdon Ulder, 31 Aug 2008 
Ultraviolet is a weird film but weirdin a good way. The plot consists of a group of vampire-like people called hemophages are endangered from becoming extinct due to humans but they might be able to live if they kill a child named Six (Cameron Bright).
A hemophage named Violet (Milla Jovovich) is sent to retrive the case that Six isin but due to her motherly instincts, runs away with Six & the film consists of fights between Violet, humans & hemophages.
The story is confusing but the film is still entertaining & if you like lots of action, then Ultraviolet is a good film choice.
