Movie Review: Ultraviolet

Yes, I saw this movie.

It was directed by Kurt Wimmer, director of Equilibrium (one of my favorite movies)! It stars Milla Jovovich, who did a pretty good job playing an action-heroine in the Resident Evil movies. The trailers made it look good! Action and guns and swords and stuff... I was ready to pay $2 to see this one.

I really don't know what to say about the movie overall. There wasn't much dialogue, which is a plus, since the only lines were flat, worthless, and worse than predictable (I would have predicted less cheesy lines).

There were two basic fight scenes - in the first, a small army rushes in and surrounds her. She spins around somehow with a sword, and they all fall over dead at once. In the second, they run at her one at a time, and she slashes 'em down.

Either way, half the movie is taken up with those same two fight scenes played over and over again on mildly different sets.

Let's see, bad dialogue, bad fight scenes... those were really the defining points of this movie. It's hard to say too much about the acting, since the actors weren't really given much to work with, but they didn't appear to make much of an effort anyway.

There were some bad CG effects... shaky camera work... all those scenes where the picture was blurred to make up for a lack of effort in shooting... yeah, don't even get close to this one. If you ever feel tempted to check it out, go watch Equilibrium instead. There's a quality film.