Ultraviolet [Blu-ray]

Good

Love it or hate it.

Love LOVE this Movie definitely gonna Rewarch It

Okay! So, I like a good well thought out sci-fi action chick flick! It may not be like AEON FLUX, but the plot is good enough to watch again and again! Based on the old Ultraviolet Comic series, Milla Jovovich plays a convincing roll as the vampire heroin Ultraviolet in a high stakes game of madness!

My wife and I both love this movie

Good

It's about a woman who survives a plague, at least in the physical sense. Socially, she and all others like her, are rendered outcasts of society -- hated and discriminated against and everything else by virtue of their condition (and you thought having a pre-existing condition and trying to get health care coverage was rough). Fortunately, she didn't just survive the plague. She was rendered nearly super-human in terms of her strength, explosiveness, agility, and so on. Exactly all the things one would hope for if their station in life consisted in fighting large groups of people at once with nary a moment of damage or distress endured. Her career as a oh, what shall we call it, "activist"? Perhaps "subversive"? It all comes to a crucial juncture when she ends up in the custody of a child who is quite valuable to everyone on both sides of the fight, his own personal health and safety not being of much concern. The film follows their ordeal.The film is amazing to look at and that is by far the outstanding strength it offers. By that I mean the visuals of the experience. The use of color and lighting, the costumes, even the set design are all absolutely excellent. They really did a great job of giving the entire movie its own unique visual texture and identity. No matter what was happening on the screen, I felt like I was looking at something really new and fresh.On the other hand, the story is absurd, uncompelling, and at times incoherent. The dialogue is atrocious, the acting is even worse, and if you can't predict the ending of the film just by seeing the trailer then you need to try harder.All this in a round, you need to take the film on its own terms. Do not watch this movie expecting Marlon Brando caliber acting, or a storyline that makes you cry or question everything like it's a work of existential philosophy. Don't even watch this is you cannot help but to wish and want a storyline that makes sense. Just enjoy it for what it is: a visual feast. I could picture this being really good when paired with alcohol, perhaps muted and with a Wagner opera playing in the background. Or, if you just want a mental auto-pilot good time. And frankly, I'm not sure that the film even originally aspired to be much else. It's good to know your own strengths and weaknesses. Take it for what it is.

Okay, I'm reviewing this movie featuring the phenomenal Miss Jovovich, because (besides the fact that I thought this was ANOTHER killer movie by MJ) but also because of the trivia I read that goes along with this one. I always knew that MJ was bad to the bone, but I had NO IDEA what she had accomplished by this point (and far earlier) in her career: This lady was modelling, acting, dancing, an established fashion designer, and IMMENSELY wealthy before she was even through her teens! And if that ISN'T so extraordinary in and of itself, the fact that Milla --by the time most kids are thinking about starting Jr. High-- had a steel resolve fixed firmly in place that never wavered IS amazing. Throughout her early life, where most child prodigies crash and burn, tangled up within the pressures or vices that come with THAT much fame, she instead, had created an EMPIRE and drove forward to market herself into an astonishingly successful and extremely wealthy individual! Her workout regimen and uncompromising will power alone would have killed a lesser person. It made her a natural at movies like ULTRAVIOLET, and let's not forget the huge popularity that her physical and acting prowess gained her during the epic run of the Resident Evil franchise! By the time she began acting more or less full time, she could speak a dozen languages. Her I.Q. was off the charts. She had already amassed a HUGE fortune whilst most young adults were still struggling to "find themselves" as it were...This futuristic action movie is just one amongst many amazing films displaying her physical talents. BUT, I also found this one interesting because of the maternal side her character shows towards the "special chIld" that's being pursued throughout the movie, proving that she can act as well as perform almost superhuman stunts. (Yes folks, she does most of her own stunts) Though Ultraviolet didn't quite do as well at the box office as some of her more popular classics like, The Fith Element, it was an amazing accomplishment nonetheless!..and the list keeps on growing..wow.