ULTRAVIOLET (2006)

ULTRAVIOLET (2006)

Tagline: First, they made her a weapon. That was their next-to-deadliest mistake. Now, they've made her a target...

(Sci-fi, Action, Weapons Popping Out Of Nowhere) [PG-13]

Starring Milla Jovovich as Violet Song, this is a pretty rare situation where we have a comic book movie based on a comic that didn’t actually exist when the movie was made. Written and directed by Kurt Wimmer who also wrote EQUILIBRIUM (which was fantastic) but also wrote LAW ABIDING CITIZEN which was pretty freakin bad. The movie set in 2076 is basically about a disease that ends up getting out and affecting a huge portion of the world turning them into hæmophage (super-powered vampires). The haemophages are being slowly wiped out by humans, only the war can’t be completely won until the humans launch a new weapon curing all haemophages, via the blood of a boy named Six (played by Cameron Bright).

This movie is pretty freakin fast and furious, with tons of action pretty much from the time it starts to the time it ends. If there was a true comic book-type movie before the MCU started, it was this thing. I mean we have motorcycles driving up buildings, digitally printed weapons that are usable in an instant (kinda like in THE ORVILLE), and impossibly fast fight scenes with physics-insulting sequences that don’t make any sense at all. It’s all pretty freaking epic.

 Aside from the action sequences, there are some pretty decent performances in this movie delivered by both Nick Chinland (known for TRAINING DAY) who plays Ferdinand Daxus, and Sebastien Andrieu, who plays Nerva. Milla Jovovich is strong as Violet, in this but plays it a lot like she played Alice in THE RESIDENT EVIL series, so for fans, they are almost the same character. Only Violet could kill 100 Alices before Alice even got off a shot. For me, the settings and CGI were all fine for the year the movie came out and the budget given, but I can see where some of the complaints came from.

Outside of the aesthetic the movie itself is pretty compelling and introduced a world I would have liked to have seen quite a bit more of. To show how much I like this thing, I still watch it at least twice a year. To give it a fair rating though, it’s going to land at a 5 out of 7. Admittedly if the effects had been better and the action sequences a bit more credible this might have made more money at the box office, but it would have made it just as lame as a forgotten film. Instead, this movie still gets brought up in the conversation both good and bad. Apparently, Milla felt a little different about it than I did because she ended up not being too crazy about the final cut.

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