Sci Fi Sunday: Ultraviolet
Oh my! This has to be one of the worst films ever made, it’s bad on so many levels - bad acting, bad writing, bad effects. It’s so bad its funny, a level that only the truly awful can aspire too.
It’s bad ‘70s SF meets’80s music video by way of Matrix style action that’s been taken to ridiculous extremes. Only William Fichtner gives anything approximating a performance and he seems to have stumbled in from a completely different movie, one not populated by fashion models striking posses.
Milla Jovovich can be pretty good in the right role, but here she doesn’t have a part, she’s just some generic action heroine. The bond between her and the kid that should be at the heart of the movie is nonexistent.
I quite enjoyed Kurt Wimmer’s Equilibrium and had hopes for this, even allowing for the uniformly bad reviews. It sets out to be a comic book film, the opening credits (the films highpoint) make that clear, but even comic inspired films need characters and a story, Wimmer’s film has neither. It’s hard to see where the $30m budget went as the effects would look sub standard in a video game.
The funniest part? After Milla slices and dices her way through a room full of ninja stormtroopers the only blood on display comes from a cut on her hand.
