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Genres:
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Action /
Fantasy /
Sci-Fi /
Thriller
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Director:
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Kurt Wimmer
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Actors:
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Sebastien Andrieu,
Ida Martin,
David Collier,
Kieran O'Rorke,
Digger Mesch,
Ryan Martin,
Steven Calcote,
Mike Smith,
Clay Cullen,
Jennifer Caputo,
Milla Jovovich,
Cameron Bright,
Nick Chinlund,
William Fichtner,
Ricardo Mamood-Vega
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Duration:
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87 min.
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Rating:
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(4/10)131
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Plot Summary:
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Prepared in the late 21st century, a subculture of humans have emerged who have been modified genetically by a vampire-like ailment (hemophagia), giving them enhanced hurriedness, preposterous starch and fierce intelligence. As they are definite separately from "healthy, healthful" humans, the world is pushed to the rim of worldwide civil war (a war between humans and hemophages) aimed at the destruction of the diseased folk. In the heart of this crossfire is an infected lady, Ultraviolet, who finds herself protecting a nine-year-loved caitiff public schoolmate who has been unmistakable appro... priate for ruin beside the soul government as he is believed to be a presage to humans.
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Ultraviolet
Vampire vixen Milla Jovovich kills people and changes her hair colour a lot in this stylised futuristic action movie from Kurt Wimmer
"One woman against 14 men? It's ridiculous," declares baddie Vicecardinum Ferdinand Daxus (Chinlund). Seeing Milla Jovovich's vampire warrior Violet Song Jat Shariff dispatch 14 men isn't the only ridiculous thing on offer here, however. It's just the tip of the iceberg.
Like Kurt Wimmer's previous film, Equilibrium, Ultraviolet is a daft science-fiction action film that can be blamed on the legacy of the Wachowski brothers. Both Equilibrium and Ultraviolet indulge extensively in the sort of imagery channelled from anime into western live action films by The Matrix, specifically gravity-defying fights in...
Ultraviolet
Gene SeymourIn moviegoing's olden days, something like Ultraviolet would be considered a "quickie": a genre flick that had nothing on its mind except tying together as many motifs as it could from other movies in its genre and making things move quick and dirty.
Maybe if you'd never seen The Matrix, X-Men or Kill Bill (or their respective sequels), you might find Ultraviolet totally original.
Then again, if you'd never seen Matrix or Bill, you might not be inclined to see Ultraviolet in the first place.
Incredibly, writer-director Kurt Wimmer's intent was to take the basic story line of John Cassavetes' 1980 chase thriller, Gloria, and make a comic-book movie out of it.
So, to brace the story of a hard-boiled, pistol-packing woman ou...
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People saying this is 'crap', what were they expecting? Shakespeare? It's a fantastic fun piece of light entertainment. Beautifully directed and very stylish. First rate sci fi fun at it's most accessible and enjoyable
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