A Major Disappointment

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I am at a loss for words.. Direction is pretty nice, screenplay very well and also a good story- line. Acting is thrilling to the extreme.. Hats off to Jovovich. Her iconic performance as Violet will someday enter history books. Its one of her illustrious heroine performances that I will never forget.. Jovovich plays a free spirited heroine who will stop at nothing to protect a child for whom she cares. I cried hysterically towards the end. Also the punch dialogues are executed in a state-of-the-art manner by Jovovich. In the end, we feel that we have been avenged.. A marvellous classic and the best classic action movie I've ever seen. Nowadays astounding action movies like this are rare. Please, do not miss this exotic gem........

I'm not agree with most of the reviews about this movie..i liked it...OK... so the special effects are a bit a bit adventurous in the beginning with the motorcycles scenes...and for such a visual film they were lacking..but the rest of it looks great...the plot i thought revealed itself well...MB some didn't watch enough to get it...personally i don't like films that give it all away in the beginning...its really all about violet ..her journey...and then the story revolves around that...but its entertaining...its not gory like kill bill...which kinda takes away from the realism of the fight scenes ...its not perfect ...but its not bad either...and these days with all the woman superheroes it equates itself OK

Right from the start, I liked this film! First of all, the illustrations at the beginning have the quality of DC 's "Batman - The Dark Knight" by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson. The atmosphere reminds me a bit of "Sin City". The action and martial arts scenes are a combination of "The Matrix" and "Equilibrium" (gunkata)! Obviously, this being a Milla Jovovich film, also means that she frequently changes her outfit. Apparently, all this combined inspired the makers to step up a little on the special effects. In any of the above-mentioned films, that might have looked over the top or even ridiculous, but in this film I liked it! I would easily have given this film a higher mark, if the storyline had been less predictable.

Let me be perfectly clear: Milla Jovovich is hot. Super hot, with the "it" factor of classic movie stars, but her career careens between obscure small films and big-budget, SFX-laden action spectaculars. Her over-the-top performance in The Messenger was my favorite until I saw the very strange horror/SF/Chinese action hybrid Ultraviolet.How do I compare thee to a summer's day, sweet vampire Violet? I am going out on a limb here to say that our future, filled with disease and terrorism, will not be unlike this movie. In more ways than one, of course. While there may not be any blood-sucking mutants with 12-year life spans on the horizon, we have a rocky road to endure.I like the lead character's incredible cynicism. She may be empathetic (with her relationship to the boy clone "Six") but she cannot love. Milla turns one of the most unoriginal and clichéd female characters into a triumph of future noir pessimism. She is an unstoppable killing machine, of course, this being a necessity of SF-hybrids since the advent of The Matrix (which was a myopic stew of much better genre movie clips). Yet Milla has that amazing something despite having to speak such horrendous, trite dialogue. I would love to write her a movie where the darkness that seems to seep from her very being in almost every role can be completely fulfilled. Perhaps a science fictional Lady Macbeth -? Most of all, Ultraviolet is a vapid detonation of atomic digitalia. More pixels per square centimeter than any other "film" in history. In fact, the movie was shot with digital equipment. I could tell this in the poor resolution, the washed-out images, the incredibly fake effects. True, much of the cityscapes and action set pieces were designed to look like video games (since VG fan boys are the target audience for every Milla Jovovich SF project) but when is faux too faux? How long do we have to put up with film school rejects uploading homemade animations to YouTube becoming Hollywood directors-o-the-moment? Wasn't the Michael Bay era enough of a Dark Age for cinema? Oh wait, it's not over ….George Lucas is to blame. He convinced Brian Singer to use a digital camera for Superman Returns, which lost the VFX Oscar in 2007. He has given tens of millions to USC to raise the next generation of "bedhead" auteurs. Great filmmaking is about vision, about storytelling and wonderful characters, not acres of rendering computers. You can put actors in front of green screens for months and end up with an embarrassing, twitching, limbless Darth Vader lost in digital lava. We do not care about such caricatures. Give me Gone With the Wind or Seven Samurai any day. Remember when directors used real extras and not pixel people in service to epic drama? Ultraviolet ricochets crazily off the walls of the vampire myth and the SF-future depicted in eye candy operas like The Matrix. No amount of CGI done cheaply in Hong Kong can save it from a Hammer Horror fate: cinematic obscurity. Milla's bare midriff and slim but sexy haunches aside, there is nothing to recommend this movie except perhaps the rare moment or two where the character is actually resigned to be human, tears and all. We expect this from our tragedies, our comedies, our histories.In the end, the George Lucas attack- of-the-clone-directors will fade into oblivion and we will still want to watch My Darling Clementine just for the shot of Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp kicking back on the front porch and squinting into the dusty western street. For film is about such wonderful cinematic moments, not what sounds good projected on someone's widescreen TV.Milla, can you save us -?