Ultraviolet is one of those movies that should appeal to genre fans (sci-fi, action, horror), but instead, fails miserably.
It borrows heavily from movies such as The Matrix, Equilibrium, Kill Bill, Aeon Flux and even Sin City, but fails to capture anything that made those movies good. Instead of taking a deeper view of what was engaging about these movies, it jams all the aspects of "Wow, that looked cool!" together in a mish-mash that simply does not work.
The story is simplistic and uninspired; the dialog seems to have been written by an eight year old; and the special effects, while passable in some places, are simply put together in a hodge-podge mess. Ultraviolet embodies why movies that are created foremost as a showcase for SFX and visual extravaganzas, with the plot and script tacked on afterward, invariably fall short.
Simply put, this movie is awful. Save yourself the aggravation, and watch something like Equilibrium instead.
It borrows heavily from movies such as The Matrix, Equilibrium, Kill Bill, Aeon Flux and even Sin City, but fails to capture anything that made those movies good. Instead of taking a deeper view of what was engaging about these movies, it jams all the aspects of "Wow, that looked cool!" together in a mish-mash that simply does not work.
The story is simplistic and uninspired; the dialog seems to have been written by an eight year old; and the special effects, while passable in some places, are simply put together in a hodge-podge mess. Ultraviolet embodies why movies that are created foremost as a showcase for SFX and visual extravaganzas, with the plot and script tacked on afterward, invariably fall short.
Simply put, this movie is awful. Save yourself the aggravation, and watch something like Equilibrium instead.
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