Hmm..


Wasitagoodmovie?Notreally.BetterthanAeonFlux,Elektra,Catwoman,etc.

ItwasnicetoseeMillaonscreenagain,butitdefinitelywasn'therbestperformance.Theactionwasgood, buttheplotwasterribleandithadsomeoftheworstspecialeffectsI'veseeninawhile. Itwould'velookedgreatwithafarbiggerbudget.

Idon'treallyknowwhatgradetogiveit.Itwasentertaining,butitwasn'twhatI'dcallagoodmovie. I'mthinking..C-.I<3Millaanditentertainedme.

From a person that loved Equilibrium, I hated this movie. Even if Wimmer could have taken half of the stuff he did in Equilibrium, special effects/acting it would have made this movie better. I wasn't interested in any of the characters, any of the "action" scenes, any of the dialogue. It had a few cool ideas that never made it past that, they were just ideas. I give this movie an F.

opening fight sequence and the bike chase were the best part of this movie. the rest sucked.

C

Bradley Bradley Bradley

Leave the sci-fi to the fans, Loyal - go back to your horror movies...

HA, I've shat out more sci-fi this morning than you've seen in your lifetime.

Newbs.

bradley has a soft spot for the bad-"sci-fi"-films-with-chicks genre.

bradley, do you like Lex?

Big Talk = small action.

You know not what you write...

I saw the first few episodes, but never got into it for the long haul - too TV.

And, sure I suppose I like some of the "bad" sci-fi films, and I can't deny I like "chicks" - but, my all time favorite film remains 2001: A Space Odyssey which has few chicks and ain't bad...

This was easily the worst movie I have seen in a long time. I was not entertained at all and the CGI was the worst ever put on film. Why even try when it looks like a poor nintendo game. I won't give it an F only b/c only the worst of the worst (AI, Solaris) get those kind of grades.

D-

seeing about 20 minutes of this, both before and after 16 Blocks > Milla sure looked great.

but anyway .... what was the deal with the way the picture was shot ............ the seemed to use alt of different looks in the movie. Especiallt that motorcycle chase going on the side of the buildings.

Visually stunning, the musical score was superb and alot of top notch FX and camera work despite having only a 30 million budget, however the story lacks focus and was very poorly executed. To make matters was the audible conversation is very hard to hear and too many vague references that doesnt add to the story. Im not going to lie when I say the direction and dialogue can be directed by someone like Uwe Boll

Visuals and musical score I give an A
Story,dialogue,execution F

Movie overall C

The beginning credits was cool though with the comic book style opening which Im reminded of Flash Gordon

An interesting opening sequence can't save this mess of a film that's for sure. The story lacks cohesion and direction, the effects were terrible, the acting was horrendous and the pacing was abysmal. It isn't the worst sci-fi film, but it sure comes close on a lot of levels. I'm hard pressed to think of worse movie since 2005's Alone in the Dark production-wise. Stylish? Very much so, but with utterly no substance.

D

Jeff, if you have zero monies, why WASTE it on this tripe?

Luv ya, but...

I haven't been to the movies since... Date Movie. I'm saving $$$ and I don't miss seeing more crappy, forgettable movies. It's the hip thing to do.

Two-for-one.

Eight Below was good.

I'm not amused.

I went to the drive in (for FREE!) and saw Pink Panther and Eight Below saturday night....

Here's what's good with the film. William Finchter, Milla Jovovich's ass, some of the CGI shots of the city where the film takes place and a couple of action sequences.

Here's what's bad with the film. Everything else.

D

Well.....i was entertained, the fighting scenes were cool and Milla looked Hot as hell!

The movie is such a HUGE mess, the CGI, the story, the Dialogue and the acting were horrible....but i was entertained, so it did its work

C

It's a measure of how bad this movie was that given the choice of rewatching it or being sexually molested by a flock of condors i'd chose the large beak violation over another visual insult.

It's hard to know where to start with the list of shame, but i'll chose the special effects. I mean this movie is quoted to have a budget of 30m dollars and yet the effects look like they've been torn straight from a late night sci-fi channel soft porn movie, they truly are that bad.

Then there's the script and dialogue. Now normaly i don't mind this in distopian movies but here it just can't be ignored. The whole thing has a rediculous level of seriousness layering everything as the actors spout out lines that seem to have been written by a 5 year old.

And Milla err why?

I never thought i'd find a movie worse then Battlefield Earth but this is it. Hell it doesn't even possess Battlefields ability to make you laugh at the badness of it all.

F

Personally, I would always choose watching some movie over being heavily physically harmed every time.

Not that that changes the suckiness of this movie or anything.

D-

Worst Movie of the Year so far by a mile (Out of the five films I've seen, but I'm sure it'll stay in the bottom five at the very least).

you'd never know i might get a bit of enjoyment out of the condors.

Ultraviolet has little redeeming qualities. About two good action scenes and some good special effects saved the film from being a total failure. Otherwise, it's just really, really bad.

I refuse to believe the same director of Equilibrium directed Ultraviolet.

D+

What good special effects? The effects in this film are on par with A Sound of Thunder with A Sound of Thunder faring slightly worse only because it was a little bit more ambitious. And it wasn't only the effects, the film was frequently out of focus or over soft in places, the digital grading never really matched... ugh.

Unlike Stealth and maybe Aeon Flux's effects (AF relied less on them actually) I will never believe that anybody walked out of the studio screening saying "hey, nice effects". They realized this would (hopefully) be like Resident Evil and be a quick money grab. Unfortunately for them it didn't work.

Look I rented this because... well... I see everything eventually (just on DVD) and I'm not as opposed to action genre flicks as I may seem to be. There is very, very little that Ultraviolet has going for it. The script is weak, the acting is soft, there is not much continuity... the biggest problem with the script is they have this cool disease that they never explore beyond the prologue. The disease is essentially a main character and it's only background dressing! Just how does it work? Because of that can she change her hair? How does all the technology work? Minus all this, it's just the same basic plot as Resident Evil.

I've made fun of bradley's choices (because I did above) but I will acknowledge that while I didn't particularly like Aeon Flux it wasn't necessarily as bad as it was made out to be by the majority, one can enjoy it with some friends and a bucket of popcorn (although AF needed one or two more/better action sequences). Ultraviolet however is that bad.


Apparently he's disowned this movie.

What is it with bad sci-fi/action films starring women? Personally, I don't think it's about the *ladies* as some on this site think (I know Michael thought this way), I just don't get why the writing, effects, etc. is SO WEAK behind ladies actioneers. The exceptions to this either go the way of Kill Bill or the more "serious" (read: grungy, dirty) action films like the Underworld series.

Underworld, which is all around better than this film in EVERY way and was shot for almost half the amount of money.

Fun actioner with a sci-fi bent that is improved by the extended cut. The visuals are still sometimes striking with even the sub-par (Because of budget restraints) having their charms and the action is fun to behold with Milla very convincing throughout. I know I'm in the minority but I really liked this film in all its sometimes cheesy glory.