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Ultraviolet (2006)
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"End Her"
 NUMBERS Box Office: $18,337,122 VHS Rentals: $7,180,000 details... CONSENSUS An incomprehensible and forgettable sci-fi thriller, Untraviolet is inept in every regard. SYNOPSIS Although the artwork in the opening credits would lead you to believe otherwise, writer/director Kurt Wimmer (EQUILIBRIUM) reportedly based ULTRAVIOLET not on a comic book but on John Cassavetes's 1980 film GLORIA, in which a woman must protect a young boy who is carrying some information sought by the Mafia. more... MPAA RATING PG-13, for sequences of violent action throughout, partial nudity and language. 
RELEASE DATES Theatrical: Mar 3, 2006 Video: Jun 27, 2006 RELEASE COMPANY Screen Gems GENRE Action/Adventure, Dramas, Action, Adventure, Civil War, Fantasy, Futuristic, Science-Fiction, Vampires, Illness OFFICIAL SITE • The Official Ultraviolet Site       
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 "This nearly incomprehensible guilty pleasure is actually a great deal of fun." -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, COMBUSTIBLE CELLULOID  "The real blood war is between this movie and the slightly better Aeon Flux, which Wimmer plagiarizes as freely as Equilibrium plagiarized Fahrenheit 451 and The Matrix."-- Peter Canavese, GROUCHO REVIEWS 
"When I saw the trailer for "Ultraviolet," I thought: Well, here's another PG-13 movie with a slender, beautiful heroine in exotic garb in a flick made for fan boys." I was right."-- Linda Cook, QUAD CITY TIMES (DAVENPORT, IA) "Cool martial arts and special effects barely make up for laughably atrocious writing and acting and an obvious sci-fi premise."-- Edward Douglas, COMINGSOON.NET "None of the actors is really any good -- though some have been impressive elsewhere -- but it would be unjust to single them out for failing to rise above the material; what would be remarkable is if anyone could."-- Jeremy C. Fox, PAJIBA 
"Overall, it's a film that can best be thought of as the work of a more cerebral Uwe Boll."-- Ken Hanke, MOUNTAIN XPRESS (ASHEVILLE, NC) "Do the kids today even like all these video-game/manga/sci-fi movies that clutter multiplexes?"-- Kevin N. Laforest, MONTREAL FILM JOURNAL "If you want to break up with your significant other, take him/her to this turd."-- Eric Lurio, GREENWICH VILLAGE GAZETTE "Kurt Wimmer's film epitomizes just about everything wrong with post-Matrix, comic book-/video-game-inspired, Hong Kong-action-style sci-fi thrillers."-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE "The adventures of Catwoman, Elektra, Lara Croft and Aeon Flux were positively Homeric compared to this simple-minded Hi-Def tedium..."-- John Beifuss, COMMERCIAL APPEAL (MEMPHIS, TN) 
"Ultraviolet will be studied with great interest in the future - not for its quality or its artistic merit, but rather to discover how a turd like this was made."-- Kevin Carr, 7M PICTURES "Although it masquerades as a futuristic action-thriller, Ultraviolet functions best as a multi-million dollar commercial for Milla Jovovich's personal trainer."-- Dan Fienberg, ZAP2IT.COM "If you have no problem with an experience that feels like an adrenaline shot administered directly to your brain, then this is the place to start."-- Todd Gilchrist, IGN FILMFORCE "Wimmer is so brazen that he doesn't even bother to pretend that there's an original concept here: all his ideas are borrowed from other movies that borrowed from other movies that borrowed from The Matrix, and he doesn't care who knows it."-- MaryAnn Johanson, FLICK FILOSOPHER "Flat-out awful in almost every respect, Ultraviolet will hopefully drive the final nail in the coffin of the sci-fi/action-babe genre."-- Timothy Knight, REEL.COM "Ultraviolet wants desperately to be a provocative, high-concept action thriller. It is apparently trying to say something about fear and terrorism, paranoia and racism. But it looks more like a shampoo commercial."-- Christy Lemire, ASSOCIATED PRESS "Not Even The Lovely And Seductive Milla Can Save This One. It Is Truly Excrement On Celluloid."-- Fiore Mastracci, OUTTAKES WITH FIORE "Ultraviolet is all second act. There is no beginning to the story and no end; it's all middle. A non-sensical, hard to follow assemblage of action, completely devoid of any context."-- Mike McGranaghan, AISLE SEAT "The bad guys stride through spotless corriders in buildings where weirdly calm disembodied female voices say things like "Switching to emergency backup lighting system." If only I could have found the button for the emergency back-up better movie system."-- Nell Minow, MOVIE MOM AT YAHOO! MOVIES 
"Anyway, we went to Ultraviolet so you won�t have to. It was awful. Next time you go, okay?"-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
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Avg. Rating: 2/10
"Uwe Boll would be proud of this movie. It's pretentious and oh-so-serious. The tone of the movie is one of high art, but it stinks like a landfill."-- James Berardinelli, REELVIEWS "Crank your brain to its lowest possible idle and you'll still overthink Ultraviolet."-- Scott Brown, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY "Ultraviolet cleaves faithfully to its comic-book genealogy with a plot unobstructed by big words and images that rarely breach two dimensions. Ultrasilly."-- Jeannette Catsoulis, NEW YORK TIMES "Pic is hermetically sealed in a synthetic wrapping that's so total -- Sony's top-flight high-def cameras, visibly low-budget CG work, exceptionally hackneyed and imitative action and dialogue --that it arrives a nearly lifeless film."-- Robert Koehler, VARIETY 
"Ultrastupid, ultra-incoherent, ultrasilly -- and way, way ultraboring."-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST "Wimmer has created no logical framework for flashy, ultraviolent and frankly cheesy sequences."-- Jack Mathews, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS "The special effects simply thrust Ultraviolet in an Xbox 360 for action set-pieces that are kinetic and colorful but surprisingly unexciting. Do we really care if she dies when she�s just going to be regenerated anyway?"-- John Monaghan, DETROIT FREE PRESS ( More... ) "It's not bad enough to be funny, but it's not without its moments. Most of those come when Jovovich, not the best with a catch-phrase, answers some challenge with a put-down she should have practiced more in between personal trainer sessions."-- Roger Moore, ORLANDO SENTINEL
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