Ultraviolet (2006) Synopsis:
Set in the late 21st century, a subculture of humans have emerged who have been modified genetically by a vampire-like disease (Hemophagia), giving them enhanced speed, incredible stamina and acute intelligence, and as they are set apart from "normal" and "healthy" humans, the world is pushed to the brink of worldwide civil war (a war between humans and hemophages) aimed at the destruction of the "diseased" population. In the middle of this crossed-fire is - an infected woman - Ultraviolet (Jovovich), who finds herself protecting a nine-year-old boy who has been marked for death by the human government as he is believed to be a threat to humans.
Ultraviolet (2006) Movie Review:
In the near future, a new subspecies of human called hemophages, a vampire-like race, are fighting for their very existence as human leader Vicecardinum Daxus (Chinlund) seeks to develop a virus that would wipe them out. The hemophages are fighting back however but when their most lethal weapon Violet (Jovovich) steals a package from the humans she is shocked to find it contains a child known only as Six (Bright), who is the carrier for the virus.
After making an impact with ‘Equilibrium’ in 2002, Kurt Wimmer became a cult director and the new hope for low budget science fiction but ‘Ultraviolet’ shatters all that expectation.
While ‘Equilibrium’ didn’t have the most original of plots, it was the ‘Gun-Kata’ martial art and the performance of Christian Bale that made the film a cult favourite in the Sci-Fi genre. This put writer/director Kurt Wimmer on the radar and when he announced that his next project would cross science fiction and vampires, interest was instantly sparks but it turns out that Wimmer might just be a cinematic one-hit-wonder.
‘Ultraviolet’ is a complete mess and something that you would associate with the worst director working in Hollywood at the moment, Uwe Boll, than the man who brought us ‘Gun-Kata’. The dialogue is laughable, the storyline is clichéd and unintelligible and the visual effects that look more at home in a video game.
Setting out to make an original comic book movie, Wimmer and his creative team just totally get it wrong. While we know that the beautiful Milla Jovovich can handle action and she shows again that she is one of the best female stars to handle a gun or a sword but she is just an amalgamation of the parts she has played before. Nick Chinlund plays Vicecardinum Daxus like he is in pantomime, hamming it up for the camera and proving that he is a very one dimensional actor. William Fichtner is completely underused as Garth, the hemophage gadget man. Cameron Bright plays his usual weird boy who is the subject of scientific experiences and still doesn’t impress.
‘Ultraviolet’ has a few good science fictions ideas, such as the weapon storage system and the mutated vampire virus but the rest is an incomprehensible mess. As a science fiction film it just doesn’t work and could be one of the worst examples to ever grace the genre. It looks like Uwe Boll has a new best friend and his name is Kurt Wimmer.
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Ultraviolet (2006) review written by: Jamie Kelwick
7th September, 2008 
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