| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Milla Jovovich |
Violet
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| Cameron Bright |
Six
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| Nick Chinlund |
Daxus
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| William Fichtner |
Garth
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| Sebastien Andrieu |
Nerva
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| Ida Martin |
Young Violet
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| Ricardo Mamood |
Song jat Shariff
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| David Collier |
BF-1
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| Kieran O'Rorke |
Detective Cross
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| Digger Mesch |
Detective Endera
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| Ryan Martin |
Detective Breeder
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| Jennifer Caputo |
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Horror; Thriller; Action |
| Director |
Kurt Wimmer |
| Producer |
Lucas Foster; John Baldecchi; Wan Allen |
| Writer |
Kurt Wimmer |
| Studio |
Sony Pictures |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Running Time |
94 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
| IMDb Rating |
3.9 |
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| Plot |
| As an overdose of eye candy, Ultraviolet can be marginally recommended as the second-half of a double-feature with Aeon Flux. Both films are disposable adolescent fantasies featuring a butt-kicking babe (in this case, the svelte and sexy Milla Jovovich) in a dystopian future, and both specialize in the kind of barely-coherent, video-game storytelling that's constantly overwhelmed by an over-abundance of low-budget CGI. Director Kurt Wimmer fared much better with his earlier film Equilibrium, but he's trying for a lively comic-book vibe here (beginning with Hulk-like opening credits) with a digitally enhanced, Tron-like color palette. It largely suits this late-21st century story of a "blood war" between the ultra-violent Violet (Jovovich), member of a vampire-like group of resistance fighters infected with a man-made virus called the Hemophage, and the human Vice Cardinal Daxus (Nick Chinlund), who's determined to eliminate Violet's kind once and for all. Wimmer takes all of this way too seriously, crafting a plot involving Violet's rescue of a human clone boy (Cameron Bright) that's intended as an homage to John Cassevetes' 1980 drama Gloria, but Wimmer's good intentions are mostly lost in a repetitive series of chaotically choreographed fight scenes, mostly involving the tight-bodied Jovovich wiping out dozens of armor-clad enemies. It's all too numbingly hectic to qualify as a satisfying movie, but sci-fi buffs should give it a look anyway, if only to see how locations in Shanghai and Hong Kong contribute to the film's futuristic design.--Jeff Shannon |
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| Product Details |
| Edition |
Unrated, Extended Cut |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
043396153752 |
| Release Date |
6/27/2006 |
| Subtitles |
English; French |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Contains Never Before Seen Extended Cut! UV Protection: Making Ultraviolet Feature Commentary By Milla Jovovich |
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