UltraViolet

Nice to watch on a boring winter weekend, lot's of action.

The first act alone is worth buying this movie: Violet making her escape after stealing "The Weapon." It's a great extended chase across town on foot, motorcycle, and cars moving through, between, and across the buildings and streets of down town Shanghai (although in the movie it's an unnamed fictional town). The action scenes throughout the movie are artfully set against a great mix of techno and trance music that matches the ebbs and flows of the action. This, along with the fighting choreography being based on several forms of martial arts gives the whole experience a Matrix-like feel.The second act runs a little slow (as they often do), explaining details of the backstory that weren't covered earlier and setting up conflicts that take place in the last third of the movie. Bear with it and it picks up again with more action, culminating in a satisfying ending.I really can't decide if the CGI in this is terrible or exactly as was planned. Parts of it are not very realistic - in most of the long shots the vehicles look like they're made of plastic. But being that this movie is based on a comic, it may have been intentional for parts to have a semi-realistic look, because the graphics in the near and close-up shots are perfectly convincing, even for a movie over ten years old.For fans of extra content, the behind-the-scenes chapters are about an hour, covering the making of all aspects of the film, interspersed with comments made by the cast and crew both on and off the set.

Okay, I'm reviewing this movie featuring the phenomenal Miss Jovovich, because (besides the fact that I thought this was ANOTHER killer movie by MJ) but also because of the trivia I read that goes along with this one. I always knew that MJ was bad to the bone, but I had NO IDEA what she had accomplished by this point (and far earlier) in her career: This lady was modelling, acting, dancing, an established fashion designer, and IMMENSELY wealthy before she was even through her teens! And if that ISN'T so extraordinary in and of itself, the fact that Milla --by the time most kids are thinking about starting Jr. High-- had a steel resolve fixed firmly in place that never wavered IS amazing. Throughout her early life, where most child prodigies crash and burn, tangled up within the pressures or vices that come with THAT much fame, she instead, had created an EMPIRE and drove forward to market herself into an astonishingly successful and extremely wealthy individual! Her workout regimen and uncompromising will power alone would have killed a lesser person. It made her a natural at movies like ULTRAVIOLET, and let's not forget the huge popularity that her physical and acting prowess gained her during the epic run of the Resident Evil franchise! By the time she began acting more or less full time, she could speak a dozen languages. Her I.Q. was off the charts. She had already amassed a HUGE fortune whilst most young adults were still struggling to "find themselves" as it were...This futuristic action movie is just one amongst many amazing films displaying her physical talents. BUT, I also found this one interesting because of the maternal side her character shows towards the "special chIld" that's being pursued throughout the movie, proving that she can act as well as perform almost superhuman stunts. (Yes folks, she does most of her own stunts) Though Ultraviolet didn't quite do as well at the box office as some of her more popular classics like, The Fith Element, it was an amazing accomplishment nonetheless!..and the list keeps on growing..wow.

It's about a woman who survives a plague, at least in the physical sense. Socially, she and all others like her, are rendered outcasts of society -- hated and discriminated against and everything else by virtue of their condition (and you thought having a pre-existing condition and trying to get health care coverage was rough). Fortunately, she didn't just survive the plague. She was rendered nearly super-human in terms of her strength, explosiveness, agility, and so on. Exactly all the things one would hope for if their station in life consisted in fighting large groups of people at once with nary a moment of damage or distress endured. Her career as a oh, what shall we call it, "activist"? Perhaps "subversive"? It all comes to a crucial juncture when she ends up in the custody of a child who is quite valuable to everyone on both sides of the fight, his own personal health and safety not being of much concern. The film follows their ordeal.The film is amazing to look at and that is by far the outstanding strength it offers. By that I mean the visuals of the experience. The use of color and lighting, the costumes, even the set design are all absolutely excellent. They really did a great job of giving the entire movie its own unique visual texture and identity. No matter what was happening on the screen, I felt like I was looking at something really new and fresh.On the other hand, the story is absurd, uncompelling, and at times incoherent. The dialogue is atrocious, the acting is even worse, and if you can't predict the ending of the film just by seeing the trailer then you need to try harder.All this in a round, you need to take the film on its own terms. Do not watch this movie expecting Marlon Brando caliber acting, or a storyline that makes you cry or question everything like it's a work of existential philosophy. Don't even watch this is you cannot help but to wish and want a storyline that makes sense. Just enjoy it for what it is: a visual feast. I could picture this being really good when paired with alcohol, perhaps muted and with a Wagner opera playing in the background. Or, if you just want a mental auto-pilot good time. And frankly, I'm not sure that the film even originally aspired to be much else. It's good to know your own strengths and weaknesses. Take it for what it is.

Fastastica imagen y con muchos extras y buen colorido.Extraordinaria.

Al ser una pelicula con tantos efectos hechos por ordenador esperaba una calidad de imagen mejor, supera a la del DVD pero es mejorable, en cuanto al sonido muy bueno

La película esta genial.Sobre todo por la actriz y los efectos especiales.La banda sonora es muy buena. Es una película oara disfrutar.No tan genial el Blu Ray, de 2* mano. Dos veces solicitado, 2 veces mismas condiciones. Caratula quemada dedos en el disco...

Confirmo que está completamente en Castellano (Español de España)Sonido tanto en PCM 5.1 como en DTS 5.1También trae los subtitulos en Castellano.Audios:Italiano y Castellano PCM 5.1Italiano, Castellano e Ingles DTS 5.1Subtitulos: Italiano, Inglés, Portugués y Castellano

Arrived on time, speedy cgi sci fi with Milla, very manga ish 😀