Movie review: Ultraviolet

[matrixrefugee]

*** out of *****

In the history of bad sci-fi movie scripts, this one is atrocious. I could barely follow the story or the logic to it when I usually have little trouble with strange logic, so I pretty much sat back and watched the action pyrotechnics. Whoa! The helicopter-motorcycle chase, the library fight scene, and the climatic flaming sword fight were worth the cost of rental alone. Also on the plus side, Mila Jovovich managed to make the terrible dialouge they gave her engaging and even a bit convincing: she'd definately pass the "phonebook test". Good movie if your head is in a mess and you just need some fun eyecandy to watch to get your mind off your troubles for a bit.

Also have watched the first episode of the "Hellsing" OVA and I found a fansub of episodes 2 and 3 (though the fansubs were not as much fun. No Crispin Freeman as the voice of Alucard. :: Pouts:: )

Comments

[dark-puck.livejournal.com]

Wait, Ultraviolet had LOGIC? Why didn't anybody tell me!?

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

If it had logic, it certainly wasn't earth logic. I was being charitable.

[dark-puck.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, of course.

I was busy going "Ooooh, shiny!" over the hair colour changes and the motorcycle chase of win and the awesome fight scenes.

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen snippets of it. I couldn't get over her atrocious haircut (for whatever reason characters with bad hair really bother me). It was like they were attempting a Bettie Page look, except done by Moe Howard's stylist. Very odd.

~Ruby

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

There was one bit where you could *see* the wig she was wearing was really some kind of fiber-optic thing, hence the easy color-changes in certain scenes.