Rating of
1/4
"Ultraviolet" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 05/10/12
Ultraviolet is one of those films where you look at the stills and just don't believe it could be as bad as it's reputation suggests; and it does look glorious. In stills. I've described films as plotless in the past, but in this case it's actually an UNDERstatement! All there is to this film is plastic people cartwheeling through a videogame, loosely linked by a little techno-gibberish. Even the action is so sterile and affected that it makes The Matrix look like Raging Bull, and it's so without context that there is no suspense, no drama and therefore no excitement generated at all. The film it most closely resembles is Casshern; a film which, if it weren't for the heart at it's centre, would've quickly become a visually appealing but otherwise tiresome mess. Which is a pretty good summation of Ultraviolet. 1 star for the visuals, plus an extra 1/2 for the line "Are you mental?". And that's only because I find it so difficult to stay angry at Milla...
