Ultraviolet- I'd rather get sunburn...

[thedelihaus]

The movie Ultraviolet.

The only problem with this 90 minute, 25 second film is it is 90 minutes, 25 seconds too long.

Okay, it was a noble effort of a film- maybe. There was an attempt to emulate the comic book style of the flow, the colors, the pace of an arisian's graphic novel. It couldn't make up for the fact however that this was a misguided and sloppily constructed film.

For a rapid-fire paced film, an ACTION film, I caught myself feeling like I wanted to shut it off and give up on it (even only 15 minutes into it). forcing myself through it, I found many times I was starting to doze off from boredom and growing frustration that was wearing on me, tiring me out- even with the frenetic music pumping through the soundsystem.

I won't get into the villianous main charactor Vicecardinum Ferdinand Daxus too much- the actor, Nick Chinlund, basically played a stereotypical villian to the over-the-top hilt. Think of Joe Izuzu trying to be bad-ass.

And the young boy who played the young charactor of the borderline-pubescent clone of Vicecardinum Ferdinand Daxus by the name of Six... well, I can't tell if he's just another product of the well-marketed youth stars of tomorrow factory, devoid of talent, or if he's a talented lad and the poor script, storyline, and pace of the film left him without a chance in hell to get it right.

and as for actor Sebastien Andrieu, who played the goody/baddy charactor of Nerva- he should stick to modeling Calvin Clein underwear and CK cologne. He's got the hair and the curled-lip snarl for it.

The only redeemable acting was done by a fellow named William Fichtner, who wasn't bad at all- he played the tormented, love-lorn scientist do-gooder Garth. But the fella, he had nothing to work with here. Like a carpenter with a headfull of skill and a handfull of nails, but no hammer. You may know William Fichtner as the voice of Ken Rosenberg- a charactor in the Grand Theft Auto video games. Yes, he's probably better known as a voice in a video game series. Hey just may have promise though. The screentime he had here was too short to really tell...

What about the star, you may ask? Granted, Milla Jovovich is a scrumptious feast for the eyes. And the outfits she's poured into would get any post-modern, urban, artsy-type heterosexual male salivating at the mouth. Her lithe body, perfect makeup, and Betty Page/Cleopatra hairdo meets St. Marks street Manic Panic punky-colored hair keeps a bit of fire, a little sizzle in the scenes.

But even with her serpentine frame sashaying, slicing and dicing through most of those 90 minutes and 25 seconds, it still isn't enough to keep this hot-blooded male interested, nor awake. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...



Your mileage may vary, of course...