Ultravioleta
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- johnr33925 de diciembre de 2025Ultraviolet, directed by Kurt Wimmer, is one of those movies I somehow avoided for years—mostly because I genuinely thought it was an ad or promo tie-in for the Ultraviolet digital streaming platform. Turns out, no. It’s a real movie. So I finally watched it and… well, I watched it. Milla Jovovich, this generation’s unquestioned B-movie queen, shows up exactly as advertised. She’s sexy, she’s fun, she knows the assignment, and she’s easily the best thing in the film. If you’ve seen one of her B-movie action roles, you’ve seen this one—but that’s not really a knock. She carries the movie as much as anyone possibly could. The problem is everything else. Ultraviolet feels like it was made during that very specific era when Hollywood decided, “We can do CGI now, so let’s make everything CGI.” Sets, environments, transitions—nothing feels grounded. At the time, maybe the visuals looked impressive. Watching it now, though, it mostly looks like bad green screen work you’d expect from a straight-to-YouTube feature, the kind you’d stumble across at 2 a.m. alongside something called Bikini Bandits. The script doesn’t help. For a good chunk of the movie, I genuinely wasn’t sure what Jovovich’s character even was. Assassin? Super-soldier? Enhanced human? Eventually someone just starts calling her a vampire, and I honestly couldn’t tell if I missed an important explanation earlier or if the movie just casually decided to drop that information midstream. Either way, the storytelling is messy and confusing in a way that doesn’t feel intentional or clever. That’s really the theme here: Ultraviolet wants to be cool, stylish, and futuristic, but never quite earns it. The action is serviceable, the aesthetic is loud, and the ambition is there—but it all lands flat. This is B-movie action that you want to be better than it is, but never quite gets there. Nothing special. Not offensively bad. Just another glossy, forgotten mid-2000s action flick carried almost entirely by Milla Jovovich doing exactly what she always does—and doing it better than the movie deserves.
- Richard18 de octubre de 2025This one had the ingredients for a cult classic: Milla Jovovich as a superhuman rebel, a sleek dystopian world and a virus that turns people into stylish, sword wielding hæmophages. But instead of a genre defining thrill ride, we got a glossy, incoherent mess that feels like a video game cutscene stretched to feature length. The visuals are ambitious, neon-drenched cityscapes, gravity defying stunts, but the CGI hasn’t aged well and the editing chops the action into confusion. The plot tries to juggle bio-politics, maternal instinct and mutant lore, but drops all three. Jovovich looks stunning but seems emotionally checked out and the dialogue is pure exposition soup. There are flashes of brilliance: the concept of self-aware viruses, the idea of a child carrying the cure and the occasional fight choreography that hints at what could’ve been. But it’s buried under style over substance choices and a script that forgot to breathe.
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Ultravioleta was released on 3 de marzo de 2006.
Ultravioleta was directed by Kurt Wimmer.
Ultravioleta has a runtime of 87min.
Ultravioleta was produced by John Baldecchi, Pauline Chan.
A finales del siglo XXI, surge una subcultura de seres humanos con una mutación genética: están dotados de una asombrosa velocidad, una increíble resistencia y una profunda inteligencia. A medida que hay más personas contagiadas, el temor del gobierno aumenta y a los mutantes se les trata como a marginados, se les somete a pruebas espantosas y se les pone en cuarentena. El gobierno ha tomado la determinación de acabar con ellos, pero una mujer está decidida a impedirlo: la ultrabella y ultraletal Violet (Milla Jovovich). Gracias a sus impresionantes técnicas de artes marciales y a su capacidad camaleónica, Violet se convierte en una guerrera solitaria dedicada a proteger a su nueva raza y a vengarse de los que la crearon.
The key characters in Ultravioleta are Violet Song Jat Shariff (Milla Jovovich), Six (Cameron Bright), Ferdinand Daxus (Nick Chinlund).
Ultravioleta is rated 13.
Ultravioleta is a Ciencia ficción, Action, Suspense film.
Ultravioleta has an audience rating of 3 out of 10.
Ultravioleta had a budget of 30 MUS$.
Ultravioleta has made 31,1 MUS$ at the box office.