Ultraviolet

BRAIN: Zed, Locutus, Moll, Big Dave and I took in Ultraviolet last Friday on opening night and here’s a review.

The world has changed dramatically due to en epidemic of disease. People are now more afraid of disease than terrorism. People with disease are shipped off somewhere, quarantined and pretty much forgotten about. A handful of diseased people start a resistance by somehow turning into vampires so the disease won’t kill them. Milla Jovovich is one of the resistances who has no problem killing hundreds of armed guards who look a little like hazmat-ninja-nazis. She has major skills in the ass-kicking department and pretty fun to watch. I didn’t catch how she got that good; they seemed to focus more on how upset she is about loosing a baby before the plague hit. Because of this whole baby thing, she befriends, and pretty much protects this kid the rest of the film. Dialog between these two was very hard to sit through. The kid’s blood holds the key to a cure for the diseased people, but the crooked government doesn’t want it to get out. Oh yeah, the kid is also a clone (or something like that) of the president who looks a little like 80’s pitchman Joe Isuzu with high-tech nose plugs. I mentioned before that Milla was alright and looked great. They had her wear lots of great, tight outfits and I’m pretty sure there is a shot where she has a camel-toe. The gasmask army dudes were really cool and the sets were nice. Half of the special effects had a dreamy, Photoshop filter look (think Sky Captain) that made them a little blurry at times. I did really like that they could hid things in their body. When she wanted to reload her gun, bullets would come out of her wrists and leap into the gun. But talk about a lot of effort put forth behind a movie with no real point... I kept thinking that I had seen this all before, and it was called Aeon Flux, and that sucked too. I’ll give it a D+.