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Ultra-dissapointment
By Sparky | March 4, 2006
Mr. Jason joined me today for a cinema experience: Ultraviolet. With Milla Jovovich in it I was expecting an action thriller, and unfortunately I got not merely an ultra-colorful and fun action flick: I got a horrible movie.
The action was beautiful and creative, the color palette was bright and happy, the visual effects were unique and very well done. Where the movie fell down was where they tried to make it touching, tried to make it a love story. About an hour into it there is a scene that takes place on a merry-go-round that is simply ridiculous. Milla and her on screen pre-pubescent counterpart talk, and it gets all mushy. It was so bad that people were loudly laughing in the theater.
It’s really sad because any editor with an ounce of talent could have taken the raw footage from the movie and made a pretty kick-ass 4/5 stars movie - but instead they used all the wrong non-action footage and got it a mere 1/5 stars. Sadly William Yeh (the editor) needs to be shot to make me feel better now.
Oh well - at least Jason and I had fun shopping for his new computer (to replace the one that was stolen by the corporate spies) and at least we got a good meal out of the evening if not a good movie.
Topics: Food, Friends, Video |
March 5th, 2006 at 4:36 am
I saw it this weekend too. It was one of the worst movies I have ever endured! The first 10 minutes showed tons of promise, cool effects, etc…Then? What happened? I guess the movie budget was blown because they even stopped showing many of the fight scenes. Stay away from this one, I rate it 1/10.