The most receptive audience will mainly be enlightened to know that you can make a movie as thoroughly unprofessional as this one and still get it released in 3,000 theaters.

| Aug 27, 2009

Despite the expository speeches draped over this like birthday bunting, the story remains largely incomprehensible.

| Mar 6, 2007

Some spectacular action, though obviously digital: free of risk, free of drama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 24, 2006

Derivative, adolescent tosh.

| Jun 24, 2006

Unengaging, uninspired and unwatchable. A criminal waste of time and talent.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 24, 2006

The only redeeming feature is a production design so outrageously mad that you will genuinely have no idea what you're watching for more than half the time.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 6, 2006

Ultra-dumb.

| Original Score: D | Mar 25, 2006

Jovovich, who's shown sensitivity in her dramatic work, looks spectacularly bored as she power-kicks her way through one bloody pile-up after another. That boredom, like the mystery virus at the center of the film, is contagious.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Mar 25, 2006

Wimmer borrows all his best ideas from other movies...then spackles over his half-assed plot with a shiny aesthetic.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Mar 8, 2006

Crank your brain to its lowest possible idle and you'll still overthink Ultraviolet.

| Original Score: D- | Mar 8, 2006

Wimmer ain't no Cassavetes.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 6, 2006

The Yule log was way more entertaining.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 6, 2006

The bad guys stride through spotless corriders in buildings where weirdly calm disembodied female voices say things like "Switching to emergency backup lighting system." If only I could have found the button for the emergency back-up better movie system.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Mar 5, 2006

Whether Six is a blessing or a boon to mutants or humans is one of the many things that are not clearly explained through all the flying bodies, flashing steel and grinding metal.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 5, 2006

Ultrastupid, ultra-incoherent, ultrasilly -- and way, way ultraboring.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Mar 5, 2006

Ultraviolet cleaves faithfully to its comic-book genealogy with a plot unobstructed by big words and images that rarely breach two dimensions. Ultrasilly.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 5, 2006

Quite frankly, Jovovich should never let Wimmer do her any favors again and someone from the director's office should send Cassavetes' estate a letter of apology.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Mar 4, 2006

The special effects simply thrust Ultraviolet in an Xbox 360 for action set-pieces that are kinetic and colorful but surprisingly unexciting. Do we really care if she dies when she's just going to be regenerated anyway?

| Mar 3, 2006

Ultraviolet wants desperately to be a provocative, high-concept action thriller. It is apparently trying to say something about fear and terrorism, paranoia and racism. But it looks more like a shampoo commercial.

Full Review | Mar 3, 2006

The tale, beginning with narrated flashbacks that make it curiously seem like a sequel, essentially is an excuse for a seemingly endless series of ultraviolet, uh, ultraviolent, action scenes.

Full Review | Mar 3, 2006