Ultraviolet
Screen Gems | Release Date: March 3, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
18
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
3
Negative:
16
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
40
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
For this violent yet gore-free film, clearly designed for horny teenaged video game wizards, writer-director Kurt Wimmer stages a succession of fight sequences that pit V against helmeted thugs who appear to have raided the Star Wars storm trooper costume closet. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesGene Seymour
To her credit, Jovovich carries out her action-hero duties with swagger and conviction that never get out of control. Clearly, she's expecting a franchise out of this. Read full review
40
Film ThreatStina Chyn
Although it looks cool, appearances aren’t everything. Read full review
38
PremiereJessica Letkemann
Amid every action cliche in the book, outmoded stereotypes, and a plot derivative of every futuristic drama made in the last fifteen years, Ultraviolet comes off as nothing more than a pale copy of better, more inventive films. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
Mr. Wimmer is more concerned with fetishizing his heroine and patronizing his audience. The verdict? Ultrasilly. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Director Kurt Wimmer has an eye for jackboot chic (Equilibrium), and the images here have been digitally polished so that the characters' skin is smoother than porcelain. It's a cool effect--I spent most of this interminable actioner wondering if one could bounce a quarter off Jovovich's bare midriff. Read full review
30
Village VoiceRob Nelson
Seems this is yet another puddle of futuristic sludge for us to blame on John Cassavetes. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Ultraviolet, unscreened for critics, is unfit for consumption. Read full review
25
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
An all-but-incoherent mess whose main components are palpably fake-looking CGI effects, video-game-style action sequences and Milla Jovovich's admirably taut abdomen, Kurt Wimmer's film epitomizes just about everything wrong with post-MATRIX, comic book-/video-game-inspired, Hong Kong-action-style sci-fi thrillers. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeJonathan Perry
Jovovich is bad, and not in a good way. She turns in an epically expressionless performance (maybe she thought it was one of her modeling gigs?) but she sure looks great. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
This is another one of those pointless action superhero movies that unfolds like a video game in which the viewer is unable to participate. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
A film to be enjoyed only by science-fiction movie completists and middle school boys with extreme cases of attention deficit disorder. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
Underdeveloped antagonist Nick Chinlund sums up the entire film during one of his rants about Jovovich's latest casual, offhand slaughter: "One woman against 14 men! It's ridiculous!" Well, yeah. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
The latest entry in the "This film is so bad we're not screening it for critics" genre. Read full review
20
VarietyRobert Koehler
Pic is hermetically sealed in a synthetic wrapping that's so total -- Sony's top-flight high-def cameras, visibly low-budget CG work, exceptionally hackneyed and imitative action and dialogue --that it arrives a nearly lifeless film. Read full review
20
EmpireJames Dyer
Unengaging, uninspired and unwatchable. A criminal waste of time and talent. Read full review
16
Entertainment WeeklyScott Brown
Ultraviolet, warns someone, ''Don't overthink it.'' Sage advice for anyone masochistic enough to watch this pile of poorly pixelated vampire poo. Read full review
0
New York PostLou Lumenick
A cut-rate ripoff of "Aeon Flux" with Milla Jovovich as a butt-kicking futuristic heroine in a midriff-baring bodysuit, is ultrastupid, ultra-incoherent, ultrasilly - and way, way ultraboring. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
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. Read full review
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