I absolutely loved Kurt Wimmer's Equilibrium so last night I decided to watch his follow up, Ultraviolet with Milla Jovovich. It is a similar movie in terms of being a futuristic sci-fi tale with lots of action (including gun-fu martial arts--apparently something Wimmer himself came up with).
While Equilibrium is awesome, Ultraviolet is not. Even for a futuristic sci-fi flick the premise and story in Ultraviolet is just out of control. Even worse...was that the film looks like it was thrown together by a group of junior high kids. There is absolutely no coherent flow to the movie. The scenes are edited together in a fashion that makes no sense...just not in terms of the narrative but in terms basic movie-making 101. There are several transitions between scenes that defy logic. And there are just many head-scratching moments that one normally doesn't have when watching a Hollywood feature film.
Furthermore, the special effects in the film add to the 0ut-of-controlness because they are so absurd in nature. Beside not looking real...most of the CGI scenes are just there to look cool...and they don't.
I'll concede that Jovovich makes for a sexy action female star but damn...it would be nice for her to flex her muscle in some decent movies. (Although to be fair...I haven't seen the Resident Evil movies.)
I'm not sure what director/writer Kurt Wimmer has up his sleeve for his next project but I hope he gets it together.
1 comment:
i liked the resident evil movies, though they're not necessarily the best. the first one is probably better. mostly, though, they're like "alien" and "pitch black" in that there is a small group of people struggling to stay alive against innumerable creatures while in almost total isolation....
"pitch black" by the way, is a terribly stupid movie that i would probably watch again. damn that vin deisel and his alluring charms...
Post a Comment