Ultraviolet

LA Weekly Chuck 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.

Los Angeles Times Gene 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.

Film Threat Stina Chyn

Although it looks cool, appearances aren’t everything.

Premiere Jessica 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.

The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

Mr. Wimmer is more concerned with fetishizing his heroine and patronizing his audience. The verdict? Ultrasilly.

Chicago Reader J.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.

Village Voice Rob Nelson

Seems this is yet another puddle of futuristic sludge for us to blame on John Cassavetes.

ReelViews James 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.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

A film to be enjoyed only by science-fiction movie completists and middle school boys with extreme cases of attention deficit disorder.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha 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.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Ultraviolet, unscreened for critics, is unfit for consumption.

TV Guide Maitland 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.

Boston Globe Jonathan 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.

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

The latest entry in the "This film is so bad we're not screening it for critics" genre.

Variety Robert 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.

Empire James Dyer

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

Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown

Ultraviolet, warns someone, ''Don't overthink it.'' Sage advice for anyone masochistic enough to watch this pile of poorly pixelated vampire poo.

Austin Chronicle Kimberley 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.

New York Post Lou 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.