12 Mar

Ultraviolet - just keep the lights off, please!

Ultraviolet.I’m something of a movie slut — I’ll watch most anything once. I’ve only walked out of two movies in my life: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (because despite my allegience to all things Johnny Depp-related — going all the way back to 21 Jump Street — I was terribly carsick throughout the movie, sympathetic flashbacks to the drug experience the movie was emulating, maybe?) and Bonfire of the Vanities (we were in a small town in West Virginia and the ski lifts were closed because of extreme cold, but it sucked that bad and life is just too short).As a Firefly junkie, a japanimation fan, an aficionado of Final Fantasy, and most of all, a Fifth Element / Milla Jovovich groupie, I just had to see this one. I even liked both Underworld movies, so I’m pretty much a sure thing if there’s a strong female lead and some futuristic stuff. But this … this was one too-long Revlon commercial. Milla showed great range — in haircolor. The story, in brief, goes like this: yawn…. Sorry, where was I? It was like watching someone else play Halo because the dog dragged the other controller outside in the snow . It looks very cool, but unless you are the one riding that motorcycle down the side of a skyscraper, it’s just flat, just CGI. It was awful, yet pretty. OK, so I went with it last night, I had good company and a lovely sushi dinner in my bellly, but if that movie was a date I woke up next to, I’d start gnawing my own arm. Fast.