This is easily one of the worst movies I've seen in years, and I watch a lot of really bad movies (and liked both Aeon Flux and Chronicles of Riddick, so it's not like I have refined taste). Initial reviews said the main problem with this CGI-heavy sci-fi thriller was that it was all action, all the time, with no break for character development or plotting. While I agree that the movie never really delves into any character development or plotting, I find the notion that it is packed to the gills with action to be laughable. Aside from what action there is being dull CGI video game effects, most of the movie is nothing but scenes of Milla Jovovich standing in front of a hundred armed guys, then you cut to the inside of some room, cue some fight scene sound effects, then show Milla walking through the door with a bunch of dead guys lying behind her.

The plot is the usual "skinny chick is a genetically enhanced bad-ass so we can justify having a skinny chick throw people around and perform outrageous feats of physical prowess." This time around, the genetic enhancement comes courtesy of a disease that makes you grow vampire teeth for some reason. Milla's character ends up protecting a kid who looks like Will Wheaton, and everything about the movie is awful. Not so awful it's funny, but so awful it's boring. It's rare that I root for a film to end as enthusiastically as I did for this one. I mean, I watch Jess Franco films, for crying out loud.

Usually, no matter how wretched a film like this is, someone will say it's good because it had "cool visuals," but we don't even get that. The CGI futurescapes are boring and predictable, and much of the CGI rendering is below what you'd expect from a cheap video game. When your film is going to rely heavily on CGI, you should make sure it doesn't look as awful as it does here.

This movie came out as part of the glut of "bad-ass chick" movies that included Aeon Flux, Bloodrayne, Tamara, and Underworld: Evolution. All I can say about Ultraviolet at this point is that it made me realize how good Bloodrayne actually was.