Ultraviolet [Blu-ray]

Director: Kurt Wimmer Kurt Wimmer

Overview

In the late 21st a disease called Hemophagia has genetically modified nearly an entire race of people, leaving them with such enhanced speed, intelligence, and strength that they resemble vampires in nearly every way. Fear begins to breed within the power elite as the disease continues to spread and those infected prove to be truly superhuman, and now, a civil war is brewing between uninfected humans and those altered by Hemophagia. Caught dead in the center of it is an infected woman called Violet (Milla Jovovich), who is bent on vengeance and has little left to lose. Provoked beyond reason by powers that will not rest until she and her people are dead, she will become everything her persecutors feared her to be.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/27/2006
UPC:	0043396153783
Original Release:	2006
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMT
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:27:00
Sales rank:	23,715

Special Features

Closed Caption;Seamless menu navigation; "UV Protection:" Making of Ultraviolet; Commentary Milla Jovovich

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Milla Jovovich	Violet
Cameron Bright	Six
Nick Chinlund	Daxus
William Fichtner	Garth
Sebastien Andrieu	Nerva
Ida Martin	Young Violet,Detective Breeder
David Collier	BF-1
Kieran O'Rorke	Detective Cross
Digger Mesch	Detective Endera
Steven Calcote	Young Daxus
Ricardo Mamood	Violet's Husband
Mike Smith	Hospital Hemophage
Clay Cullen	Rebel Hemophage
Jennifer Caputo	Elizabeth P. Watkins
Jack Murphy	Chief of Staff
Diego Swing	Daxus Aide 1
Ted Thomas	Daxus Aide 2,Daxus Aide 2
Abraham Boyd	L.L.D.D. Guard
Matthew Sturgess	Medical Tech 1
Alexander Key	Medical Tech 2
Peter Spurrier	L.L.D.D. Chief of Research
Russell Wait	Combat Reserve Doctor
Youlia Galenko	Courier XPD-154
Luke Jackson	Archministry Computer Tech
Christopher Garner	Luthor
Duc Luu	Kar Wai
Kurt Wimmer	Actor
Gilad Lotan	See-No-Evil Phage
Phillip Moore	Hear-No-Evil Phage
Robert Alonzo	Long-Haired Hemophage 1
Mitchell Gould	Long-Haired Hemophage 2,Long-Haired Hemophage 2
Daniel Hawe	Security Enforcer
Scott Piper	Garth's Assistant
Klaus Badelt	Composer,Actor
Arthur Wong	Actor
Dean Beville	Actor
John Baldecchi	Actor
Rita Fung	Actor
Sue Jett	Actor
Bob Clayton	Actor
Tony Mark	Actor
Louis Sit	Actor
Charles Wang	Actor,Actor
Ricardo Mamood-Vega	le mari de Violet
Igor Breakenback	Hemophage
Fei Wai Tse	Lab Technician #1
Daniel Whyte	Hemophage

Technical Credits

Kurt Wimmer

Kurt Wimmer	Director,Screenwriter
John Baldecchi	Producer
Victor Wong	Special Effects
Mike Smith	Stunts
Sue Jett	Executive Producer,Producer
Tony Mark	Executive Producer,Producer
Charles Wang	Executive Producer,Executive Producer,Producer,Producer
Louis Sit	Producer
Dean Beville	Sound Effects,Sound Effects
Bob Clayton	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

This entry in the videogame-as-movie sweepstakes borrows equally from Japanese anime, comic books, martial-arts films, and -- most improbably -- John Cassavetes' 1980 thriller, Gloria. In terms of production design and action choreography, it most closely resembles the recent Aeon Flux, right down to the provocatively clad, emotionally distant female protagonist. And, like that Charlize Theron star vehicle, it takes place in a dystopian future that finds the remnants of humanity centrally located in a megalopolis ruled by an elite group of scientists. Violet (Milla Jovovich), one of a rebel faction infected with a virus that enhances physical prowess, is directed to find and seize a rumored super-weapon currently held by the city's totalitarian rulers. That "weapon" turns out to be a young boy named Six (Cameron Bright), whose mutant genetic structure may hold the secret to a cure for the virus. When Six becomes a target, Violet takes desperate measures to keep him alive. Director Kurt Wimmer might easily have made this frankly derivative mélange a delirious spoof, but he opts instead for a grim tone. Fans of Matrix-styled fights and shootouts may experience déjà vu amid Wimmer's impressive array of combat scenes, which hit the marks but break little new ground.