Ultraviolet (film)

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Movie
German title Ultraviolet
Original title Ultraviolet
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Kurt Wimmer
script Kurt Wimmer
production John Baldecchi ,
Lucas Foster ,
Pauline Chan
music Klaus Badelt
camera Arthur Wong ,
Jimmy Wong
cut William Yeh
occupation

Ultraviolet is an American action or science fiction film from 2006. It was directed by Kurt Wimmer , who also wrote the screenplay. The main roles were played by Milla Jovovich and Cameron Bright .

action

At the end of the 21st century, genetic modifications to a virus that has been known in Eastern Europe for centuries lead to an outbreak of a mysterious new disease called haemophagia, from which the nurse Violet Song jat Shariff fell ill. The sick people, called hemophages, change and become like vampires . The government is trying to wipe them out by locking them in camps and then killing them. Violet is forced by them to terminate her pregnancy, but survives and becomes a fighter for the hemophages.

A civil war breaks out when the government, under the leadership of the unscrupulous Vice Cardinal Ferdinand Daxus, finally wants to destroy the sick. Violet Song jat Shariff steals a deadly weapon from a government lab that turns out to be a young boy with blood running through his veins that could kill any vampire. However, she cannot bring herself to let the other hemophages kill the child and flees with him. On the run, they meet Vice Cardinal Daxus, who explains that the boy who only calls himself Six is ​​his son.

Violet escapes with the boy and explains to him that in his deadly blood there is probably the only salvation for her and the other sick people. She takes him to Garth, a scientist who is doing some research on Six's blood. Meanwhile, Daxus sets about wiping out the remaining hemophages. However, these overpower his bodyguards and face him for a duel. He kills everyone except for the leader Nerva, with whom he still has something to discuss.

In Garth's hiding place, Violet talks to Six about her shattered dreams of a family and children. She is very weak and needs a healing transfusion from Garth. This also reveals to her that Six has no poisons or remedies in the blood, but is only a radioactive tracking device, even suffering from deadly cell decay. Violet and Six leave the hiding place and are soon discovered by Daxus' bearing. Violet then wants to leave the boy in a public building, but can not bring himself to it and wants to save him from his captors. While they kill another child, Six is ​​kidnapped by the surviving hemophages around Nerva.

Violet pursues them to a cemetery in whose chapel Nerva is holding the boy prisoner. He reveals to them that Six is ​​actually carrying a poison that could kill not all haemophages, but all people. Nerva's subordinates attack her, but are overwhelmed by her. Nerva drops the boy tied to a rope into a well and tries to kill Violet. This defeats him and saves Six from the shaft. In order to find a solution for him, she contacts Daxus by phone. From him she learns that Six is ​​a clone of himself, namely the sixth of eight clones.

After tracing the call, Violet and her protégé go to Daxus' headquarters, which are guarded by 700 bodyguards. There she learns of the Vice Cardinal's actual plan. Now that the haemophage threat has almost been wiped out, he wants to maintain total control of society with the anti-human poison and antidote that only he possesses. After that, his men open fire on her, but discover that she is just a hologram . The real Violet is safe with Six, but is caught by Daxus' men shortly after his death and is also killed.

Garth later brings them back to life. When she asks him horrified why he did it, it becomes clear from his gaze that he loves her. However, she leaves him and wanders aimlessly through the city, watching people who have happier lives than her. Leaving everyone behind, she wants to kill herself when Garth calls her on the cell phone and explains that Six had written down a formula on a piece of paper that has something to do with the haemophagia virus. She then goes back to Daxus, who is in the process of transferring the virus from Six to a new clone, and causes a real bloodbath among the security forces until she confronts Daxus herself.

Only now does Daxus reveal that he himself was the laboratory technician who once released the virus, making him the first hemophage. The two fight in the dark with burning swords that Daxus can seem to win. Violet is able to distract Daxus, however, to set him on fire with the flamethrower that Daxus tried to use against them first. He was prevented from doing so when Violet extinguished the ignition flame with a splash of blood. In the end Violet knocks down the now burning Daxus with a sword blow.

Finally Violet is on the roof with Six. The boy survived after a tear from Violet fell on his face when he died, which infected him with the vampire virus. The two leave the burning building together.

Reviews

James Berardinelli railed on ReelViews for regretting every penny he spent on the movie ticket. He praised the direction and style of the film, but ridiculed the script and dialogues.

TV Spielfilm wrote: “The crude sci-fi fairy tale is pixel junk hacked together with the samurai sword with bloodless actors - a string of embarrassing dialogues and glossy martial arts gymnastics that are not even for friends of dashing sci-fi - Pussies are good. "

background

production

The production of the film cost about 30 million US dollars . Director and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer took up the martial art Gun Kata , which he invented in the film Equilibrium , in which the fighter uses logic and mathematics to calculate the trajectories of the bullets fired at him in advance in order to use them against his attackers.

The script is largely based on Gloria, the gangster bride from 1980. The premiere in the United States took place on March 3, 2006. The film opened in German cinemas on July 6, 2006.

Others

  • Director Kurt Wimmer makes a cameo as one of Nerva's bodyguards.
  • The biohazard warning sign appears in various places. The muzzle flash of Violet's pistols resembles him, as does the research laboratory at the beginning of the film.
  • The film makes multiple uses of the fictional language Thaihindi, an obvious mix of Thai and Hindi.
  • The distributor ScreenGems, a subsidiary of Sony, cut the film against Wimmer's will from originally 120 to 95 minutes and then again to 88 minutes in order to receive a PG-13 rating comparable to the German FSK 12 .
  • The opening sequence shows a number of comic books, which is intended to make it clear that the atmosphere of the film is based on comic books , although the film is not based on any comic or manga .
  • On May 22, 2012, the film was re-released in the United States in the Blu-ray Combo Pack with The Gray - Unter Wölfen .

Adaptations

The Japanese animation studio Madhouse produced a conversion of the film as Anime - television series entitled Ultraviolet: Code 044 . The twelve-part series aired July 1 through September 16, 2008 on Animax . The series was also released in Japan from October 22 to December 19, 2008 on six DVDs or on the latter date as a Blu-ray box.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Approval for Ultraviolet . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2006 (PDF; test number: 106 441 K).
  2. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  3. ↑ Criticism on TV feature film
  4. ^ The Gray Continues its Hunt on Blu-ray and DVD
  5. ↑ http://myanimelist.net/anime.php?id=4264