About a month ago, I was robbed. A guy hit me over the head, went through my pockets and ran off with $4.95. That guy was Kurt Wimmer. If you listen carefully, you can still hear him chuckling as he takes his ill gotten gains (as meager as they were) to the bank.
This is easily one of the worst movies of the year--maybe of the last decade. If you didn’t know any better, you’d swear it was a video game adaptation. All the elements are there: gravity defying stunts, an almost infinite supply of weapons stored in hyperspace, instant costume changes, sword fighting, endless evil henchmen, vampire viruses--my head is about to explode. Maybe Kurt’s in the wrong business. Just get rid of all that pesky dialogue and any attempt at a coherent story.
“Ultraviolet” even fails on a it’s-from-the-director-of-Equilibrium-so-there’s-gotta-be-some-cool-gun-kata level. All the shooting and killing become mind-numbingly repetitive after the first action sequence. Now I’ve heard the stories that the studio edited the movie to their liking and cut Wimmer out the process, but still...this is a bad, bad movie. The curse of the action chick flick continues...
8 comments:
9/16/2006 09:29:00 PM
Yeh, my friends and I did the same thing. The old "it's a Mila it can't be that bad!"
Oh dear lord was it a train wreck. I haven't even seen Aeon Flux yet so I won't go into convulsions.
Bad enough I saw a preview of Violet before When a Stranger Calls DVD just sends chills down my spine...
9/17/2006 07:19:00 AM
If they were to hold an actual contest for "worst movie of all time," you could just call the whole thing off and hand the prize right away to this flaming turd .. It made me want to claw my own eyes out with a very blunt object
9/18/2006 01:02:00 AM
Reel,
I've heard terrible things about "BloodRayne" so maybe it'd be a tie.
Rk,
"Aeon Flux" has its flaws but certainly not on this level.
9/19/2006 01:38:00 AM
Yes this movie is terrible....
But I enjoyed Elektra and would Kill Bill be considered an action chick flick?
9/20/2006 12:05:00 AM
Yeah, "Kill Bill" would be considered an action chick flick, but I'm sure most people just see it as a Tarantino movie. "Elektra" didn't do a whole lot for me.
9/23/2006 09:04:00 PM
I thought my teenage boys would love this movie because... Milla!
But they said it was the worst movie they'd ever seen!
9/25/2006 01:16:00 AM
They were right.
10/04/2006 10:50:00 AM
Yeah. The same mugger hit my husband, too, so now we own it.
It's like Spike TV and Lifetime Movie Network had a bastard child inspired by Aeon Flux.
That one, at least, wasn't as good as hoped for but not as bad as expected.
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