ULTRAVIOLET - Film Review 19/3/06

Another film I wanted to watch mainly because the director Kurt Wimmer had directed "Equilibrium" with Christian Bale which I thought was far superior to "The Matrix". It also had Milla Jovovich in the lead and having seen her in "The Fifth Element" and "Resident Evil" I thought this would be interesting. Nick Chinlund is the bad guy Daxus you may remember as Toombs from "The Chronicle's Of Riddick" and plays a suitably unpleasant person with a hygiene fetish. It slaps you in the face from the start with swords meshing from bodies in hi-tech nano-wear suits and all guns blazing. Futuristic weaponary melds from hands and high speed chases with a bike roaring from floor and then sideways across walls as gunships rake destruction left, right and centre make this the film that "The Matrix" trilogy should have been - Followed by hand-to-hand fighting, swordplay slice-and-dice and then a confection of dazzling gunplay and explosions. The vampiric element to the story really take's a back-seat as the story is more about the "metaphor" of infection; which in our world actually come's across as quite close, with the current spread of HIV and the recent Bird-Flu invasion. Similiar in style and vision to "Aeon Flux" I feel this is the better film of the two. I look forward to Kurt Wimmer's next film and also look forward to Milla Jovovich in the next "Resident Evil 3" film.