ridiculous. i blame the director mostly.

Glass doesn't make very good armor (except in Oblivion).

looris is just confused. This is from the guy that made Equilibrium! A great flex-fest featuring the attractive mid-section of Milla.

Ultraviolet had a lot of potential, except Screen Gems kept cutting away at it. First they insisted that the story be half as long, cutting out a lot of the character development behind Violet, Garth, Six, and Daxus from the original script. Then they cut the funding for the movie, so Wimmer was forced to spread special-effects use thin, even though heavy effects use had been planned. And then finally, in order to appeal to wider audiences, they cut the movie down from 120 minutes to 84 minutes, focusing primarily on action. They also sanitized it, getting rid of the blood and various sound effects. (Crunching bone, screams of pain.) For example, during the finale of the movie, Violet loses 2 fingers in a fight, though this isn't shown and only lightly implied. There was an extended DVD released, but this didn't contain anything of great significance.

A novelization of a previous script (closer to the `120 minute long version) was released, and in this you can see a lot more of the character dynamic, especially focusing on Violet's past (her husband and child). It also points out her suicidal tendencies (she very nearly kills herself at one point) and the relationship she has with Garth is a lot closer. Also of note, the ending is a bit more ambiguous as to her survival. (I assume Screen Gems didn't want an unhappy ending, so they made her survival a lot more likely.)

Still, the movie did have some great moments. (The Blood Chinois fight being one of my favorites.) I'd have liked to have seen some of the planned final battles, such as Violet fighting against a bunch of soldiers who had their own gravity levelers and a more visible fight with Daxus (both were cut due to lack of funding.)

Anyway, forgive my long-windedness. I just thought it had to be said.

I watched this in the cinema upon release and I just detested the film entirely. The entire film from start to finish has a large degree of blur and over exposure added digitally to make some of the CGI less fake... however this makes the entire film look like ass.

Not to mention in the end you are forced to sit through 5 minutes of dialogue while hearing UV beating the snot out of a small platoon in another location adjacent. Like WTF?

Farhad, all that would be the result of the budget cuts. That part with the dialog while hearing all the fighting in the next room was supposed to have the fight using the gravity levelers. Of course, since it hadn't been filmed at the time of the budget cuts, it went out the window . . .

i was so disappointed with Aeon Flux, that i didn't even bother with this movie. I realize that this logic makes little sense, but it worked for me.

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