Ultraviolet

ULTRAVIOLET (2005) - Jan. 12, 2010
About resistance fighter in a future society where some kind of disease turns people into vampires, this was a pretty mediocre film.  The movie featured a clunky, disjointed narrative which, for the director's sake, I hope can be attributed to the fact that the studio cut half an hour out of the film.  Because of this it was hard to ever particularly get into the movie or care about the protagonist too much.  The odd, hyper-stylized and seemingly intentionally artificial visual style didn't really help matters -- it made the whole thing seem like a cutscene for a videogame (the style actually reminded me a bit of Mirror's Edge -- only that had to be rendered in an Xbox; you'd expect a bit more from a big-budget film).  The action scenes were all super over-the-top but pretty entertaining, but that's really all the film had going for it.  *1/2