Role: Violet Song Jat Shariff
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Director: Kurt Wimmer
Written by: Kurt Wimmer
Running time: 94 min (Unrated cut), 87 min (Theatrical cut)
Budget: $30 million
Release Date: March 3, 2006
Additional Cast: Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund

Synopsis

Violet (Milla) is a tough vampire who finds herself the protector of a 9-year-old boy, Six (Cameron Bright) targeted for death. Backdrop is a civil war in the late 21st century between humans and a subculture turned into vampires.

Release

The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 27, 2006 in North America.There are two versions of the film, an unrated version (94 minutes long) and a PG-13 version (88 minutes long). The North American, European, South American, Hong Kong, Korean Blu-ray is the PG-13 version of the film. However the Japanese Blu-ray contains the Unrated version of the film.The film performed quite well in the DVD market, grossing over $35.1 million in rental sales.

Ultraviolet was released in North America on March 3, 2006, with Screen Gems deciding not to screen the film for critics. The film was generally negative, with a freshness of only 9% (7 out of 76 critics gave the film a positive review) on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.

The site’s critical consensus states the following:

“An incomprehensible and forgettable sci-fi thriller, Ultraviolet is inept in every regard.”

Critical Reception

– On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an 9% approval rating based on 81 reviews, with an average rating of 3/10. The site’s critical consensus states: “An incomprehensible and forgettable sci-fi thriller, Ultraviolet is inept in every regard.” On Metacritic the film has a score of 18 out of 100 based on reviews from 19 critics, indicating “Overwhelming dislike”. Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of “D+” on scale of A to F.
– Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter called it “The latest entry in the ‘This film is so bad we’re not screening it for critics’ genre.” He also criticized the action scenes: “Although extravagantly staged, they’re more than a little derivative” and “other sequences are rather more ridiculous”. Robert Koehler of Variety wrote: “Pic is hermetically sealed in a synthetic wrapping that’s so total – Sony’s top-flight high-def cameras, visibly low-budget CG work, exceptionally hackneyed and imitative action and dialogue – that it arrives a nearly lifeless film.”