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@@UlshaRS I guess you mean the hangover thing? They are not a scam. I live in sweden and we can't get medical grade "hangover cures" here. Not because they don't work but just because they work too good so the ruling elite here is afraid that we will become a nation of alcoholics if they were allowed here. :P
Milla Jovovic needs more meat in that skinny body,you know what i mean.😂 I don't compare this with Matrix because they are different,both are movies i don't really care and for me Matrix is what it is: Special effect abuse with no story at all,pure nonsense from the begginning to end. Keanu Reaves does much better in John Wick and that is a real movie.
Perhaps the director isn't totally to blame on this, here is what IMDB trivia claims about this film. "The film's extensive visual effects are visibly unfinished in the final cut of the film. They were never completed as intended due to Executive Meddling. Sony had locked Kurt Wimmer and Milla Jovovich out of the editing room and hastily cobbled together an 88 minute PG-13 film out of Wimmer's R-rated workprint. Several scenes, including the infamous motorcycle chase scene, use incomplete temp-renders that were never meant to be seen outside of the editing room. The unfinished effects were a result of Sony trying to rush the film to release it on time on the planned date."
I unironically love this movie. In all it's awful glory. Fun fact: the director, Kurt Wimmer, wrote a few ok films but his latest work includes some of the worst remakes ever made: Total Recall 2012, Point Break 2015, and Children of the Corn 2020. His first writing credit was The Barbarian Bros vehicle Double Trouble.
I wouldn't even call his best movies ok - don't get me wrong, Equilibrium is a guilty pleasure for me, but that movie is still a stupid mix of so many great dystopian SF-classics - and it also has a hero with a kill count in the hundreds. Fun fact: I didn't know Wimmer wrote the script for the Total Recall-remake before i watched the movie, but when i saw Quaid taking out all the guards surrounding him at Recall i had the suspicion he might have been involved in some way ... The man just loves his "hero gets swarmed by guys with automated weapons and kills them all with ease"-scenes.
A friend's description of Ultraviolet's special effects: "They look like unfinished cutscenes from a budget-priced PlayStation 2 game." Never forgot that. This director's previous movie was Equilibrium with Christian Bale. It's Citizen Kane compared to Ultraviolet.
"The directors previous movie was Equilibrium" - That makes so much sense. With the Gunkatta like fighting, the gas masked non-descript henchmen, the final fight scene in the white room and the cross. It was trying very hard to be Equilibrium, with none of the care or attention not detail.
I was thinking the exact same thing. I remember the movie being terrible but I honestly didn't remember how bad the effects were and the wierd filter they used. That's why I love this channel. I hope they hit a 100k subscribers soon.
This movie is SUCH a guilty pleasure of mine. It is ridiculous and stupid and I love it. This was actually the first movie my wife and I saw in theaters when we were dating and well she didn't leave me for wanting to see it so there's that lol. The whole thing had this weird video game vibe. I actually even have a replica of her sword from the movie. This was the same director of Equilibrium, which has some similar theming but far superior movie. The choreography even used the similar "gun kata" that was in Equilibrium. Kurt Wimmer wasn't allowed to direct for a long while but he did write the screenplay for Angelina Jolie's Salt, which was also better than this one.
I think this is actually worse bc it's trying to recapture the EQUILIBRIUM lightning in a bottle. Equilibrium was not the best distopian-SciFi-action flick around but it was well-made and well-acted enough for it to make the mark as a cult film. The stars simply have not alligned for this to work.
FYI this movie is more famous for behind the scenes drama than anything in the actual film. Both the Director Kurt Wimmer & Milla Jovovich completely disown the film. Wimmer & Jovovich protested cuts the studio execs wanted made, and were physically locked out of the editing room. The Studio had 30 mins cut out of the film, and more insane they were on a time crunch & released the film with Temp & placeholder CGI NEVER meant to be seen by the public. This film is technically unfinished.
I saw this in theaters in ‘06 and my only memory is the scene where she touches the blood and her outfit turns red, I blurted out. “She’s a tampon.” That got a bigger reaction from the audience than anything on the screen.
@@JasonBrant Dude, I just left that exact comment on this thread. I watch your show too much... I'm starting to think like you. Next thing I know, I'll be married to a girl that could kick my ass, and have a best friend that's only around to make me seem less stupid & fat! 😉😁
I saw this in theaters when it came out, it was around the time Mila was doing a Resident Evil movie every week so someone thought she was an actual action star, so they decided to do something different, what we got was the Walmart version of Aeon Flux. I think it looks so bad (as in the effects) because they knew Bluray/HD DVD was coming soon after and I remember this was one of the first movies released on that format (I think it was HD DVD), so they wanted to capitalize on movies being able to use 720 to 1080.
@@JasonBrantI have the HD DVD player for Xbox 360. Stupid Sony went with blue ray, whatever the hell that is supposed to be. I'm sure blue ray or whatever will be just another beta.
The director of this, Kurt Wimmer, previously directed Equilibrium - a MUCH better movie - which also featured gun-kata, the style of martial arts seen throughout this film. It works significantly better in Equilibrium because it's mostly done with practical effects there, rather than the CGI-fest that is this film. It does, however, suffer from one of the same flaws as this film - Wimmer isn't a fan of flawed heroes. He felt that the stars shouldn't take damage during the action scenes... which, ironically, makes them far less tense, since you know the good guys are always going to win easily. This is more forgivable if the action scenes are still impressive - as is the case in Equilibrium - but not so much here! Additionally, the film was re-edited by the studio for being "too emotional" against the wishes of Wimmer and Milla Jovovich, causing them both to disown it. The Theatrical Cut lost about 30 minutes of plot-related material that MIGHT have made the film better... but probably not by much. The unrated version adds back about 6 minutes of footage, but it's nowhere near enough to fix things. The studio meddling also means many of the effects aren't finished, something that's very evident watching it, but overall the general visual style of the film would have doomed it regardless. Wimmer has, thankfully, gone on to do better things, writing the script for Salt (the Angelina Jolie film), though the rest of his filmography isn't quite as good, such as the Total Recall reboot. It's debatable whether Jovovich's career has improved, as I've seen Monster Hunter and... oof.
The reason the Gun Kata martial art works better in Equilibrium is that because of the way it was done. The fight director want to do the gun Kata 2.0, which is the official name it was given in Ultraviolet, in Equilibrium with fluid, circular movements whereas the director Kurt Wimmer thought that the gun kata martial art should be more linear, straight kinds of movements. It's like the difference in Chinese martial arts like Kung Fu that have circular movements/Gun Kata 2.0 and Japanese martial arts that have linear movements, Shotokan karate is an example. Kurt was was right because of in the plot of Equilibrium, a martial art like the first Gun Kata would be the one that fits, and also it was the director himself that came up with the Gun Kata. At the beginning of the movie when the person is demonstrating the Gun Kata, it was the director himself. Erin and Jason, you should watch Equilibrium to contrast the differences. My girlfriend at the time bought me the unrated cut of Ultraviolet when it came out on DVD and I also have the uncut version (I think) of Equilibrium.
I love this movie despite it's flaws. It's a very strange honestly but in a way that makes me happy like I am on acid and have not frign clue what I am watching... and loving it
I remember being kicked out of the Milla Jovovich fan club on MySpace when this came out because I wrote a review saying how awful this is, and how it was just a remake of Equilibrium but vampires. Wild times.
@JosephDiEgidioIII I only learned about that one when I opened Fandango to see what's playing this weekend, i had never heard of it anywhere else. Did you watch it? How is it? I'm watching Knights Of The Zodiac today, if'n you're curious.
This comment section is amazing. My favorites are "watching it was like being reintroduced to repressed memories" and "like watching the birth of a new genre which died by the time credits rolled". I tip my hat to you for making my day.
"This is not how you tell a story." THANK YOU. Man, I seem to remember the mantra "Show Don't Tell" from my many many classes in film. The voice-over is just LAZY. Budget was 30 million. Made 31 million.
@@Argoon1981 Usually to decide if a film is successful, you assume a total cost of about twice the listed cost of the film. This is "Overhead," Insurance costs, and the cost of promotions and advertising. Going by that metric, this film lost probably in the area of 20-29 million dollars. Of course, the magic of "Hollywood Accounting" probably covered that easily. I'd make a vid about that, but every time I try to untangle that madness my head explodes.
@@Argoon1981 Sorry, I can go on about that stuff for a while; Film Studies student for a long time. Before my health collapsed I was looking at a Masters/PHD in Film Studies; so I could at least teach and hopefully get other people to love film as much as I do.
This is a favorite guilty pleasure of mine and my dad's. Pretty sure we originally saw it in theaters. It's a B-film to be sure, but it's just fun to watch, with good visuals, great fights, and it has a functioning plot. One of my favorite lines is the exchange of "I have 700 soldiers, what could you possibly do against them?/I could kill them" bit followed by her actually following through (with that hilarious slow-mo shot of the lobby being destroyed and the villain realizing he is screwed).
Work an overnight shift, and I am usually at work when the videos are posted, in the middle of night (Australian east cost time). It is great to come home to SBIG video it really makes those long nights a little easier.
as someone whose seen this movie ...I say, I don't think people should see it even once. It was so bad, you forget you even seen it, till maybe the 5th or 6th viewing. That is usually the mark of a bad video. If you know you seen it more than once, and have no idea what its about.
LOL! Yeeeeeeeeeeah... I saw this in theaters when it came out and really enjoyed the level of all around 'bad" this movie is. It's got a few stars in it I really like Mila, William Fichtner, and Nick Chinlund but the level of incompetence that went into the directing, scripting, editing, and production of this film was a crime. It's a movie I had fun watching, but not because it was a good movie. It's just terrible. Here is a bit of IMBD trivia that no one really wanted. "Milla Jovovich has disowned the film, as she was disappointed on how it was handled by Sony, when the studio executives forced Kurt Wimmer to remove over 30 minutes of footage from the original cut. Kurt Wimmer has also disowned the final cut of the film, for not representing his original vision." I don't think an extra 30 minutes would have done anything other than prolong everyone's agony. LOL!
As someone who learned cross country skiing and skating in the cornfields of Nebraska in the mid seventies next to a man-made lake that had a dam in Hastings, Nebraska. You can indeed, 'Hike' up a dam in skates. The attempts to go down said dam on skates, or skis were problematic. Do you think W. Snipes has ever worn skates?
Speaking of bad CGI movies, you two should totally check out both Catwoman (2004) and The Spirit (2008). The former stars Halle Berry with a whole lot of badness, and the latter stars both Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson in quite possibly the most ridiculous black-and-white green screen movie since this pile that you have just reviewed. Hope you guys enjoy these films. 🤌🤌
This brought back some childhood nostalgia, I was in elementary school at the time and my sister had just come back from a tour in Iraq and she had a copy of the movie from one of the Iraqi vendors, one of the first films I remember watching with her. I loved the badguys and ninja guy's uniforms, its about the only compliment I can muster for this movie.
vendors lol you mean someone who illegally bootlegged it and sold it? You just outed your sister as having broken the law.....I think this is why we aren't supposed to talk about what our family actually did over there when on duty. if you love your sister, don't tell anyone that she bought bootlegs while serving our country, its a good way to get written up. But I imagine that she isn't in anymore. But that is still how current members of our armed forces get their passes revoked. It is illegal for any member of our Armed forced to buy bootleg anything. Theres copy write protections for a reason....and its one of the reasons our family served in the military at all
I remember renting this movie from Blockbuster, back in the day when rentals were a thing. I got about 10 minutes into this and thought, "I've made a horrible mistake and I'm stuck with this movie for another two days!"
The unrated "extended" release of this is only longer by a few minutes and apparently is still missing like 20 minutes of character development scenes that have never seen the light of day. I think the likely explanation for the end result is that after the studio execs kicked the director out of the editing room, they soon after decided to wash their hands of it entirely and just released the workprint as the finished film. The effects don't just look _bad,_ they look like the simple render you'd do to test them out before committing to the more time-consuming actual render (which was simply never done.) The motorcycle chase at the beginning especially has this look.
Really enjoy your content. Would love to see you guys watch Tiptoes starring Gary Oldman and Matthew McConaughey. Such a bizarre movie, that I'm sure you'd have fun with it 👍
@@captainstanhope4193 Gary Oldman is a FANTASTIC actor. That dude's body of work would make any actor damn proud. But I'll bet he wakes up some nights in a cold sweat, and a single word escapes his lips... "t i p t o e s!"
Sky Captain and the Psychotic Computer Ninjas of Tomorrow... and if you think the makeup and CG is bad... wait until you experience the acting! XD the movie was so bad it made Erin forget the premise of SBIG 🤣
I remember when this first came out. I hadn't even heard of it during its theatrical run, but my roommates swore by it once it was out on disc. They made it sound like the Citizen Kane of action films so I felt compelled to check it out. I couldn't finish it on my first viewing, and this episode of SBIG is the closest I've ever come to completing it. I literally went and read a book as a palate cleanser while they finished watching this mess, lol.
@@JasonBrant I lost touch with them after I moved to a new state a few years later. Can we blame Ultraviolet for it? It's just about bad enough to deserve it, lol!
Good God... Ultraviolet. I remember how much I was looking forward to this film at the time, because the director's previous work, Equilibrium, is a cult classic and one of my favorite movies. This abomination, however, was equal to torture. It's rare for every single element of a movie to be this bad. Not even Milla Jovovich's beauty can save this crap. I saw the agony on Erin and Jason's faces and I can say that I felt their pain completely.
This movie is peak cringe. A golden standard almost. Marvellous. I only wish there was more blood. Watched it like three times, once even while being sober. I love it. It is very on point and definitely has its own strong spirit.
I used to have a dog similar to that. Take your dog, imagine him all black, same size and kind of fur, and give him floppy ears. That was my dog, his name was Lucky. He was around when my pure white Malamute died and we got the brown dog in my profile pic. He had not one but two big brothers during his life. Unfortunately all three are no longer with us. Bear (profile dog) and Jake (Malamute) passed with natural causes and old age. Lucky, ironically given his name, sadly passed from stomach cancer.
The problem with the movie is that the producers came to the conclution that they didn't like the story so they edited the most of it away resulting in a collection of action scenes with no context.
I remember seeing this on DVD and then mistakenly thinking I had accidentally bought a pirate copy of a rough edit... then I realised the 'no... no, that's the actual movie!'
This is what you get when you cast models instead of actors.I've suffered through this multiple times (my wife has horrible taste), and i JUST NOW realize they're freaking vampires.
I admit I rather like Kathy Ireland in Alien From L. A., especially her (absolutely real) squeaky voice. Not a good movie but fun, and Kathy’s looks and her absurd voice really help make it enjoyable despite everything.
@@markiangooley there's only 3 thing I've seen Kathy Ireland in. Sports illustrated, "mom and dad save the world", and my pubescent dreams. Her, Pamela Anderson, Kelly LeBrock, and anna Nicole Smith made laundry day very awkward for about 6 years.
@@adrianaslund8605I don't remember Joan of Arc that much but I thought she was decent in it. A movie I disliked was something called Caliber 0.45 or whatever. I think she was okay in it but I remember NOT liking any character, including hers!
I remember seeing this when it came out and immediately I realized that the marketing campaign (which was substantial and relentless at the time) was where they spent all their effort and money
@@JasonBrant And so Wimmer ... he got worse over time. Christian Bales character from Equlibrium looks almost like a normal human being compared to Mila ...
It looks like the bad effects like the soft filter were a deliberate choice where they wanted it to feel like you're inside a comic book. But trying to turn live action into a cartoon just hits the uncanny valley every time unless you go all the way and just hire actual animators and make it a cartoon.
@@JasonBrant was this the last movie the puppy watched then? Hopefully..... hopefully it saw SOMETHING better than....THIS before it passed. Rip little puppy.
I remember seeing thus in my early 20s in the theater because I was so excited. I was so pissed at how bad this was I was literally telling strangers to avoid it. It's the only time in my life I've developed a white-hot passion for something.
Jason's reaction to Erin speaked volumes he's thinking I don't know this woman at all despite being married to her for many years.😂😂😂 This reaction was comedy gold Jason looked aghast throughout, I seen this at cinema & came out talking like Ozzy Osbourne 😂😂 "Sharon what the fuck was that bloody horrible".
I loved how Erin was going to walk out at the beginning if she had to watch Toxic Avenger 2... then she watched something far worse and gave it a good review. Jason's expression at the end said it all. Erin, you've curdled Cream.
Sony went with a Hong Kong based CGI company (who actually did do video game work on the Final Fantasy series, though they also did a lot of Hong Kong movies as well) that hadn't handled anything this big before by the looks of it. The movie ended up having SIX times the amount of effects shots than was originally intended. With that and other heavy studio interference, it starts to make sense...
even if it had six times less, it wouldn't have been good. That actor sucks, Mia is only good in 5th element and thats because she has NO LINES lol well, no real lines
Most of them are directed, produced and written by her husband, the resident evil movies. She can actually act but why should she when hubby gives you jobs. She also can sing, she had an album in the nineties that did quite well.
It's Mother's Day and after seeing this get uploaded, my momma's gonna have to wait an extra half an hour to see me. A man's gotta have his priorities in order and there ain't much that tops SBIG and Ultraviolet!.
They spent a lot also marketing this film and it crashed and burned. Over a half hour footage was removed by the studio and the director and Mila both disowned it. 30 million budget and made 31 million altogether, but probably spent close 90 million on marketing. If remember right her first film was Dazed & Confused, but it was The Fifth Element that got her noticed and after that she became the female action star time.
The Fifth Element was overrated garbage. Her role could have easily been played by any random Euro model and been indistinguishable. It was the Resident Evil series that somehow elevated her further, but ended up becoming a long running joke that wore out its welcome mat.
Dude...hats off to y'all for soldiering through this pile of crap. Of all of her movies (Since her husband directs and write most of them, could they be conisdered vanity projects?) this one was the most cringe worthy. I'm so glad you and Erin both noticed the crappy "filter" this was shot with. I actually took my DVD of this back to the store to exchange it for a new one thinking it was a bad copy when in fact it was INTENTIONAL. I think the entire budget went to Mila's outfits. Your reactions to Erin trying to describe why she liked this POS was comedic gold! Keep up the great work!
This was actually the followup to the same writer director's (Kurt Wimmer) Cult success film EQUILIBRIUM from 2002. In case you're still wondering the production budget was $30 million, so not quite BIG budget but still a decent sized budget for a Hollywood movie. Oh and Wimmer swears that this movie was meant to be a Sci-Fi update of a 1980 gangster film called GLORIA that starred Gena Rowlands.
I used to frequent a message board where the director of this film would sometimes bless us with his presence, I remember one notable occasion when he confessed to being high as a kite on some skunk weed and proceeded to write this very long post about how the Matrix Reloaded had got everything wrong and how he, the director of Equilibrium, would have done this and that and this etc. A few years later this came out and the mods of the board were very, very quiet about ol' KW, who destroyed his director career with this but did manage to hang on and produce some pretty terrible scripts for the Point Break and Total Recall remakes. The reactions on this vid were great, I wish though you'd shown us what you were reacting to, as there is so much terrible stuff in this film from what I (sort of) remember. edit: it was rumored on that message board that Mila and KW were intimately involved during the production of the film and I recall an interview around this time of her pouting about how he wouldn't let her edit the film, FFS this whole thing is so funny to remember.
That soften filter was an early 2000s thing, I remembered playing two video games with cutscenes using real actors and they did that same thing, for this movie they wanted to give it the whole comic book animation vibe, the Speed Racer movie did it wayyy better and that movie used same amount of cgi as this, and as for the action scenes, the movie Equilibrium came out years before Ultraviolet and did the same kind of action scenes so much better
That was like an insane mix of The Matrix Reloaded, Equilibrium and Blade, what a bizarre movie! And your reaction to Erin, the way you looked straight at the camera, I re-watched that a few times, absolutely hilarious! 😄
At some point, please watch the British classic "Hawk the Slayer" and play the Hawk the Slayer drinking game: - SIP your drink when you see skulls - SIP your drink when you see fog - SIP your drink when you hear the Hawk the Slayer theme - (optional) Down your drink when you see all of the above together I managed 30 minutes but that's because I chose rum and cokes and my friends chose beer.
I remember seeing this announced on theaters back in the day. I also remember it being a colossal flop. And look, I can look past the flaws of a low budget movie, but when a bad movie has cost more money than I'll ever see in my lifetime, it's just sad.
I noticed something and now I can't unsee it 🤣 The guy at 6:33 in the background looks like the hand of the guy in the front showing the middle finger, if you squint your eyes you can see it, I was looking at my other monitor and couldn't stop laughing when I noticed.
Sooooo...I saw the headline and thought........"How come the younger version of me only made it about 25-30 minutes into this film before shutting it off??? You guys have JOGGED MY MEMORY!!! MY GOD!!!! Jason I have a question, are you in film school? Also: What 2 movies did you actually walk out of? I've walked out of 2 movies that I can remember. 1. "The Corsican Brothers" w/Cheech n' Chong 2. "Hart's War" probably the beginning of a series of terrible movies starring Bruce Willis. Just..... unwatchable....
As others have said, the director directed Equilibrium, which was a GREAT dystopian action movie with Christian Bale. How did this happen? How? How? Or was Equilibrium a complete fluke on the director's part?
Heyyy, you guys found a new rabbit hole! Milla Jovovich, bad-CG movies should be their own catalog in the same way that Sifu Seagal movies are. Not that they're as terrible or as numerous, as Seagal movies, but it's remarkable how consistent they are.
You should do "Hercules in New York" - one if not THE first movie of Arnold Schwarzenegger and he won the role for winning a Mr. Universe title. This movie is soooooo amazing. And it exists in two different english versions.... one where Arni is synched and one where you can hear him speaking and of course you should watch the later one 😁
Lol, the hilarious part is that the original UltraViolet comic, was stylized Ultra-Violence. The movie was actually on theme for the comic. The effects were mostly garbage, and fight scenes were flashy because they were trying to show the characters as moving at near bullet speeds.
I remember the live action Æon Flux came out around the same time, and it’s eerie, how similar both films are, dealing with strange, overly designed futuristic, dictatorships, being fought by a beautiful kung fu lady in mostly black
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After this movie, I realized I was an adult. I walked out of the Movie theater at the Arundel mills mall and was profoundly disappointed that I had wasted almost 2 hours of my day seeing this. It was the first time in my life I realized that my time had value. This movie was aweful
The guy who wrote this also wrote Salt, which I'm sure Erin will love and he also wrote Double Trouble with the Barbarian Brothers. I did like Equilibrium though. He also Directed One Man's Justice with Brian Bosworth.
This was "After Last Season" levels of CGI/Clip Art/Finger-painting and animation. Everything looked like it came out of a demo CD for a Windows 95 collection of Clip Art. A lot of this reminded me of "The Amazing Bulk".
Kurt Wimmer also directed One Man's Justice aka One Tough Bastard with Brian Bosworth. All I remember this movie was pretty stupid and the main bad guy Bruce Payne was so awesome here looks like some anime character with a long hair and earring (and he was FBI agent btw). I think you should check it.
It seems like an attempt to make a low budget ripoff of Resident Evil, but vampires are added to the story, to give its own twist. It's just an excuse to have Mila fight hordes, like a video game. It kinda seems that was what the creators were going for: To create a video game style movie, that isn't based on a particular video game. A comic book theme was also added, to give it an additional excuse to not adhere to reality. I think someone saw the Ruby series of Ati tech demos, and thought the idea would make a good movie. The story was added later, once they "fleshed" out the character. Her chief super power seems to be the ability to change the color of her outfit, like the receptionist in Total Recall. I had forgotten how bad the visual effects were. I can understand the final rating, though. Sometimes, it's fun to watch someone being traumatized by a truly bad movie. If it's not making you squirm yourself, then you can derive enjoyment by watching the film with someone.
Theory my hubby and I were discussing. Could the "bad (cgi, effects, etc...)" perhaps be intentional to give it a "comic book coming to life" vibe? The only other viable excuses then would be laziness or incompetence. 😅
As sad as it is to say this, I feel like the application of synthetic-looking filters onto Milla’s naturally good looks is a fairly good metaphor for so much of her career. She seems to have so much talent as a performer (did her own stunts in at least the original Resident Evil, speaks several languages, created a surprisingly good Kate Bush-esque pop-folk album as a teenager that I actually own on CD), and yet she keeps starring in these horribly-written movies that don’t really do her justice in the end. Granted, a lot of them were directed by her husband (who she actually started dating after they worked together on the aforementioned original Resident Evil, which came out four years before this one), and I guess she must have fun acting in them, but I still can’t help but feel like she’s let a lot of her potential be wasted over the last two decades.
I thought I heard Jason say this movie was around 30 M? It sure doesn't show on screen. This isn't even a ...so bad it's good, it's just bad. An embarrassment to everyone involved.
@@JasonBrant that's what I remember the LA scuttlebutt at the time was (I grew up in LA). Definitely notable that the Aeon Flux movie came out a year before and was, while pretty stinky, not *this* bad
This movie is a storyboard artist drogue trip. “ this will look cool” -what the story? “ visual eye candy “ - what??? “ kids will love the Colours” - what????? “ we got Milla Jovovich” - I’m in
Ah Ultraviolet, a film that both Mila and the director disowned after Sony took a huge dumb on it on the editing room, even going as far to locking them out of the process. Original film was 2 hours long and R rated. They also released the film with unfinished effects. Sony pictures in a nutshell.
I really liked Kurt Wimmer's prior film, Equilibrium. So I gave this a chance when it came bundled with my PS3 back in the day. What an introduction to HD movies at home. Eye-gougingly bad CG and softening filter, weird framerate, nonsensical-to-nonexistent story, and some of the worst action choreography and direction I've seen in a high-budget movie.
shame on me but for a microsecond i thought this movie was written by david hayter (snake) and i had to pause to google it, thank god NO, i remember him saying in the early 2000s he was a part of the writing team that made an action movie with a female protagonist and it was kinda started to be shoot but studio was afraid it would flop as well after eon flux flopped at the cinemas...so i thought that someone took the few shots they had before it was shut down and cgi'ed it to released it
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Even the Gun Kata sucks in this game :P
The only movie with a good Gun Kata is in the movie Equilibrium
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Those claims sound dubious 😔
@@UlshaRS I guess you mean the hangover thing?
They are not a scam.
I live in sweden and we can't get medical grade "hangover cures" here.
Not because they don't work but just because they work too good so the ruling elite here is afraid that we will become a nation of alcoholics if they were allowed here. :P
Milla Jovovic needs more meat in that skinny body,you know what i mean.😂
I don't compare this with Matrix because they are different,both are movies i don't really care and for me Matrix is what it is:
Special effect abuse with no story at all,pure nonsense from the begginning to end.
Keanu Reaves does much better in John Wick and that is a real movie.
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"I think it's worth watching because it's miserable..."
A quote for our times. Kudos, Erin.
I think she has drank a lot more than we think.
I still don't know what she was thinking.
I thought she was being very diplomatic...a dorm TV would have done that movie more justice than your viewing room, j. 😂
Maybe good for an escapism?
@@JasonBrant Erin basically that Ultraviolet is just as good as Se7en 🤣
Perhaps the director isn't totally to blame on this, here is what IMDB trivia claims about this film.
"The film's extensive visual effects are visibly unfinished in the final cut of the film. They were never completed as intended due to Executive Meddling. Sony had locked Kurt Wimmer and Milla Jovovich out of the editing room and hastily cobbled together an 88 minute PG-13 film out of Wimmer's R-rated workprint. Several scenes, including the infamous motorcycle chase scene, use incomplete temp-renders that were never meant to be seen outside of the editing room. The unfinished effects were a result of Sony trying to rush the film to release it on time on the planned date."
Given Kurts other works being generally good or acceptable, this definitely seems to be a major factor.
At that rate he should've Alan Smithee'd the movie.
Seems like everyone involved in the decision making of this is to blame.
I did not know Milla edited her own films.
And heavily filtered, CG heavy greenscreen movies can work, as Sin City, 300 and Speed Racer have demonstrated. It just needs to be done right.
“This is blade, if blade was a giant pile of shit” -J. Brant
Definitely should be a box blurb.
Eloquent as always.
@@JasonBrantI totally agree. Even the third installment of Blade wasn't as bad.
Funniest thing I've heard in a long time.
@@AnikMonette And that's despite having vampire pomeranians and the worst depiction of Dracula i've ever seen ...
I unironically love this movie. In all it's awful glory. Fun fact: the director, Kurt Wimmer, wrote a few ok films but his latest work includes some of the worst remakes ever made: Total Recall 2012, Point Break 2015, and Children of the Corn 2020. His first writing credit was The Barbarian Bros vehicle Double Trouble.
I enjoyed Total Recall 2012. Its problem is... it's NOT Total Recall. I think the same movie with another name would have had been better received.
Holy shit.... makes so much sense now....
I wouldn't even call his best movies ok - don't get me wrong, Equilibrium is a guilty pleasure for me, but that movie is still a stupid mix of so many great dystopian SF-classics - and it also has a hero with a kill count in the hundreds.
Fun fact: I didn't know Wimmer wrote the script for the Total Recall-remake before i watched the movie, but when i saw Quaid taking out all the guards surrounding him at Recall i had the suspicion he might have been involved in some way ...
The man just loves his "hero gets swarmed by guys with automated weapons and kills them all with ease"-scenes.
What’s with him making crappy remakes.
@@lordmontymord8701 he wrote Salt and Street Kings, which i thought were decent. He does seem to like high kill counts.
A friend's description of Ultraviolet's special effects: "They look like unfinished cutscenes from a budget-priced PlayStation 2 game." Never forgot that.
This director's previous movie was Equilibrium with Christian Bale. It's Citizen Kane compared to Ultraviolet.
Many people made a comparison like this ... man, CGI from movies like this wasn't even good back then.
@@lordmontymord8701 I read the movie was released with lots of unfinished FX shots.
"The directors previous movie was Equilibrium" - That makes so much sense. With the Gunkatta like fighting, the gas masked non-descript henchmen, the final fight scene in the white room and the cross. It was trying very hard to be Equilibrium, with none of the care or attention not detail.
I was thinking the exact same thing. I remember the movie being terrible but I honestly didn't remember how bad the effects were and the wierd filter they used. That's why I love this channel. I hope they hit a 100k subscribers soon.
Your friends description was spot on.
This movie is SUCH a guilty pleasure of mine. It is ridiculous and stupid and I love it. This was actually the first movie my wife and I saw in theaters when we were dating and well she didn't leave me for wanting to see it so there's that lol. The whole thing had this weird video game vibe. I actually even have a replica of her sword from the movie. This was the same director of Equilibrium, which has some similar theming but far superior movie. The choreography even used the similar "gun kata" that was in Equilibrium. Kurt Wimmer wasn't allowed to direct for a long while but he did write the screenplay for Angelina Jolie's Salt, which was also better than this one.
Sucks that he never directed anymore movies after this, because I loved Equalibrium too.
Your wife is a saint.
Haha, same with me!
Yeah, it absolutely boggles me that this and Equilibrium were written and directed by the same guy. Completely opposite ends of the good/bad spectrum.
Equilibrium is an awesome movie! Definitely can see the style of the director showing through although this is arguably far worse.
The Matrix almost ruined cinema for 10 years with Hollywood’s attempts to recapture that same feeling. Not even the sequels did that.
As bad as Matrix clones were, Bourne clones are worse because of shaky cam
@@bruceleeds7988 agreed on the shaky cam, but still think the world would be better without Charlie;s Angels Full Throttle and MI2
I think this is actually worse bc it's trying to recapture the EQUILIBRIUM lightning in a bottle. Equilibrium was not the best distopian-SciFi-action flick around but it was well-made and well-acted enough for it to make the mark as a cult film. The stars simply have not alligned for this to work.
@@walmorcarvalho2512 Duck & spin moves inspired by Equilibrium
@@_thechosen Just about to say that. This movie stole a lot of the gun fighting from Equilibrium haha
FYI this movie is more famous for behind the scenes drama than anything in the actual film. Both the Director Kurt Wimmer & Milla Jovovich completely disown the film. Wimmer & Jovovich protested cuts the studio execs wanted made, and were physically locked out of the editing room. The Studio had 30 mins cut out of the film, and more insane they were on a time crunch & released the film with Temp & placeholder CGI NEVER meant to be seen by the public. This film is technically unfinished.
I saw this in theaters in ‘06 and my only memory is the scene where she touches the blood and her outfit turns red, I blurted out. “She’s a tampon.” That got a bigger reaction from the audience than anything on the screen.
On that day my good sir you became cinema legend 🍻
ROFLMAO! That's awesome!
MST3K fans are everywhere.
You should have said "the ocean called and it wanted it's shrimp back".
Truly an inspired quip!
Even the pupper knew to abandon ship on this one.
She was blind, deaf, and demented. And she still knew to get out of watching the movie.
@@JasonBrant Dude, I just left that exact comment on this thread. I watch your show too much... I'm starting to think like you. Next thing I know, I'll be married to a girl that could kick my ass, and have a best friend that's only around to make me seem less stupid & fat! 😉😁
This legit made me laugh.
@@jackflash8218 Dave is a good guy 😂 We all need a Dave in our lives.
12:45 The problem with almost every Milla Jovovich action movie, she doesn't play a Mary Sue she plays the Mary Sue.
Jason's comments and Erin's laughing are the only two things that made this bearable.
Thanks!
usually, and you didn't even have to watch the full movie either. Imagine what their motivation was.
I saw this in theaters when it came out, it was around the time Mila was doing a Resident Evil movie every week so someone thought she was an actual action star, so they decided to do something different, what we got was the Walmart version of Aeon Flux. I think it looks so bad (as in the effects) because they knew Bluray/HD DVD was coming soon after and I remember this was one of the first movies released on that format (I think it was HD DVD), so they wanted to capitalize on movies being able to use 720 to 1080.
I think I still have my HD DVD player somewhere.
@@JasonBrantI have the HD DVD player for Xbox 360. Stupid Sony went with blue ray, whatever the hell that is supposed to be. I'm sure blue ray or whatever will be just another beta.
Truly a waste...
@@FulkNerraIII Shout out to this comment from 2007. 599 US dollars! PS3 has no games!
The director of this, Kurt Wimmer, previously directed Equilibrium - a MUCH better movie - which also featured gun-kata, the style of martial arts seen throughout this film. It works significantly better in Equilibrium because it's mostly done with practical effects there, rather than the CGI-fest that is this film. It does, however, suffer from one of the same flaws as this film - Wimmer isn't a fan of flawed heroes. He felt that the stars shouldn't take damage during the action scenes... which, ironically, makes them far less tense, since you know the good guys are always going to win easily. This is more forgivable if the action scenes are still impressive - as is the case in Equilibrium - but not so much here!
Additionally, the film was re-edited by the studio for being "too emotional" against the wishes of Wimmer and Milla Jovovich, causing them both to disown it. The Theatrical Cut lost about 30 minutes of plot-related material that MIGHT have made the film better... but probably not by much. The unrated version adds back about 6 minutes of footage, but it's nowhere near enough to fix things. The studio meddling also means many of the effects aren't finished, something that's very evident watching it, but overall the general visual style of the film would have doomed it regardless.
Wimmer has, thankfully, gone on to do better things, writing the script for Salt (the Angelina Jolie film), though the rest of his filmography isn't quite as good, such as the Total Recall reboot. It's debatable whether Jovovich's career has improved, as I've seen Monster Hunter and... oof.
Salt was garbage too though lol
@Dylan Piazza Eh, I enjoyed it. Either way it's still better than anything else he's done.
The reason the Gun Kata martial art works better in Equilibrium is that because of the way it was done. The fight director want to do the gun Kata 2.0, which is the official name it was given in Ultraviolet, in Equilibrium with fluid, circular movements whereas the director Kurt Wimmer thought that the gun kata martial art should be more linear, straight kinds of movements. It's like the difference in Chinese martial arts like Kung Fu that have circular movements/Gun Kata 2.0 and Japanese martial arts that have linear movements, Shotokan karate is an example. Kurt was was right because of in the plot of Equilibrium, a martial art like the first Gun Kata would be the one that fits, and also it was the director himself that came up with the Gun Kata. At the beginning of the movie when the person is demonstrating the Gun Kata, it was the director himself.
Erin and Jason, you should watch Equilibrium to contrast the differences. My girlfriend at the time bought me the unrated cut of Ultraviolet when it came out on DVD and I also have the uncut version (I think) of Equilibrium.
Don't forget that equilibrium had Christian Bale, who carries a movie much better than Milla Jovovich.
@@shrapnel77 So true!
I love this movie despite it's flaws. It's a very strange honestly but in a way that makes me happy like I am on acid and have not frign clue what I am watching... and loving it
Y'know, maybe it IS more of a weed movie than an alcohol movie...It's still stupid and puzzling and visually confusing, but...weed. 😑
Definitely like an acid trip.
@@Panicagq2 i do smoke a LOT of weed 🤣 I never drink anymore. I think you are into something...
I couldn't watch so much Scooby-Doo if I was drunk
Same thing here i love the film too especially since that the original cut was nearly a basically a different movie.
30 million bucks for the budget of this thing?? Wtf?!
12:52 "This is blade... If Blade was a giant pile of shit." Oh, so Blade 3.
Boom, roasted.
I remember being kicked out of the Milla Jovovich fan club on MySpace when this came out because I wrote a review saying how awful this is, and how it was just a remake of Equilibrium but vampires. Wild times.
_$30M_ budget… can someone explain how this isn’t all a money laundering scheme?
I'll do you one better, that new Ben Affleck flop Hypnotic cost 65 MILLION DOLLARS to make and nothing warranted it. Not even Ben's salary
well...... okay so...... uuummmmm ........ yeah got nothng
Well, it wasn't an Uwe Boll movie, so I dunno🤣🤣🤣🤣
@JosephDiEgidioIII I only learned about that one when I opened Fandango to see what's playing this weekend, i had never heard of it anywhere else. Did you watch it? How is it? I'm watching Knights Of The Zodiac today, if'n you're curious.
Hollywood slush funds are real.
This comment section is amazing. My favorites are "watching it was like being reintroduced to repressed memories" and "like watching the birth of a new genre which died by the time credits rolled". I tip my hat to you for making my day.
"This is not how you tell a story." THANK YOU. Man, I seem to remember the mantra "Show Don't Tell" from my many many classes in film. The voice-over is just LAZY.
Budget was 30 million. Made 31 million.
At lest didn't lose money and made 1 million more, in my book that is a win... of sorts... :P
@@Argoon1981 Usually to decide if a film is successful, you assume a total cost of about twice the listed cost of the film. This is "Overhead," Insurance costs, and the cost of promotions and advertising. Going by that metric, this film lost probably in the area of 20-29 million dollars. Of course, the magic of "Hollywood Accounting" probably covered that easily. I'd make a vid about that, but every time I try to untangle that madness my head explodes.
@@danielvandersall6756 I was joking but thanks for the lesson. :D
@@Argoon1981 Sorry, I can go on about that stuff for a while; Film Studies student for a long time. Before my health collapsed I was looking at a Masters/PHD in Film Studies; so I could at least teach and hopefully get other people to love film as much as I do.
@@danielvandersall6756 No problem and sad to hear about your health, I really hope it gets better. cheers.
This is a favorite guilty pleasure of mine and my dad's. Pretty sure we originally saw it in theaters. It's a B-film to be sure, but it's just fun to watch, with good visuals, great fights, and it has a functioning plot. One of my favorite lines is the exchange of "I have 700 soldiers, what could you possibly do against them?/I could kill them" bit followed by her actually following through (with that hilarious slow-mo shot of the lobby being destroyed and the villain realizing he is screwed).
I saw this in the theater. I fell asleep and woke up during the motorcycle chase.
Did you leave after that scene?
Work an overnight shift, and I am usually at work when the videos are posted, in the middle of night (Australian east cost time). It is great to come home to SBIG video it really makes those long nights a little easier.
Whoa. This is a movie I've actually seen and liked (because it was stupid)
Edit:
Yea I'm with Erin. People should see it, at least once.
You want to torture people too 🤣
@@JasonBrant I've shown it to 2 separate friend groups. We suffer together
as someone whose seen this movie ...I say, I don't think people should see it even once. It was so bad, you forget you even seen it, till maybe the 5th or 6th viewing. That is usually the mark of a bad video. If you know you seen it more than once, and have no idea what its about.
LOL!
Yeeeeeeeeeeah...
I saw this in theaters when it came out and really enjoyed the level of all around 'bad" this movie is. It's got a few stars in it I really like Mila, William Fichtner, and Nick Chinlund but the level of incompetence that went into the directing, scripting, editing, and production of this film was a crime.
It's a movie I had fun watching, but not because it was a good movie. It's just terrible.
Here is a bit of IMBD trivia that no one really wanted.
"Milla Jovovich has disowned the film, as she was disappointed on how it was handled by Sony, when the studio executives forced Kurt Wimmer to remove over 30 minutes of footage from the original cut. Kurt Wimmer has also disowned the final cut of the film, for not representing his original vision."
I don't think an extra 30 minutes would have done anything other than prolong everyone's agony. LOL!
If I rented this at Blockbuster they wouldn't have to rewind much at all.
Jesus, that random mention of Blockbuster & rewinding VHS tapes gave me a nostalgia hit.
Fùck you're old
Haha!
They stopped making movies on VHS in 08', so this movie could have speeded the process up.
@@shrapnel77 Just making a joke there shrapnel77. Can't make the same joke when talking about a dvd.🙄
This movie is like if Equilibrium and Underworld got super drunk, hooked up at a party, and had a FAS baby.
"Some motherfuckers always trying to ice skate uphill." Watching Blade, and then Daybreakers is a great combo.
As someone who learned cross country skiing and skating in the cornfields of Nebraska in the mid seventies next to a man-made lake that had a dam in Hastings, Nebraska. You can indeed, 'Hike' up a dam in skates. The attempts to go down said dam on skates, or skis were problematic. Do you think W. Snipes has ever worn skates?
@@ATEC101 He's probably worn skates of some sort more reliably than he's payed his taxes.
@@ATEC101 you can hike uphill but you won't look like Torvill and Dean when you do it 😂
Speaking of bad CGI movies, you two should totally check out both Catwoman (2004) and The Spirit (2008). The former stars Halle Berry with a whole lot of badness, and the latter stars both Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson in quite possibly the most ridiculous black-and-white green screen movie since this pile that you have just reviewed.
Hope you guys enjoy these films.
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FINALLY. Nobody has reacted to this. You guys are the first and that's why I love this channel
This brought back some childhood nostalgia, I was in elementary school at the time and my sister had just come back from a tour in Iraq and she had a copy of the movie from one of the Iraqi vendors, one of the first films I remember watching with her. I loved the badguys and ninja guy's uniforms, its about the only compliment I can muster for this movie.
vendors lol you mean someone who illegally bootlegged it and sold it? You just outed your sister as having broken the law.....I think this is why we aren't supposed to talk about what our family actually did over there when on duty.
if you love your sister, don't tell anyone that she bought bootlegs while serving our country, its a good way to get written up. But I imagine that she isn't in anymore. But that is still how current members of our armed forces get their passes revoked. It is illegal for any member of our Armed forced to buy bootleg anything. Theres copy write protections for a reason....and its one of the reasons our family served in the military at all
I remember renting this movie from Blockbuster, back in the day when rentals were a thing. I got about 10 minutes into this and thought, "I've made a horrible mistake and I'm stuck with this movie for another two days!"
The unrated "extended" release of this is only longer by a few minutes and apparently is still missing like 20 minutes of character development scenes that have never seen the light of day. I think the likely explanation for the end result is that after the studio execs kicked the director out of the editing room, they soon after decided to wash their hands of it entirely and just released the workprint as the finished film. The effects don't just look _bad,_ they look like the simple render you'd do to test them out before committing to the more time-consuming actual render (which was simply never done.) The motorcycle chase at the beginning especially has this look.
Really enjoy your content. Would love to see you guys watch Tiptoes starring Gary Oldman and Matthew McConaughey. Such a bizarre movie, that I'm sure you'd have fun with it 👍
TIPTOES!!!! The movie Hollywood tried to quickly sweep under the rug while no one was looking! 😆😆😆😂😂😂😂
@@jackflash8218 Yeah, it's So weird haha. I would genuinely love to hear how it got made, and how they persuaded pretty big name stars to take part 😂
@@captainstanhope4193 Gary Oldman is a FANTASTIC actor. That dude's body of work would make any actor damn proud. But I'll bet he wakes up some nights in a cold sweat, and a single word escapes his lips... "t i p t o e s!"
Sky Captain and the Psychotic Computer Ninjas of Tomorrow... and if you think the makeup and CG is bad... wait until you experience the acting! XD the movie was so bad it made Erin forget the premise of SBIG 🤣
“Erin doesn’t understand sbig” at the end was hilarious. I really enjoyed this episode.
I love Erin but I'm convinced she doesn't understand what so bad it's good means. Her choices are always so confusing.
Did they hire Neil Breens special effects team or birdemics? That smoke at the end 😂
I think Erin liked it better than she wanted to admit lol
I remember when this first came out. I hadn't even heard of it during its theatrical run, but my roommates swore by it once it was out on disc. They made it sound like the Citizen Kane of action films so I felt compelled to check it out. I couldn't finish it on my first viewing, and this episode of SBIG is the closest I've ever come to completing it. I literally went and read a book as a palate cleanser while they finished watching this mess, lol.
Are you still friends with your roommates?
@@JasonBrant I lost touch with them after I moved to a new state a few years later. Can we blame Ultraviolet for it? It's just about bad enough to deserve it, lol!
I love this movie. It's weird, campy, cheesy but it has a vision and a concept plus the action scenes are over the top and have style.
I disagree with everything you just said 🤣
Good God... Ultraviolet. I remember how much I was looking forward to this film at the time, because the director's previous work, Equilibrium, is a cult classic and one of my favorite movies. This abomination, however, was equal to torture. It's rare for every single element of a movie to be this bad. Not even Milla Jovovich's beauty can save this crap. I saw the agony on Erin and Jason's faces and I can say that I felt their pain completely.
This movie is peak cringe. A golden standard almost. Marvellous. I only wish there was more blood. Watched it like three times, once even while being sober. I love it. It is very on point and definitely has its own strong spirit.
I used to have a dog similar to that. Take your dog, imagine him all black, same size and kind of fur, and give him floppy ears. That was my dog, his name was Lucky. He was around when my pure white Malamute died and we got the brown dog in my profile pic. He had not one but two big brothers during his life. Unfortunately all three are no longer with us. Bear (profile dog) and Jake (Malamute) passed with natural causes and old age. Lucky, ironically given his name, sadly passed from stomach cancer.
The problem with the movie is that the producers came to the conclution that they didn't like the story so they edited the most of it away resulting in a collection of action scenes with no context.
Brilliant.
At least they could have make the action good...
I remember seeing this on DVD and then mistakenly thinking I had accidentally bought a pirate copy of a rough edit... then I realised the 'no... no, that's the actual movie!'
This is what you get when you cast models instead of actors.I've suffered through this multiple times (my wife has horrible taste), and i JUST NOW realize they're freaking vampires.
I admit I rather like Kathy Ireland in Alien From L. A., especially her (absolutely real) squeaky voice. Not a good movie but fun, and Kathy’s looks and her absurd voice really help make it enjoyable despite everything.
@@markiangooley there's only 3 thing I've seen Kathy Ireland in. Sports illustrated, "mom and dad save the world", and my pubescent dreams. Her, Pamela Anderson, Kelly LeBrock, and anna Nicole Smith made laundry day very awkward for about 6 years.
Milla Jovovich isn't that bad. She was alright in Joan of Arc. Also her music career is decent. Or so Ive heard.
@@adrianaslund8605I don't remember Joan of Arc that much but I thought she was decent in it.
A movie I disliked was something called Caliber 0.45 or whatever. I think she was okay in it but I remember NOT liking any character, including hers!
Milla is a good actor.
I remember seeing this when it came out and immediately I realized that the marketing campaign (which was substantial and relentless at the time) was where they spent all their effort and money
I bought this on DVD, I had such high hopes for it......this came out 7 years after the Matrix 😂
So insane.
@@JasonBrant And so Wimmer ... he got worse over time. Christian Bales character from Equlibrium looks almost like a normal human being compared to Mila ...
@@lordmontymord8701 at some point in the movie Bale was feeling... Mila didn't have that problem 🤣🤣
It looks like the bad effects like the soft filter were a deliberate choice where they wanted it to feel like you're inside a comic book. But trying to turn live action into a cartoon just hits the uncanny valley every time unless you go all the way and just hire actual animators and make it a cartoon.
Puppy Power!!! Please pet that doggy for the world of fur fans
We recorded this a few weeks ago. McKenzie crossed the Rainbrow Bridge last week.
@@JasonBrant 😭 Oh no 😭 I am so sorry for your loss in the family 💔 Always remember the good times and celebrate the life and love you shared 🐶❤
Thanks. We're missing her.
@@JasonBrant was this the last movie the puppy watched then?
Hopefully..... hopefully it saw SOMETHING better than....THIS before it passed.
Rip little puppy.
I think she makes one more appearance.
I remember seeing thus in my early 20s in the theater because I was so excited.
I was so pissed at how bad this was I was literally telling strangers to avoid it. It's the only time in my life I've developed a white-hot passion for something.
It was like what is the Aeon Flux animation and the movie Equilibrium had a baby who ate paint paint chips.
I always thought that thought was one of rejected scripts or productions for the Aeon Flux movie
I forgot who the Director is, but he did the impossible by making a movie, even shittier than something Milla’s husband would make.
Jason's reaction to Erin speaked volumes he's thinking I don't know this woman at all despite being married to her for many years.😂😂😂
This reaction was comedy gold Jason looked aghast throughout, I seen this at cinema & came out talking like Ozzy Osbourne 😂😂 "Sharon what the fuck was that bloody horrible".
I loved how Erin was going to walk out at the beginning if she had to watch Toxic Avenger 2... then she watched something far worse and gave it a good review. Jason's expression at the end said it all. Erin, you've curdled Cream.
Haha, I didn't know what to make of anything she was saying.
Sony went with a Hong Kong based CGI company (who actually did do video game work on the Final Fantasy series, though they also did a lot of Hong Kong movies as well) that hadn't handled anything this big before by the looks of it. The movie ended up having SIX times the amount of effects shots than was originally intended. With that and other heavy studio interference, it starts to make sense...
even if it had six times less, it wouldn't have been good. That actor sucks, Mia is only good in 5th element and thats because she has NO LINES lol well, no real lines
This makes Aeon Flux look like a masterpiece by comparison.
Yup. Aeon Flux is WAY better than this.
Catwoman is better than this and that is one saying no one ever says lightly
@@JasonBrantyou still think you're so funny, you and comment section are pathetic
I think that at first this was supposed to be a sequel to Equilibrium, but something happened and they had to scramble in rewrites.
Honestly Ill never understand how Milla keeps getting roles.
The director of all the resident evil movies is her husband
Most of them are directed, produced and written by her husband, the resident evil movies. She can actually act but why should she when hubby gives you jobs. She also can sing, she had an album in the nineties that did quite well.
Milla Jovovich's acting may be questionable, but her singing is actually genuinely good.
I loved her in Fifth Element and Kuffs. Her problem is she keeps doing movies that her Husband is making and he has no business making movies.
@@LOUISifer93 and before that Luc Besson who directed The Fifth Element
It's Mother's Day and after seeing this get uploaded, my momma's gonna have to wait an extra half an hour to see me. A man's gotta have his priorities in order and there ain't much that tops SBIG and Ultraviolet!.
They spent a lot also marketing this film and it crashed and burned. Over a half hour footage was removed by the studio and the director and Mila both disowned it. 30 million budget and made 31 million altogether, but probably spent close 90 million on marketing. If remember right her first film was Dazed & Confused, but it was The Fifth Element that got her noticed and after that she became the female action star time.
The Fifth Element was overrated garbage. Her role could have easily been played by any random Euro model and been indistinguishable. It was the Resident Evil series that somehow elevated her further, but ended up becoming a long running joke that wore out its welcome mat.
Dude...hats off to y'all for soldiering through this pile of crap. Of all of her movies (Since her husband directs and write most of them, could they be conisdered vanity projects?) this one was the most cringe worthy. I'm so glad you and Erin both noticed the crappy "filter" this was shot with. I actually took my DVD of this back to the store to exchange it for a new one thinking it was a bad copy when in fact it was INTENTIONAL. I think the entire budget went to Mila's outfits. Your reactions to Erin trying to describe why she liked this POS was comedic gold! Keep up the great work!
Major studio movies shouldn't get the So Bad It's Good moniker. Movies with budgets that big don't deserve that particular mulligan.
This was actually the followup to the same writer director's (Kurt Wimmer) Cult success film EQUILIBRIUM from 2002. In case you're still wondering the production budget was $30 million, so not quite BIG budget but still a decent sized budget for a Hollywood movie. Oh and Wimmer swears that this movie was meant to be a Sci-Fi update of a 1980 gangster film called GLORIA that starred Gena Rowlands.
I used to frequent a message board where the director of this film would sometimes bless us with his presence, I remember one notable occasion when he confessed to being high as a kite on some skunk weed and proceeded to write this very long post about how the Matrix Reloaded had got everything wrong and how he, the director of Equilibrium, would have done this and that and this etc. A few years later this came out and the mods of the board were very, very quiet about ol' KW, who destroyed his director career with this but did manage to hang on and produce some pretty terrible scripts for the Point Break and Total Recall remakes. The reactions on this vid were great, I wish though you'd shown us what you were reacting to, as there is so much terrible stuff in this film from what I (sort of) remember. edit: it was rumored on that message board that Mila and KW were intimately involved during the production of the film and I recall an interview around this time of her pouting about how he wouldn't let her edit the film, FFS this whole thing is so funny to remember.
"Mom, can I go see Aeon Flux?"
"NO. We have Aeon Flux at home."
😂
That soften filter was an early 2000s thing, I remembered playing two video games with cutscenes using real actors and they did that same thing, for this movie they wanted to give it the whole comic book animation vibe, the Speed Racer movie did it wayyy better and that movie used same amount of cgi as this, and as for the action scenes, the movie Equilibrium came out years before Ultraviolet and did the same kind of action scenes so much better
That was like an insane mix of The Matrix Reloaded, Equilibrium and Blade, what a bizarre movie! And your reaction to Erin, the way you looked straight at the camera, I re-watched that a few times, absolutely hilarious! 😄
At some point, please watch the British classic "Hawk the Slayer" and play the Hawk the Slayer drinking game:
- SIP your drink when you see skulls
- SIP your drink when you see fog
- SIP your drink when you hear the Hawk the Slayer theme
- (optional) Down your drink when you see all of the above together
I managed 30 minutes but that's because I chose rum and cokes and my friends chose beer.
I remember seeing this announced on theaters back in the day. I also remember it being a colossal flop.
And look, I can look past the flaws of a low budget movie, but when a bad movie has cost more money than I'll ever see in my lifetime, it's just sad.
That "END" text might as well have been comic sans 😂
Computer animation effects at its earliest
I noticed something and now I can't unsee it 🤣 The guy at 6:33 in the background looks like the hand of the guy in the front showing the middle finger, if you squint your eyes you can see it, I was looking at my other monitor and couldn't stop laughing when I noticed.
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Sooooo...I saw the headline and thought........"How come the younger version of me only made it about 25-30 minutes into this film before shutting it off???
You guys have JOGGED MY MEMORY!!! MY GOD!!!!
Jason I have a question, are you in film school?
Also: What 2 movies did you actually walk out of?
I've walked out of 2 movies that I can remember.
1. "The Corsican Brothers" w/Cheech n' Chong
2. "Hart's War" probably the beginning of a series of terrible movies starring Bruce Willis. Just..... unwatchable....
As others have said, the director directed Equilibrium, which was a GREAT dystopian action movie with Christian Bale. How did this happen? How? How? Or was Equilibrium a complete fluke on the director's part?
This being released in theatres has floored me 😅
What two movies did you walk out on Jas?
Heyyy, you guys found a new rabbit hole! Milla Jovovich, bad-CG movies should be their own catalog in the same way that Sifu Seagal movies are. Not that they're as terrible or as numerous, as Seagal movies, but it's remarkable how consistent they are.
Ultraviolet is what you get when you try to cross Blade with Equilibrium...as directed by Uwe Boll.
Uwe Boll made more entertaining film than this POS. Probably made Neo Nazi rescuing puppies. You know for plot twist (Uwe’s sense of humor)
You should do "Hercules in New York" - one if not THE first movie of Arnold Schwarzenegger and he won the role for winning a Mr. Universe title. This movie is soooooo amazing. And it exists in two different english versions.... one where Arni is synched and one where you can hear him speaking and of course you should watch the later one 😁
10:23 Exactly. Just watch it with the sound off and skip through anything that looks like a dialogue scene and it’s kind of fun to watch.
The same can be said for the director's earlier film, Equilibrium.
@@RevanAlaire that the movie that this movie reminds me of
Lol, the hilarious part is that the original UltraViolet comic, was stylized Ultra-Violence. The movie was actually on theme for the comic.
The effects were mostly garbage, and fight scenes were flashy because they were trying to show the characters as moving at near bullet speeds.
I remember the live action Æon Flux came out around the same time, and it’s eerie, how similar both films are, dealing with strange, overly designed futuristic, dictatorships, being fought by a beautiful kung fu lady in mostly black
Maybe I have 💩 tastes but I thought Eon Flux was so much better...
Yogurt and bananas for a hangover. Greek yogurt, it's more sour because more anti-biotics and iodine, also more protein for muscle recovery, that's important if you've ever barfed your guts out after binging and felt like your ribs are broken or just fell asleep in an awkward position, and it's gluten free. I was an alcoholic for many years, trust me, it works better than most other hangover "cures" and tastes pretty good.
After this movie, I realized I was an adult. I walked out of the Movie theater at the Arundel mills mall and was profoundly disappointed that I had wasted almost 2 hours of my day seeing this. It was the first time in my life I realized that my time had value. This movie was aweful
The guy who wrote this also wrote Salt, which I'm sure Erin will love and he also wrote Double Trouble with the Barbarian Brothers. I did like Equilibrium though. He also Directed One Man's Justice with Brian Bosworth.
Why have "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" during the ad?
It actually fits perfectly.
This was "After Last Season" levels of CGI/Clip Art/Finger-painting and animation. Everything looked like it came out of a demo CD for a Windows 95 collection of Clip Art. A lot of this reminded me of "The Amazing Bulk".
Kurt Wimmer also directed One Man's Justice aka One Tough Bastard with Brian Bosworth. All I remember this movie was pretty stupid and the main bad guy Bruce Payne was so awesome here looks like some anime character with a long hair and earring (and he was FBI agent btw). I think you should check it.
Well Bruce Payne is awesome in everything.
It seems like an attempt to make a low budget ripoff of Resident Evil, but vampires are added to the story, to give its own twist. It's just an excuse to have Mila fight hordes, like a video game. It kinda seems that was what the creators were going for: To create a video game style movie, that isn't based on a particular video game. A comic book theme was also added, to give it an additional excuse to not adhere to reality. I think someone saw the Ruby series of Ati tech demos, and thought the idea would make a good movie. The story was added later, once they "fleshed" out the character.
Her chief super power seems to be the ability to change the color of her outfit, like the receptionist in Total Recall. I had forgotten how bad the visual effects were. I can understand the final rating, though. Sometimes, it's fun to watch someone being traumatized by a truly bad movie. If it's not making you squirm yourself, then you can derive enjoyment by watching the film with someone.
Theory my hubby and I were discussing.
Could the "bad (cgi, effects, etc...)" perhaps be intentional to give it a "comic book coming to life" vibe?
The only other viable excuses then would be laziness or incompetence. 😅
As sad as it is to say this, I feel like the application of synthetic-looking filters onto Milla’s naturally good looks is a fairly good metaphor for so much of her career. She seems to have so much talent as a performer (did her own stunts in at least the original Resident Evil, speaks several languages, created a surprisingly good Kate Bush-esque pop-folk album as a teenager that I actually own on CD), and yet she keeps starring in these horribly-written movies that don’t really do her justice in the end. Granted, a lot of them were directed by her husband (who she actually started dating after they worked together on the aforementioned original Resident Evil, which came out four years before this one), and I guess she must have fun acting in them, but I still can’t help but feel like she’s let a lot of her potential be wasted over the last two decades.
I thought I heard Jason say this movie was around 30 M? It sure doesn't show on screen. This isn't even a ...so bad it's good, it's just bad. An embarrassment to everyone involved.
If I recall correctly, this was supposed to be an Aeon Flux movie, so excellent call on the comparison!
there was ALSO an Aeon Flux movie out around the same general timeframe.
Oh really?
@@JasonBrant that's what I remember the LA scuttlebutt at the time was (I grew up in LA). Definitely notable that the Aeon Flux movie came out a year before and was, while pretty stinky, not *this* bad
"Doesn't Understand SBIG- Erin" Nice touch at the end there.
This movie is a storyboard artist drogue trip.
“ this will look cool”
-what the story?
“ visual eye candy “
- what???
“ kids will love the Colours”
- what?????
“ we got Milla Jovovich”
- I’m in
Ah Ultraviolet, a film that both Mila and the director disowned after Sony took a huge dumb on it on the editing room, even going as far to locking them out of the process. Original film was 2 hours long and R rated. They also released the film with unfinished effects. Sony pictures in a nutshell.
I really liked Kurt Wimmer's prior film, Equilibrium. So I gave this a chance when it came bundled with my PS3 back in the day. What an introduction to HD movies at home. Eye-gougingly bad CG and softening filter, weird framerate, nonsensical-to-nonexistent story, and some of the worst action choreography and direction I've seen in a high-budget movie.
shame on me but for a microsecond i thought this movie was written by david hayter (snake) and i had to pause to google it, thank god NO, i remember him saying in the early 2000s he was a part of the writing team that made an action movie with a female protagonist and it was kinda started to be shoot but studio was afraid it would flop as well after eon flux flopped at the cinemas...so i thought that someone took the few shots they had before it was shut down and cgi'ed it to released it