I’m guessin this is some kinda manga/anime story as origin? At least the opening credits set it up that way, and I guess in that framing it does the job. My lack of cares are up front here. The 17 keystrokes or so to type into the Google aren’t even worth enough to check the character count or the results. A lot of flashy graphics and outlandishly unreals fight sequences that piece together the thinnest of plots and most saturated of colors. Not just in Violet. In Ultraviolet.
Technological advancements has led to the “unintentional” outbreak of a weaponized vampirism kinda deal. But the Humans clamped down on that pretty hard, and now the last of the Hemoglowphins or whatever they are called to not be called Vampires do seem to be on their last legs. The Blood Wars are pretty brutal! But Planet Express Classified Courier Lela has a surprise up her sleave for those fascist corporatist dirtbags! Oh, if she could only have saved her child at birth, though. Tragic. And thin. So thin.
This isn’t Kubrick. It’s not trying to be. It IS a CGI-heavy, somehow rated PG-13 violence-fest that has all the signs of a failed FPS game that got resurrected back into life as a movie script. The pre-internet camera smoothing filters on main character Milla Jovovich here make her particularly creepy. Her Woman Goddess fighting skills defy logic. Her Motherly Instincts seem to be stronger than steel (despite being a stone-cold nihilistic killer). Visually, it is pretty stylish and frenetic. It’s very colorful though. I guess that’s why they named it after a color. Because. Fuck. Even the pre-teens this had to be aimed at would have thought it was pure cheese. Bad cheese, not the good stuff. Or more accurately, mediocre cheese. Part of the reason I watched this was due to a cool earlier film by director Wimmer starring Batman #6 Patrick Bateman called Equilibrium. While that one’s plot is just as absurd, it at least allows Sean Bean to live longer than the first 5 minutes of the film.
