YMMV / Ultraviolet (2006)

• Anvilicious: The awfulness of the systemic discrimination and rounding up of the hemophages is hammered on in one particular scene where a family of hemophages is seen dressed up as Hasidic Jews, complete with biohazard patches.
• Awesome Moments:
  • Daxus gets an Evil Is Cool moment when he takes out the top-level hemophage soldiers, without spilling a drop of his filled-to-the brim cup of joe.
  • The library fight. Violet takes out a hundred mooks with her gun-swords.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: The strip search, featuring a totally nude Milla Jovovich. There's even porno music for crying out loud!
• Better on DVD: A bit, at least. The unrated version of the film reincorporates nine minutes of cut footage that flesh out the backstory of the hemophages and Violet's character.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The Blood Chinois. They are a random Asian gang that randomly appear in the movie, have no apparent motive and backstory besides "You're in our territory", set up a ridiculous action scene, and are mentioned precisely once later when Nerva's goons try to intimidate Violet by reminding her they aren't Blood Chinois, as if we knew enough about them to use them as a gauge of strength.
• Complete Monster: Vice Cardinal Ferdinand Daxus, ruthless leader of the Arch-Ministry government, initially created the virus that led to the birth of the hemophages. Daxus initiates a purge of Hemophages, wiping them out to nearly the final few members of the species after subjecting many of them to horrible experiments. Cloning himself constantly, Daxus experiments with the clones to find a way to create a new plague to use on humans since with the hemophages almost gone, he fears his authority will slip away. Planning on dissecting his latest clone Six, Daxus reveals himself as a hemophage by the movie's end, willing to destroy whatever he has to, even his own kind, in order to keep his grip on power.
• Critical Backlash: The film was trashed by critics and audiences alike and you will hardly find someone who calls it good, but there are people who believe it to be more entertaining than it is often credited as, at least as a Guilty Pleasure or a comic book-esque fountain of Narm Charm. The fact that Executive Meddling released the film literally unfinished and killed the career of a relatively promising action director also attracts some sympathy.
• Faux Symbolism: The prologue shows hemophage victims wearing black hats and clothing, being harassed by skinheads, and herded into camps. This sequence serves no narrative purpose and is never referenced again. Presumably because after the opening sequence, almost all the hemophages were executed. As Violet herself says, "The ones that survived… started fighting back."
• Fight Scene Failure:
  • Whilst Storming the Castle, Violet faces one room full of Mooks in pure-white NBC gear, which just makes the Bloodless Carnage all the more blatant. Combined with relatively tame choreography, this fight is a particular low point in the film.
  • The duel between Violet and Daxus has its problems, too. The idea is awesome — a Sword Fight in total darkness, lit only by the fact that the swords are on fire — but because they actually filmed it straight, without employing Hollywood Darkness, you can't make much sense of what's going on.
  • The final fight with The Blood Chinois is one, too. It's more or less the same shot over and over.
• Fridge Horror: Six is said, by Daxus, to be "Number Six in a set of eight" clones. So where are Numbers 7 and 8? Were they killed when Violet blew up the Archministry at the end of the film?
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The film did well enough in Japan to receive its own anime, Ultraviolet: Code 044, by Madhouse of all studios.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Milla herself is the reason many caught the movie.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • The Ministry deliberately terminated Violet's pregnancy. She doesn't know this. It's a blink-and-you-won't-hear-it moment on the soundtrack—when she escapes with the "package", a voice identifies her as "a plague victim whose pregnancy was forcibly terminated…"
• Narm: The flaming sword scene ends with a goddamn squirt gun being brought in.
• Narm Charm: Both the film's highs and lows can make it a rather fun flick. Hilariously, the official anime's opening song is named "Guilty Pleasure".
• Special Effects Failure: The film's extensive visual effects were never completed as intended due to Executive Meddling, and it SHOWS. Several scenes, including the infamous motorcycle chase, use incomplete temp-renders that were never meant to be seen outside of the editing room.

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