Ultraviolet

Comics used to level coffee tables have better stories

By BRETT MICHEL | March 8, 2006

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ULTRAVIOLET: Watching Gloria inspired someone to make this!?

“My name is Violet, and I was born into a world you may not understand.” As the end credits rolled, I could see her point. Presented as an adaptation of a comic book that never was (comics that I keep on the back of my toilet have more coherent plots) and set in the 21st century, the story — make that action, since that’s all there is — centers on the humans (led by Nick Chinlund) and their hated enemies (and heroes of the film), the Hemophages. The Hemophages are sort of sketched in as vampires. (They have fangs, you see.) Their savior, Violet (Milla Jovovich), uses super-human (“Hemophagic”?) strength and gravity-defying agility to retrieve a nine-year-old boy named “Six” (Cameron Bright, this year’s Dakota Fanning), who holds the key to . . . something. Director Kurt Wimmer claims to have taken inspiration from John Cassavetes’s Gloria. Gena Rowlands should sue.

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