Ultraviolet

Directed in 2006 by Kurt Wimmer, this action movie tells the story of a beautiful hemophage infected with a virus that gives her superhuman powers who has to protect a boy, who's thought to be carrying antigens that would destroy akk heophages.

It stars Milla Jovovich as Violet, Cameron Bright as the boy called Six, and William Fichtner as a nerdy scientist called Garth.

So, let's begin with the review: 

Those of you who have been reading my blog so far surely know that I'm not all that picky with the movies I watch. I believe that there's a moment in which nearly every movie can be entertaining. I don't say good, I say entertaining. Because that's what movies are there for: to ease  you into a new world, troubles that have little to do with you, action and fantasy and whatever. There's a good moment to watch nearly everything if you're in the right mood. 

I can't think of a mood in which you would like to inflict this movie upon your brain. 

The acting is crap. Pure and total crap. The onlyone that can be saved - if barely - is William Fichtner, who's cute, nice and has about 2 minutes of screentime. I mean, come on! MIlla Jovovich did an amaizing job in The Fifth Element, kicked ass in the Resident Evil saga.. Hell, she did even do a good job in the Three Musketeers! What went wrong here? The child is also awfull. I usually don't like movies with child, but this one couldn't even act! 

So, if the acting sucks, maybe a movie can be saved by either the story or the looks. The story is... non-existent. Well, I'm lying here, it does exist, but it's just some thin and translucent excuse to make Violet run around showing her flat belly and wielding a sword. 

Good, usually people wielding swords can safe a movie. Take Thor as an example. The story sucks, but he runs around with a hammer and you have some fun watching him getting hit time and time again by Natalie Portman... After 0.3 seconds of Ultraviolet you grow to hate the swordwielding. The visual effects are computer generated. If you're going to say that there are a lot of good movies - a lot of really good series - with computer-generated graphics, and that those are really good, I agree. The trouble is not that they are computer generated. It's that you can see the computer doing it. It's really badly done, so that you can't believe one second of it. And the action scenes are so paste together that they loose all their flow and just seem fake. 

One of the most impressive sequences, in which Violet jumps from a building and throws the motorcycle she's driving into an helicopter, has far more effect in P!nk's videoclip "There you go", released in 2002.

There's one last thing that drives me mad in this movie and if somebody has read the comics, watched the series or just knows, I'd be really grateful: what's the matter with A) Violet's hair and B)Violet's clothing. Why does it change shape and collors? Where the writers so laizy they couldn't decide in one hair collor... or a motive for it's magically changing. 

And the hint towards the Clockworck Orange is ridiculous and out of place, that movie is good, this one shouldn't even try to remind you about it, it only manages to drag it further down. Sorry, but somebody had to say it.

ULTRAVIOLET TRAILER

So, if you where considering watching this. I don't think you want anymore. It's not even good as background noise. You see this on TV and change channels. It will spare you a an hour and a half you can use doing anything else. 

Iron Man

Directed in 2008 by Jon Favreau, this superhero movie starts when a wealthy industrialist, Tony Stark, is forced to build an armored suit after a life-threatening incident, he decides to use its technology to fight against evil as well as shutting his weapon industry. 

The movie stars Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/IronMan, Gwyneth Patlrow as Pepper Potts, his assistant, and Terrence Howard as Rhodey.

I just jumped into this after watching The Avengers and loving Tony Stark/ IronMan. I wasn't expecting much, but the characteristic charm that I loved in The Avengers, and I have to say I wasn't left down. 

So the movie isn't your multiple-oscar-winning-deep-thought-and-metaphysical movie. This is just for entertainment. The plot is rather simple, yet consistent, the evil guys are obvious, but intelligent, the battles are explosion-filled with loads of glass flying around. It's cool and the visual effects are just magnificent. 

The best part of the movie is Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark. For those who don't know IronMan let me give you a heads up about the main character: there where other superheroes get knocked on the head and pushed towards helping people in need, altruism, being kind, being responible, etc, knight in shinging armour, etc - which in the end makes them rather lame, obvious and predictible as well as boring, Tony Stark is selfish, narcisistic, stinking rich, works developing weapons, drinks too much, cares too little... He's very happy with the system and ignores all the rules, doing whatever he wants whenever he wants to. And that's great. He has a terrible character and it's funny. It's refreshing and makes you love the guy, even though you would wanna kill him if you ever met him in person. 

Which is probably what Pepper Potts - played by Gweneth Paltrow - wants to do more than once. She's Tony Starks assistant/motherfigure/person-for-everything. She and her boss are in love, but they kind of keep denying it. There are very few akward moments due to their mutual feelings. 

That's another cool thing about the movie. Unlike most superhero movies I've seen like Spiderman, Superman, Batman, Tony Starks love life has a very low relevance in this movie. Whenever Pepper's life is threatened she either kicks the crap out of the threat, or is safed by Iron Man. That's it. There's no big sacrifice from IronMan so that Pepper won't be in danger anymore. That would be out of character and probably hasn't crossed his mind. 

The battles are pretty well done, with stunning effects and magnificent technology. 

I really, like the ending. The very end of the movie in which Tony Stark is confronted by the press and has been told not to reveal his secret identity.... You can imagine how Tony Stark answers to the press questions. 

IRONMAN TRAILER

So if you like superheroes, check this one out. If you don't, check it out anyway, there's fire, robots, plus a hot guy runing around in sleveless-tight-shirts. That alone should be worth it. 

Priest

This movie was directed in 2011 by Scott Charles Steward and tells the story of a priest who disobeys church law to track down the vampires who kidnapped his daughter. 

It stars Paul Bettany - who also played Michael in the movie Legion [2009] - in the leading role; Cam Giganet as Hicks and Maggie Q as Priestess. 

There's nothing much to say about the movie. It's an action movie with a strange view on religion that has the pretension of being critic with the religious autocracy; very similar to Legion. 

The disign of the city is chaotic and ugly, whereas the country around the city is a dessert. All is dominated by the color brown, black and grey. 

The vampires are in this movie a completly different species that's hunted down by priests - which are humans with special powers of speed, strength and precision. They're rather ugly and slimy and nasty looking, eliminating all the beauty of the mythological creature.

The plot of the movie is predictible and stupid. The reasons given by the Priests bosses seem weak, a mere excuse for making the guy a fugitive. The action scenes are a little bit exagerated, but not too much, so they're still enjoyable. 

PRIEST TRAILER

All in all it's not that bad. But if you want to watch a religious themed movie, go and check Legion out. It has the same main actor, angels with wings, better designed fiends, and a somewhat better plot and dialogues - not a lot better, but still...