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Ultraviolet (2006)
If you love action, stay away from this movie.
DO NOT GO SEE THIS MOVIE!!!!! If you've seen the trailers for Ultraviolet then you've seen all the action you get from this movie.
The acting for this movie is as good as a children's' kindergarden play. The lines seem forced, the seriousness seems like the actors are about to start laughing after the line is given. The whole story is about a mother's maternal instinct to save a kid. It's not about saving the world/ taking over the world/ defeating the forces of evil/ insert cliché plot here.
As for the actual action....If you've seen Equillibrium and are expecting a triumphant return of the Gun-Kata fighting style...You're going to be disappointed. There are seriously only 3 gun fights in the whole movie. 3 that you actually get to see. Only 2 are Violets character doing the shooting. Anytime there is going to be an action scene with the ultra violent ( heh) Gun- Kata, the camera cuts to another room. You hear the gunshots going off and people screaming in pain, the characters in the next room hear it and converse like its not happening. Then it cuts back to Violet in a room of dead bodies.
SPOILER!!!!! A scene is borrowed from The Matrix, where Neo and Trinity go into the Lobby with a coat full of guns and proceed to tear stuff up. The same thing is done in UV where she enters a lobby and gets scanned for weapons and they find shes loaded, Guards rush in, she draws her weapons...Camera cuts to another room...
END SPOILERS!!! "I was born into a world you may not understand." The part you wont understand is why doesn't any one bleed... When you get shot, stabbed, cut, fall on the side walk you bleed. The enemies in UV NEVER BLEED!!! Everything from being shot in the face, decapitated, cut in half, run through, etc. No one ever bleeds EXCEPT Violet, and its only cause she hurt herself!!! The visuals reminded me too much of Sky Captain and the world of Tomorrow. Kinda blurry, lots of bright lights, but with added color. There is so much bright color it will start to bug you a bit. It did for me at least. The special effects were decent, when something blew up it looked at least a bit real, when buildings windows were smashed they did a nice job.
I give this movie a 3 out of 10 cause they show it off to be this super cool action flick, when its really just a sappy PG-13 rated crap fest...
DO NOT GO SEE THIS MOVIE!!!!!
Zombiez (2005)
Don't waste your time
I feel sorry for the guy before me who paid $3.50 for this movie, we paid $2.09...
I've seen just about every zombie movie ever made. I've read all sorts of zombie books. And I've played all sorts of zombie games. I know zombies. This movie is anything BUT a zombie movie.
First off the horrible production value, looks like they made this with a personal camera, and the acting sucked. The "zombies" first start out by beating people with meat cleavers or a sickle. Stupid? Yea i thought so too. Then instead of eating them, they tear at the clothing and squish raw meat in their hands.
I understand that for a movie like this the SFX budget is maybe $20, which they used to buy the sickles and meat cleavers...and even the occasional Dollar store "Pirate Sword", but at least make the violence look decent.
The story makes no sense. Starts out with zombies beating people, then the main female character "Joe" going home to her husband and for some reason stripping down to her under pants and sitting on a bed talking, then sleeping for 5 minutes to have "zombies" break into their HUGE apartment.
This is where the story gets confusing. Joe is attacked by a "Zombie" and taken to the factory she works in while a guy is torturing someone with a Power Drill. THen while looking for a phone, Joe wanders into the forest...A FOREST IN JERSEY!!!! Why would a phone be in the forest? Don't be fooled by the box art for this movie. There are no staggering zombies, no sewer zombies, hell turns out they aren't even zombies. They are more like gang members who plan to take over the streets by killing people and selling their remains in a pie! No I'm not kidding To keep from ruining this steaming pile of a movie I'm going to end it here. If you still wanna see this movie, buy a gun to shoot your DVD player then yourself for watching this movie.
My rating wouldn't fit here cause the IMDb scale only goes to 1...It deserves far less...