The Holtonian

One good Sci-Flick deserves a bad one

So wife out tonight, I rented two movies that were on my rent while wife is away list: Serenity and Ultra Violet. Ultra Violet was actually the movie I had planned to rent, actually I planned to rent a horror flick but chickened out. And let me tell you Ultra Violet is just about as bad as everyone has made it out to be.

You know usually I can find something fun and entertaining in the dumbest of action flicks, but this one was bad except for two fight scenes that were matrix esque except they lacked logic. Well clarification: in the Matrix its not reality thus reality can be bent/broken... that makes sense to me. Ultra Violet is a vampire who dodges bullets like neo in a normal future based reality... that doesn't make sense to me.

It was very comic booky in its portrayal, the dialogue was comic booky, aka pretty weak and dumb. Mila Jockovich's lines were down right awful and poorly delivered. Makes you long for the days of Katinka in Zoolander. Also they seemed to fade to black all the time... well that's scenes over fade to black, cue up next scene.... no transitions or anything. The plot was Aeon Fluxish (the movie version) with an oppresive regime doing its darndest to keep the little man down. Whats funny was this movie made no attempt to sort of base itself in the surrounding world. Its like the main characters were in their own universe that was self contained. So it was big old piece of crap for lack of a better explanation.

Serenity on the other hand was one of the best sci-fi flicks I've seen in a long time. I'd say its better than any of the new star wars and its characters, though space cowboyish and reminscent of Hans Solo, were all pretty cool. The two main good guys in the movie kind of play two different versions of Hans Solo.

But the story was good, the effects were pretty amazing, good action, funny dialogue (Leia: 'I love you' Hans: 'I know' type funny). Definately worth the price of a rental, and maybe even a good 10 dollar or less buy. I might watch it with the wife when she comes back if she's up for it.