Sony Announces Second Day-and-Date Blu-Ray Release with 'Ultraviolet'

Mon Apr 17, 2006 at 09:03 PM ET

Sony has announced their second Blu-Ray disc title to debut simultaneously with its standard DVD release.

On June 27, the studio will unleash the recent Milla Jovovich action-thriller 'Ultraviolet' in a new Unrated Director's Cut. No supplemental features or disc specs have yet to be released, though the film will be presented in its original 2.35:1 theatrical aspect ratio, and as with all of Sony's current Blu-Ray releases, will be encoded on an HD-30 dual-layer disc at full 1080p video resolution.

The release is the second day-and-date with DVD Blu-Ray release, following 'Underworld: Evolution,' which Sony will debut on June 6.

Sony has priced the disc at its new release MSRP of $38.95.

Obviously I am in the minority here but I really quite enjoyed this movie (for what it was). I will be picking it up that is for sure. Its not as good as Equilibrium but it was quite enjoyable for me.

i still may pick it up.. I will read some reviews for the unrated version first. It may be a '3 for $30' at Hollywood video purchase.

same here. I enjoyed the movie. then again I wasn't expecting much other than a fun sci-fi/action flick.

then again I haven't seen Equilibrium, so I wasn't able to constantly compare the two. probably will be picking it up as well.

Exactly. I thought it was pretty clear from the trailer that that's what this movie was going to be.

I have read many reviews of this movie, but I still don't have my questions answered. How are the action scenes filmed?
1. Is it filmed in a quick cut MTV annoying style?
2. Is there really no originality or repeated Equilibrium style of fight scenes in this movie?
3. Is there any gun kata in this movie?

I hear a lot of negativity towards this film and Aeon Flux. I agree that Aeon Flux was totally boring and bad. But Aeon Flux had one awesome scene when she and Sophie Okonawa try to sneak past the Little Shop of Horrors dagger garden...So basically, Aeon Flux had one cool scene. How many cool scenes did Ultraviolet have, regardless of how bad the movie is?

I guess I fall into the group of people that enjoyed movies like The Rock or Con Air, and thusly, also enjoyed Aeon Flux, and will pick up Ultraviolet.

I also immensely enjoyed Equilibrium and enjoy pretty much any movie that Milla's in (but not Milla herself, if that makes sense) so that's another reason to at least try this flick.

Apparently the original cut was close to 2 hours - I'd really like to see that.

I just rented the Unrated Extended Edition from work tonight and was only able to stomach 25 minutes of this flaw fest and abomination of Sci Fi before shutting it off.

From the "Sky Captain" soft filter and the score changing every 30 seconds, to forced dialogue, very bad CGI (yes, even worse than "A Sound of Thunder"), and a haggard "explanation" crammed into a 3 minute opening segment, this was just a laugh a minute.

Wow. Just..wow.

I thought this movie was highly entertaining for its genre, unlike AEON FLUX which was totally dry and boring. Ultraviolet, at least, was total eye candy and the acting was more interesting than bad. The action scenes were not bad and the best filmed action scene is when Violet takes on the whole Asian gang shooting at her. That was the most original filmed scene. It's too bad there weren't more of those as there were in Equilibrium. But overall, it's a B-movie comic book flick. That's all it was trying to be. It wasn't taking it so damn seriously as in Aeon Flux. Eventhough there is no Ultraviolet comic book, as a comic-book movie (I assume the director is using this movie for his portfolio so that some producer will hire him to direct a big-budget comic book flick) this movie was a whole lot better than ELEKTRA, PUNISHER, BLADE 3 for example...

"Aeon Flux" excelled in my opinion because it wasn't as needlessly complicated and over-produced as "Ultraviolet". Every single aspect of "Ultraviolet" was an exercise in overindulgence. Score, action, "acting", dialogue, characters. You name it.

How many Sci Fi movies have to take place in a post apocalyptic future world where someone has to be rescued to save humanity before someone realizes they all suck.

I always figured a lot of the CGI was suposed to look a little fake. It's not like they airbrushed everyone's faces to make it more realistic.

It was choppy and it stood out, like how you can see outlines of weather forecasters infront of green screens. Atleast the menus were engaging and fun to look at. Granted, there was no dialogue in those, which was a plus.

Interesting take on the two movies. My opinion on them was the reverse of yours. I found Ultraviolet to be interesting and visually appealing while Aeon Flux I thought was boring and actually more poorly written and acted.

"Ultraviolet" had too many gimmicks going for it, visually and in the script. "Aeon Flux" was different in that it had a nature element to it, which is rare in Sci Fi. Not only that, but the picture itself was stunning, meaning the clarity and lighting.

Do you mind if I use that as my signature?

Please do!

I couldn't stomach even half of this movie. I rented it...and I'm glad that's all I did.

The CGI was TERRIBLE!

= J

Wow, that is an amazingly accurate statement and very sig worthy. I gave this movie a shot last night and it was awful. I was already going to make an allowance for bad acting and no story, but the CGI was pitiful as well. This film had absolutely nothing at all to offer an audience. I honestly can't think of a better Blu-ray launch title. Big hype that delivers absolutely nothing.

The tag line for this mess should have been:
"The film that makes Van Helsing look like Citizen Kane by comparison"

I just watched this last night and I can't believe I didn't hate it. I think the whole comic credits helped a bit, cause I viewed it like this is how they wanted the world to look like.....very cyber and comic booky. Not saying it's a great movie but well worth my 4 buck rental.

Wow, this movie was BAD.

Well, there went about 30 minutes of my life that I'll never get back. I feel so let down!

It commits a horrible crime that should be punishable by the firing squad.
Trying to make an ultra violent movie into a PG13 rating.
Endless streams of enemies that apparently made of glass or stone.
You can't have it both ways, it just doesn't work. I can't feel any sense of danger with that sword when people just faint if it touches them.
And the fight scenes needed some more practice. You could literally see the "ninjas" waiting for the old gal Milla to do her jump flip.

And I would be the happiest man alive if I never have to see "weird kid" in another film. He seems to have cornered the market on spooky looking kid roles.

That was one of the HUGE factors that turned me off. Spin-kick to one of those THX-1138 lookalike cops, and it looks like rock or concrete chunks fly out of them?!

That was Sony's doing. This film was made as a violent R-rated film (people getting chopped up during the fights, blood, etc... and Sony cut it into a PG-13 in hopes of recouping at least some of their money. Oddly, in the 'Unrated' version they didn't add any blood back in, they just added some new scenes.