To be honest I remember watching this one when it came out and decided to watch it again now about 15 years later and I'm surprised it didn't get more ridicule when it came out. I remember people disliked it and I've seen plenty of worse movies, but the movie is all over the place with bad acting, silly and goofy scenes that don't really make any sense and seem to randomly jump from one to another and an asinine story. My favourite probably being the "love story" that comes out of nowhere during that last third of the movie between Milla Jovovich and William Fichtner who has previously barely had any screen time in the movie.

"Why won't you ever let anyone in" says William Fichtner looking goofy as hell with the fake vampire teeth

"Because.....these moments.....as beautiful as they are.....they're evil when they're gone" says Milla Jovovich while staring at something(?) not Fichtner during this very dramatic and sudden "romantic" scene that apparently ends as suddenly as it began.

It's a shame really because Kurt Wimmer did do one great movie in my opinion and that is 'Equilibrium', but everything after that......yikes! Now apparently this one was supposed to be longer, but the studio pressured him to edit it to about 90 minutes, and it would be nice to see the "directors cut", but I think he would have a very had time making this into a good movie even with additional footage.

Great movie... if you get the joke. Most people didn't. Hint: the opening credits feature a ton of Ultraviolet comic book covers. There never was an Ultraviolet comic book. Get it? The entire movie is a send-up of the comic book genre. Deliberately bordering on absurd and campy. Not quite satire but definitely tongue in cheek. Fun stuff. Great eye candy which is what comic books are.

The reaction to this film was a lot like the initial reaction to Starship Troopers (a hilarious action/war/propaganda satire), or All About Steve (a satire of the romcom genre). Audiences don't understand when the filmmakers are having some cheeky fun, in this case even when it's laid out in the opening credits.