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Point of No Return (1993)
Too Bad For Bridget
A terrible Americanized re-make of a decent Luc Besson film ("La Femme Nikita"). Luc's film is better since it doesn't rely on the graphic violence for the plot to be made and the storyline is more believable with the actions scenes being more plausible. The fact that any originality in "The Point Of No Return" is lacking made this film even more the worse. Now don't get me wrong here, Bridget is a decent actress, but never in all the years has she really stole my thoughts as to being top notch. To be honest, she just has that adorable girl look that does OK as an actress (she had a big legacy to follow anyway, considering her aunt and father).
But the script in this disaster did her an injustice in any event, since it was downright awful. No director and especially an actor, could have worked doing ad-lib with this script (Badham isn't really that good of a director in the first place). The stunt scenes were so implausible as to be laughable, they should leave those kinds of scenes for the James Bond type movies since they fit in well with that genre.
I need not say anymore, as I am not trying to be negative as much as realistic; I simply couldn't think of even one positive at all.
Ultraviolet (2006)
Pretty Bad!
Well, I have to say that this is one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life. Fortunately it was simply on TV and nothing was on and I had nothing to do, so I don't feel it a waste of time. I watched it in HD, and it looked real nice and some of the effects were cool. But the realism to the story was beyond belief. Yet another movie that has the essence of the holocaust, in that an eradication of a group of people who feel and think, because they are not like the humans. That is getting old also.
I mean, com'on we can do better with stories than revisited themes that state the same message over and over again. Also ridiculous, Ultra uses guns that shoot bullets, yet Ultra can make them materialize from her wrists?? You'd think some kind of weapon that is more futuristic that materializes from the body itself, would be the norm, instead of bullet producing guns. The city looked pretty cheesy, but the effects of the fighting looked OK. The plot was non-existent as it was one way throughout the movie. Almost totally no sub-plots that would have (maybe) helped the story along, but this was not the case, and the acting not even worthy of a razzie award.
The one redeeming thing I did enjoy, was looking at Milla, she is a very attractive woman, and sad that she did this role that I don't think was her fault, but mostly of that of the director and the story writer. Her Resident Evil movies were OK, and I really liked her in The Fifth Element.
Milla is definitely capable of acting, and even one of the better fem fatales that can do action movies; I only hope that she can get hooked up with the right story and director the next time she does another action flick. I do wonder what the Catholic Church felt about this movie, since the evil dude was called the "Vice Cardinal", and the force he ran was definitely religious in theme, all the way down to the symbolism (like crucifixes as the logo).