"Ultraviolet" * (out of four): Writer-director Kurt Wimmer manages to waste both Milla Jovovich and 88 minutes of your time.

With “Ultraviolet”, a comic book movie based on a comic that doesn’t actually exist, writer-director Kurt Wimmer shows the same lack of subtly he brought to the Christian Bale debacle “Equilibrium”. The heroine of “Ultraviolet” (named, naturally, Violet) is a “hemophage”, some sort of vampire with abilities that, like much in the film, are never clearly defined. The film picks up in the midst of a “blood war” between the humans, led by the evil Daxus (Nick Chinlund) and the “phages”, led by no one in particular. The details of the blood war? Not exactly clear. When Violet (Milla Jovovich) comes into possession of a weapon in the form of a young boy (Cameron Bright from “Godsend”) she finds herself the target of both sides (again, not entirely sure why).

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