Æon Flux

2005 "The Perfect World Meets The Perfect Assassin"
5.4| 1h33m| PG-13| en
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400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.

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Actuakers One of my all time favorites.
LouHomey From my favorite movies..
CommentsXp Best movie ever!
Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
TonyMontana96 The 10 idiot critics on rotten tomatoes that gave this film a positive review deserve to be banned from reviewing, there is nothing watchable, nothing sexy, nothing plausible in this piece of complete garbage. Even Charlize Theron gives a wooden performance. Which is not something I expect from an actress of her calibre. As you can guess the rest of the other acting is absolutely dreadful. No need mentioning who else was in it, because it didn't look like they turned up to act. The picture opens with ridiculous costumes, stupid hairdo's and a futuristic setup that looks like it was stole from better films like The Demolition Man and Star Wars Empire Strikes Back. Furthermore there is zero character development, a lot of the characters appear to have been born without a name, such as some redheaded woman who is some kind of leader with no background, no motive or even anything simple like a name.The visuals suck, the characters are simple cannon fodder to entertain dumb moviegoers and you would think when Theron's sister is killed you would expect her to at least look like she cares, but no, not even a tear, and minutes later she's having sex with the person she believes is responsible for her sister's death which is simply incomprehensible and to boot, tries to strangle him upon waking, hmm, what on earth were the writers thinking. Another prime example is after Theron's character who has several names by the way; fights a coloured woman that appears to be a villain and beats her up quite badly, moments later you see that same woman telling her master she failed without a single scratch or bruise in sight.There's also plenty of cringeworthy dialogue, like "We're meant to die (says Theron) everything about us doesn't matter" so hurry up and walk into a stray bullet so this mess can be over with. Aeon Flux can't even rely on its action scenes, as they're just boring through the motions fodder. Karyn Kusama (the director) and his crew should all be very ashamed of what they have done, releasing this disaster upon the world; it's one of the worst films ever made. Overall Aeon Flux is plot less, clueless, bottom of the barrel sludge. 0/10
LeonLouisRicci This Live Action take on the Anime TV Series Suffers from, well it Suffers from Many Things, but it isn't an Awful Film as some Purist would have You Believe. It's just Not Much of Anything. The PG-13 Rating Kills the Many Action Sequences.In the Movie "Aeon", the "A" is Silent and Pronounced "Eon", is a Futuristic Super-Model-Kick-Butt member of an Earth Society that Survived a Plague and They are Provided with a "Gilded Cage" by Overlords that seem to Live in a Floating Flying Saucer Thing, have Mega-Computers, and Speak with Fork-Tongues.It's all very Complicated and the Movie doesn't go to any length to Try and Explain what's Going On, except in the Broadest Terms. It seems to be more Interested in Fashion and Fights, both Highly-Stylized and Frenetic to keep the Audience Distracted from the Vagueness of it all.The Movie is Easy on the Eyes just like Aeon (Charlize Theron) but is Lacking Something, that is to say, almost Everything that makes this Sort of Thing Entertaining. It's Shallow, Plodding, Confusing, and Dull most of the time and might be more Accessible to those Familiar with the Series.It's Not Much Fun, and Fails to Capture that Sci-Fi, Action, Modern Vibe that it is assumed was its Goal. Although it's Hard to Say what was On the Mind of MTV and the Filmmakers but whatever it was, it's Worth Rethinking.
PopcornLobotomy Firstly this movie inspired me. That's right, it inspired me to hit up Google Images to find naked pictures of Charlize Theron, which I may or may not view during the masturbation session I have planned for later in the evening.But, if that's your interest, you're much better off going for one of her "serious" films, like Devil's Advocate or The Burning Plain... hell, in the latter, she opens the movie with full nudity, so that must be art... Or at least art-IS-AN.So as far as I could discern the story basically follows Theron as she receives some imaginary mission from Marge from Fargo -- who has since had an abortion and apparently pinched her wig from Ronald McDonald after a heavy night with hookers -- and then runs around from place to place having LSD-inspired action scenes.People have inexplicable superpowers for no reason whatsoever, and half the story happens inside Theron's obviously drug-addled mind.I honestly don't remember the film all that well, due to the protective amnesiac walls I've constructed in my mind around the traumatic experience, but here's an example of how bad this movie gets:Theron ends up in a prison cell at some point, and of course we can't have the hero in jail, can we? Coz that's kinda boring with very little opportunity for side boob.So, with a seductive whistle that'd make even the most dehydrated stallion take a whiz, Theron summons a swarm of mercury droplets, which solidify, roll to her, and blow a hole in the cell wall.Firstly, why a whistle? It's so pissy! Couldn't she have done her little Magneto-ripoff trick with some kind of sexy naked dance or something?Second, where did all those metal droplets came from? I mean, did the T-1000 flop open a particularly raunchy copy of US Robotics magazine and shoot liquid metal jizz all over the facility?Anyway, eventually she learns she's a clone, and that all of humanity is surviving through cyclical human cloning, and she's like, against that... for some reason... but at that point who could even care?So of course they destroy the floating cloning facility, which just happens to be humanity's last hope for ongoing inter-generational survival. Yes, our hero pretty much extincts the entire human race in this one. Nice one, Theron. Thanks a bunch!Let's face it, if you know a little bit of Illuminati conspiracy theory you know the whole story anyway. This one ticks all the boxes, mind control references, apocalyptic future setting, people as slaves, cloning, transhumanism, duality and more eyeball close-ups than you'd find at a Skeksis banquet.Seriously, can't these Illuminati dude just issue a press release and spare us the acid trip movies?Anyway, we don't need to delve into conspiracy to prove this movie is a bunch of unentertaining white noise from start to finish. 3 stars, all of which are for side boob.Note: This review is a modified version of our Video Review: "Aeon Flux - A Popcorn Lobotomy Scathing Review". You can find it here, should you be interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ7ZOQWPieM
grantss Just feels so...meh.Set in the year 2415, four hundred years after a virus wipes out all the humans on Earth except those in one city. That city was saved due to one inhabitant, Dr Goodchild, discovering an anti-virus. The city is now a (seemingly) benevolent dictatorship, run by the descendants of Dr Goodchild. However, strange things are afoot, thanks to the government. A rebel group does exist though and it counts among its members one Aeon FLux...Though the broad plot didn't seem overly original there was some room for an interesting story. That potential is wasted through style-over-substance direction which disguises a fairly weak and silly plot. The director does her best to create an air of mystery and suspense but this involves meaningless scenes, just there to confuse the audience. Cue the inevitable action scenes and explosions...Performances are pretty weak too. Charlize Theron seems listless as Aeon Flux. The character had the potential to be a great symbol for female empowerment through being a strong, invincible female action figure. Yet the writer and director hedge their bets and make her also a femme fatale and a sullen mysterious figure (to go with the superficial mystery of the movie). No wonder Theron seemed out of it - the character was so inconsistent!The remainder of the cast seem to be phoning it in too.