Æon Flux (2005)

Excellent but underrated film

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

I have never watched the cartoon this movie is supposed to be based on. In fact, I did not even know it was based on a cartoon until after I watched the movie and then came here to read the trivia and goofs sections.I felt that the movie was very imaginative, creative, and unique. The various plants, the objects and their design, the costumes; all quite unusual (in a good way).I liked the story. I felt that that too was imaginative. I really liked the movie. I believe that it was well written and well acted. The visual effects were good. I did have a hard time believing some of the moves that the underground rebel group made, but since it is a fantasy or sci-fi film, I tried to go with it.I recommend watching this movie, even if you, like me, have never watched or heard of the cartoon.

Aeon Flux (2005): Dir: Karyn Kusama / Cast: Charlize Theron, Jonny Lee Miller, Frances McDormand, Pete Postlethewaite, Sophie Okonedo: Apparently based on a video game and easily one of the stupidest films that a person can punish their intelligence to. It rates right up there with Son of the Mask as one of the worst pieces of crap released in 2005. A disease wipes out 99% of mankind although just enough survived to make this film. A walled city shelters the remaining while scientists clone people. Aeon Flux is sent to kill a government leader only to uncover deep secrets. Special effects are creative despite a screenplay that is about as fetching as a third grade book report. The director showcases the bizarre without reason while Charlize Theron drones through dimwitted dialogue and kicks the living crap out of numerous people every two minutes or so. Jonny Lee Miller plays the targeted government leader who shares a past with Flux. Yes, and they also share the experience of being part of this stupid film. Frances McDormand and Pete Postlethewaite appear in laughable roles. The special effects are the payoff and that is pretty much the only thing that this waste of time has to offer. It is based on a video game, and how many of those are worth the price of admission? Flux sucks and should be used as target practice, but first a little baseball bat action upon it would do it justice. Score: 1 / 10

This film asserts an old fashioned philosophy that aging and death are enriching and timely aspects of life...It us worth remembering: Nowadays us humans are on the verge repairing aging... This film struggles to depict some kind of dystopia derived from the same 1000 or so human genomes in the city being re-inseminated back in to the population... As if cloning magically includes traces of memory... and thus the original clonee themselvesThe science is week to non existent in this movieBut yeah sure... Don't clone for replacements continually; meiosis does a far better job maintaining a good strong population/species... But as an individual, you can't have too much of a good thing... And when humans do break biological limitations on life span this movie's message or moral about death and making way for the next generation will seem silly... You're worthless and irrelevant until you exist, so it follows that it's nobler to preserve those who are than as many those that could be

Three different administrations at Paramount were coming and going before Aeon Flux hit screens. Inheriting a film they could care less about, the talented director Karyn Kusama had the film taken away from her in post and Aeon Flux had major surgery done to it. 25 minutes were cut, characters entirely cut out and the result is a very pretty film, but a film that just doesn't make any damn sense. After Paramount's gutting, it was dumped with little fanfare and no screenings for critics. The visuals keep this watchable, but most of the film is like watching an action test pattern. Any depth on every character must have been cut out and Frances McDormand's hair dresser must have had a nervous breakdown before sending her out to the set. In it's current state, Aeon Flux plays like an outline of a film with not an ounce of emotion, heart or depth. I'd like to say a director's cut would be nice at some point, but honestly I'd rather Kusama make a far better project with better material.