Æon Flux (1991)

I love this movie so much

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

It seems every child wants to write another 1984, even better. Previous experience is irrelevant. Intelligence optional. And the result is a video game experience of a movie or novel. Gattaca, Hunger Games, building the total state because every dim mind knows what others need. Bloodshed seems to be a mandatory ingredient. And attractive people that are ready to kill anybody in sight become moral because the audience would want to spend the night with the actor or someone like the drawn character. A sick masquerade of people pretending to be somebody else and pretending to look for some ideal while settling down for very mundane, even worthless aspects. Cheap escapism. And ugly drawings.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch

Seriously, I challenge the writer to come up with a plot that goes from point A to point B without making pretentious pseudo-philosophical nonsense or portraying a cartoon woman's feet in a fetishistic manner. He can't seem to do it. In a world with anatomically challenged mutant aliens that somehow manage to become humanity's next great leap in evolution, I wouldn't think it's all that difficult. In all earnestness, the aliens turning into humanity's next stage of evolution doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Humanity has had a torso for the whole of it's myriad of forms, from Chimp to Homo Erectus, it's torsos for all. I don't see how we can evolve without them. Also the episode where Aeon Flux kept on going back to the sticky table with the grey mystery ooze made no sense. How did that kid know who that baby mutated into? I couldn't identify my own kid in a photo line up up you showed me several other pictures of babies, so how does a prepubescent kid know just by a single glance? Another example, the episode where Aeon seduces an amputee for no apparent reason. Why does this amputee trust this woman? Wasn't he looking for someone else? Did he just see Aeon Flux and just decide "Oh well, good enough. Never mind the fact that my lover is trapped in prison and probably dead, I better help this stranger escape from a high security facility," Yet another of my complaints, don't worry, I'm not just gonna harp on the myriad of plot holes, is the horrendous art. The art looks like something I would have fever dreamed and the malformed, hideous, and uncanny valley residing characters emote and move roughly on the same level as a Chucky Cheese animatronics. The main complaint I have is that it talks a big, smart game, yet has all the wit and subtlety of a shovel to the knees. Simply put, if you remove the pseudo philosophy, the foot obsession, and the skimpy outfits that Aeon wears (by the way, the way she is drawn makes me want to swear off women altogether) you are left with an unintelligible and incomprehensible mess. I've had hallucinogenic benders that have made better sense.Don't watch Aeon Flux, unless you want to make fun of it mercilessly or you like reading the Marquis De Sade way too much.

The movie does not adhere to the cartoon version - some similarity is there but overall the film version is a standalone story, not subject to the formula used in the MTV original. Ms Theron is very impressive as Aeon, and shows her recent training in gymnastics off to advantage. I found the production values in the film to be of high standard, and will watch it many times over just to enjoy the settings ( and of course, 'Aeon' is rather easy on the eyes...). One small thing is problematic - the movie does not have the dark tone to it I would have expected. I would have thought the overall feeling might have been more along the lines of 'Underworld', but instead I found it to almost be an upbeat film. Optimism run rampant as it were. Overall I judged this to be an excellent film. So-called critics have not watched enough sci-fi if they panned this movie, then again I even liked the latest Godzilla movie, so what do I know. Bottom line - Charlize Theron looks great, is entirely in character as Aeon, watch the movie and enjoy it for what it is. A splendid effort.

Aeon Flux is exactly what Anime is, that is it is a Japanese animated film/TV, Anime is everything from soap operas, through kids programmes, thrillers, horror and porn, I will admit that Chung's artwork style is not typical, but you can also find anime that is done in any style from standard big eyes to realistic, watercolour or flash animation.Aeon flux is a gritty tale of a future world where Chung can explain and explore the notions of humanity without constraints of reality. It is very inspired and unique.No idea about the film, the preview work and trailers incorporate the original animation so maybe they will keep true to the original style, which would be amazing, fingers crossed.Sorry for slight rant, they need a word for the type of anime people like rather than using the name of it, similar with the use of manga, the word for comic books in japan being applied only to violent anime... just makes people get the wrong idea about what it is...R.