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A star-studded cast of familiar faces, including Charlize Theron, Johnny Lee Miller and Pete Postlethwaite, make up “Aeon Flux”, the story of a renegade freedom fighter tasked with seeking out and destroying Trevor Goodchild, the mastermind overlord believed to be controlling – and restricting – the human race from development and growth.
Whether you’re into sci-fi movies or not, the DVD cover of this movie and its well-known stars make this look like an attractive proposition – a must-see, one-to-watch movie for everyone. Let me point out now, it only makes it *look* like that; it doesn’t mean it is.
Set 400 years from now, after an industrial virus has wiped out 99% of the human population, just five million people remain – and they are kept in the safety of a walled city, not quite caged yet not free to walk the globe as their ancestors once did. A group of renegade freedom fighters known as the Monicans are determined to right this wrong, to free the people from the control of the Goodchild Regime and lead the human race back in to the planet they once rightly dominated.
Aeon Flux (Charlize Theron) is the agent assigned with the task of assassinating Trevor Goodchild (Marton Csokas). Equipped with an intimate knowledge of how to kill a man with her bare thighs, Flux sets out on her mission with the aid of her trusted friend, Sithandra (Sophie Okonedo), a human hybrid who’s modified her feet to be another pair of hands to help her move about more swiftly.
Having crossed the border from the citadel to the heavily fortified sanctity of Goodchild’s headquarters, crossing lawns of grass that instantly turn to deadly spikes and tasty-looking fruit that fire poisonous darts at intruders, Flux comes face-to-face with Goodchild – and the truth of humanity’s situation is revealed.
Physically unable to kill Goodchild no matter how hard she tries, it turns out that in curing the disease and saving five million humans, the scientist inadvertently sterilised the whole population and has spent the past four hundred years cloning humans to keep the race alive whilst he tries to develop a cure for their barrenness.
While Flux is struggling with her inability to kill her target, Goodchild’s violent brother, Oran, is staging a coup to take over the facility. Suddenly, Flux and Goodchild find themselves the targets – one from the soldiers of the coup, the other from the Monicans, who have identified Flux as a rogue for being unable to murder her quarry and therefore have sent in other agents to terminate her.
If it all sounds a little farcical and too fantastical to follow, that’s probably because it is. “Aeon Flux” is a disappointing film that could have been acted and directed so much better. Charlize Theron is beautiful in tight fitting outfits, swinging through trees, throwing herself from tower to tower and breaking men’s necks with her shapely legs (there aren’t many better ways to die than between a beautiful woman’s thighs, I can assure you), but that’s about the only reason to watch this movie. Despite her billing, and that of Postlethwaite and others, the acting is wooden to the point of boredom and it’s difficult to tell whether the film is poorly acted because the cast are simply crap at their job or whether they were as jaded with the transparent script as the audience is surely going to be.
If you’ve got the opportunity to watch this film and there are no better options open to you, such as going out for the evening and getting blind drunk in the local pub, then “Aeon Flux” isn’t a bad movie to sit at home on your own watching, fantasising over Theron’s thighs perhaps, but if there’s the opportunity to take a beautiful person (beer goggle induced or otherwise) to bed instead, no matter how early it is, then I’d suggest you do that.
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One for the " Bargain Bucket " at a DVD store nearby, by the sound of this............Roy......
dvdsprks2 03.08.2007 20:37
Great review, I missed this at the cinema as I love sci fi, the way you describe it, it appears that it could have been a much better picture than you describe. Killing with thighs wasn't that in an early Sean Connery Bond. David
Craigshadow12 28.07.2007 22:22
Great Review! I take my hat off to you :D. Craig :♥D
Like the animated series its based on,Aeon Fluxis the kind of sci-fi thats best ... more
appreciated by the MTV generation. Its a serious attempt at stylized, futuristic action/adventure (the title character, played by Charlize Theron, is essentially a female J...
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Like the animated series its based on,Aeon Fluxis the kind of sci-fi thats best ... more
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Advantages: GREAT stunts and special effects, Theron looking stunning! Disadvantages: Some of the characters lack the depth that would make them engaging
mkkreuk 29.09.2007 (29.09.2007)
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Advantages: GREAT stunts and special effects, Theron looking stunning! Disadvantages: Some of the characters lack the depth that would make them engaging
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