reviewed by Brian "The Naked Gun" Felts
& Benn "Where's the Humanity?" Farrell
Aeon Flux stars Charlize Theron (North Country) as the title character Aeon Flux, who is apart of a resistance
movement against the last civilization on the planet. Her orders are to kill the leader of the civilization,
Trevor Goodchild, played by Marton Csokas (Kingdom of Heaven.) However, when she gets close enough to do, she
freezes because of a flashback that involves him that she doesn't understand. Aeon Flux is now an enemy of both
the resistance movement and the civilization while she figures out what the memories mean.
Since the movie is based on the cartoon that I have not seen, I can't compare the two. So with that
said, I found the story interesting to the point where I wanted to see the ending, just because I spent
money on the movie. But the story was un-original, and it seems to be a re-occurring theme, cloning humans.
What I did like about this story is that it ignored the morality of cloning and approached it from a different
view. This movie did not make the same mistake that the late summer flop, The Island did. The morality of
using any creature as a slave as been addressed by many movies, not to mention futuristically by the 1980 movie
Blade Runner, so I am glad that this movie did not go down that path. My biggest problem is that I couldn't get
into it enough to care.
Charlize Theron is hot, but I don't know that she is an action hero type. She is very athletic and smart
but I don't know if she has the attitude that is needed for an action type. The other actors are eh.
So I guess what I am saying is that see if you want, but I suggest if you want to see a good science fiction movie,
wait for the movie Serendipity. Aeon Flux is very unoriginal and therefore unnecessary.
Brian - the Naked Gun Aeon Flux is based on a series of short film, which originally appeared on MT's Liquid Television. MTv later made it into an animated series, which ran two seasons. The movie "Aeon Flux" succeeds in capture some of the aspects of the Flux cartoons, but it adds a few things of it's own, which doesn't work. First of all, in the series of short films, Flux never said a word, which I would've liked to see the movie do as well. Of course, the critics wouldn't have received it well; not to mention the American public, but it still would've captured the charm of its inspiration better. Theron does an okay job, but I think a younger Jamie Lee Curtis would have been been cast. Of course, that's impossible and silly to say. Lastly, when the plot becomes about how everyone in the world is a clone, the picture becomes predictable. As soon as the characters complained about dreaming about living a life they never have, I immediately said, "Ah crap, they're all clones again." The use of clones in a plot is quickly becoming old hat. Overall, I thought "Aeon Flux" had some exciting aspects, but overall, it fails to truly excite its audience. Benn - Where's the Humanity?
After a year of very bad female action movies, we finally get an action movie with a female lead that is
almost mediocre. But I can't recommend this movie because it is so average. The only thing good I can
say about this movie is that it is not as bad as the trailer makes it out to be.