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Buy Low Price From Here Now 400 years in the future, after a virus decimates the world population, only one city on Earth remains. Ruled by the Goodchild dynasty, it is a perfect society of peace and prosperity – except that its citizens keep mysteriously disappearing. Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron stars as Aeon Flux, a secret agent/assassin/warrior whose mission is to bring down the regime. But as she goes deeper into her mission, Aeon uncovers some shocking secrets that jeopardize the mission – and her life.
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"Aeon Flux DVD" 2010-04-29
By Dr. Feelgood (USA)
The animated films originally ran on M-TV, and although the animation was interesting, the content was somewhat lacking. Well, the same could be said about the film as well.
"Aeon" 2010-04-26
By A. Szarka (Hawaii)
I never saw the anime yet. It was fun to watch and had good action scenes. Charlize did a good job as Aeon.
"Just Okay" 2010-02-13
By Willy D. Reviewer (San Francisco,CA)
SciFi in the future.
More acrobatics than acting.
Script okay. Charlize Theron not great, just okay.
The entire DVD is just okay.
"This was pretty Good!" 2010-01-02
By Joshua Hartsfield
I liked this movie this is one of the best Science Fiction action movies ever.
"Okay film, but terrible adaptation" 2009-04-17
By James Cleaveland (Los Angeles, CA)
Taken on its own, this is a so-so B science fiction movie with very nice effects and visuals. But as an adaptation of the animated series, it is pretty terrible.
Granted that the TV series's storylines were always byzantine, often bordering on the incomprehensible, but there was always a lot of thought and wit behind them, and the dialogue was consistently brilliant. It was a show that expected a lot of its audience, and it's unfortunate that a lot of people (the makers of this movie in particular) can't see past the show's eye candy. By comparison, this film's script just drips mediocrity. The effects are wonderful and must have cost a fair penny, and they really do capture the distinctive look of the show, so I can't help but wish they'd taken the time to write a decent story that was somewhat faithful to its source material.
They could have at least tried to get the basics of the premise right. In the original show, Aeon is a super-competent freelance agent, working to undermine the rule of Trevor Goodchild, an eccentric megalomanic scientist who has seized political control of the city-state of Bregna (pronounced BREN-yeh) to use as a giant petri dish for his scientific and social engineering experiments. Trevor is weirdly charismatic and seems to genuinely believe he is creating a utopia, despite the obvious dystopian aspects of the world he has made. Across the heavily guarded border lies the rival nation of Monica. We never see much of Monica, but it appears to be a much freer place than Bregna, and Aeon frequently helps people try to sneak across the border, as well as sabotaging all of Trevor's crackbrained pet projects as they occur to him. Although she clearly sympathizes with Monica, she "takes no side" and is essentially an anarchist, rebelling against any controlling authority, and therefore despising Trevor's despotism. Further complicating matters is the fact that Aeon and Trevor share a past, the details of which are never given, and are still deeply infatuated with one another, even though they are now enemies.
So there you go! The makings of a terrific movie script, right?
I guess not. In this movie, Aeon is not her own boss, but instead is a minion taking orders from a rebel organization called the Monicans. Monica itself does not exist. Trevor never staged a coup, but is instead the hereditary monarch of Bregna (pronounced BREG-na). Most of humanity was wiped out by a disease generations ago, and Brega is all that's left. People have been getting secretly killed by Trevor's government, so the Monicans want to kill Trevor. Aeon begins experiencing flashbacks to a past with Trevor that she doesn't clearly remember. Without spoiling the big revelation about why Trevor's government is assassinating people, I can say that Trevor's personality and motivations end up bearing no resemblence to the original, and that the original was a lot more interesting. For her part, Aeon is far less confident than her animated counterpart, and spends most of the movie being led around by various different people and being unsure what to do. When she finally does something proactive toward the end of the film... frankly, it seems like kind of a stupid action under the circumstances, but it works out. The dialogue is a huge let-down, with none of the wonderful, multi-leveled verbal sparring betwen Aeon and Trevor that defined their relationship in the original show. Aeon does get in a couple of very good lines right as she's about to make the above-mentioned big decision, however.
The funky music is cool, and the film is fun to look at. Charlize Theron does an admirable job with the material she's given; I'm impressed by how well she nailed the animated character's voice. On it's own merits, it's not such a bad film, just nothing remarkable. But it is a lousy adaption of its source material.
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