Aeon Flux - enthralling

Advantages: GREAT stunts and special effects, Theron looking stunning!
Disadvantages: Some of the characters lack the depth that would make them engaging

...Aeon Flux Firstly, I'll admit that I rented this film on the purely superficial and shallow basis that Charlize Theron looked brilliant in the promotional pics and trailers for this film. However, I have to say that it delivered purely as a film on its own. STORYLINE The storyline is not bad at all. The film is basically, a post-apocalyptic femme fatale movie. We enter a world, known as Bregna which on the face of it is Utopia, a perfect society. The film takes place 400 years into the future and Bregna is what is left of the world after a virus wiped out ninety percent of the population. Now the world is regulated by a group of scientists who descend from the scientists who cured this virus - a bit far fetched, I know. However, all is not well in this society, and Charlize Theron, plays Aeon Flux, an assassin kitted up in...

mkkreuk 29.09.2007 · Read review
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Not enough flex in the flux

Advantages: Decent enough in places; Theron's wardrobe!
Disadvantages: No oomph at all; more like an episode of a TV series than a film

...I've been putting off watching Aeon Flux for a while, although I'm not too sure why. It probably had something to do with the negative feedback it gained after promising so much. Adapted from a sci-fi series in the early 1990s and starring Charlize Theron, who is usually on fire on screen, I was surprised when it got slated, but last night, with the wife round at a friend's house and son William tucked up in bed, I thought I'd give it a go. The plot is far fetched, but then it's sci-fi fantasy. In the year 2011, a virus kills 99% of the World's population. Dr Goodchild creates a vaccine, and takes the remaining 5 million inhabitants to a safe location to try and reconstruct humanity. 400 years later, the Goodchilds have continued to run the government and improve things, but now there is a small gang of fighters known as the Monicans...

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Aeon Flush

Advantages: It won't make its budget back
Disadvantages: Where do I start?!?

...In 2415, the survivors of an apocalyptic global plague live in a walled paradise by the name of Bregna, presided over by Trevor Goodchild and his brother Oren. But all is not well in the in the city - a police state in which people have a worrying habit of disappearing and the populace are haunted by strange dreams. Freedom fighters the Monicans send in their most skilled operative to bring down the city's leaders. Her name is Aeon Flux, an acrobatic assassin out for revenge against the men she blames for her sister's death. Since the departure of the Sigourney Weaver's Ripley, cinema has been crying out for another female action heroine. But from the look of this nonsensical bucket of tripe, it will have to wait a while longer. So what went wrong? All the elements are here; director Karyn Kusama was at the helm of critically...

afy9mab 07.04.2006 · Read review
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What the Flux have they done?

Advantages: Johnny Lee Miller back in action is about it!
Disadvantages: Everything else is just cliched and awful!

...Aeon Flux started as a series of short animated episodes on MTV where a gun toting, black catsuit wearing female killed just about everyone in sight before, invariably, dying at the end of the story. This format turned out to be very successful and Aeon Flux moved on to 20 minute stories which allowed a bit more story but still pretty much followed the same idea. Bullets flying everywhere as the acrobatic woman killed a virtual army of bad guys! These were shown on BBC2 in the mid nineties I think. Now the basic concept has been taken, enlarged (minimally it could be said!) and brought to the big screen as a live action blockbuster starring Charlize Theron as the black clad woman, now given the name Aeon Flux. In 2011 99% of the worlds population is killed by a virus, Trevor Goodchild discovers a cure and builds a city to house...

Ailran 23.07.2006 · Read review
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I wish it'd flux off

Advantages: Looks good
Disadvantages: Feels badly edited

...Aeon Flux is an assassin trying to undermine a Utopian society where almost the whole population has died from some disease and everyone else lives in a perfect city. It's predictable that the wall around the perfect city is going to end up getting partially destroyed so people can go live on the rest of the planet. It ends up that everyone is a clone and they are trying to have children naturally but this is already happening and those people are being killed by a mystery figure who is revealed at the end. That might sound like I have spoilt most of the plot there but far from it, theres a lot more plot and its extremely complex too. I truly wanted to like this. It's a little too complex to make any sense in the amount of time it's presented in. I watched the DVD version & I get the feeling it's been edited to hell & beyond. You get...

atytyut2434 17.07.2008 (12.05.2009) · Read review
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What the Flux?

Advantages: Graphics/Action
Disadvantages: Everything Else.

...What the flux went on here? When i went to the cinema to watch this, i was quite excited. Charlize Theron for a start, doing acrobatics in a tight leather outfit, a futuristic fantasy utopia with a disenchanted leader (Trevor Goodchild). Yes it sounds much the same as many other films in the genre, but they are generally ok aswell. From the start i could feel that it wasn't going to be the best film i had seen all year, not by a long shot. The story follows Aeon Flux, a member of a rebel group named the 'Monicans' in the city of 'Bregna'. Her sister is kidnapped and killed by the ruling factor of Earth's last remaining city. This is not an uncommon occurence and happens regularlt around the city. Aeon and the rest of the rebels are trying to stop this. Aeon is commanded by her leader to assassinate the leader of the city...

lustba 15.11.2007 · Read review
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Thighly Thiresome

Advantages: Charlize Theron kills people with her thighs
Disadvantages: The acting is more wooden than Camberwick Green

...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...

markd_uk 20.06.2007 · Read review
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Is it supposed to be a comedy?

Advantages: I suppose it did look fantastic
Disadvantages: The acting is dreadful, the action is boring, it makes no sense...

...Aeon Flux. It's very rare that I see a film I hate (only Cutthroat Island and Battlefield Earth have ever received one star from me), but in this absolutely awful sci-fi action flick, we have another. Maybe the fact that I had just seen the brilliant Crash biased my judgement, but I couldn't help feeling that in the same day I had watched the best and worst film of the last year. As soon as the credits said it was an MTV production I knew we were heading for bad things. However, I was still surprised at just how dire the next 90 minutes would be, since it has a promising cast and a half-decent idea. Apparently it's based on a cartoon which used to be on MTV... hardly inspires you with confidence, does it? This film version is directed by Karyn Kusama, who previously made "Girlfight". And also apparently, the studio, Paramount...

l-m-n-o-p 06.04.2006 · Read review
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Others Know Better

Advantages: Special effects, unpresictable storyline
Disadvantages: Weak story and poor acting

...My boyfriend always wants to rent a film for the evening whereas I would be happy watching whatever is on the tele. But last night he managed to talk me around, well what I really mean is I gave in. We went to the local rent shop and he spent ages umming and ahhing about what to get, while I wondered around dreaming of being at home curled up on the sofa watching awful tele. Eventually he picked out Aeon Flux. I'm not really a film person so I had no idea what it was about let alone whether it would be any good. Background - Before Aeon Flux In 2011 a terrible virus wipes out 99% of the world's population and only 5million people survive. A world renowned scientist develops a cure for this terrible disease and founds the city of Bregna. The world outside turns into uncontrollable wilderness and so a wall is built around Bregna to...

Jennet1987 24.05.2006 · Read review
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Adrain Flux

Advantages: Price or is it
Disadvantages: Everything else

...A company's service levels and customer care can only be established when problems are encountered and this is where this company falls far short. If you google the company all the good reviews just say they are good as they are cheap but look at reviews where claims are made or problems have to be resolved anf the feedback seems to be on the majority negative. Adrian Flux are good on price - however this is a false econmy. The customer service levels are far below what is required by the FSA. They have many hidden charges and if these are query or disputed cover is withdrawn with a very short notice period and if a full premium is paid large chunk is retained. I have used this company for the past four years however upto now it has just been get a quote and pay a premium. Now I have encoutered a major problem with regarding...

Maney 21.11.2008 (17.12.2008) · Read review
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