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LaidBack4Life

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U need to watch this film twice to really understand what the hell is going on, cuz at the beginning everything's pretty confusing. In the end everything is clarified though.

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Posted sep 26, 2008 6:27 am pt

mandytjie

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I know, I know... not many people liked Aeon Flux. And yet for some strange reason I loved it so fiercely, all I can think of is returning to that beautiful Japanese garden of the future. They say that when music video producers hit the big...
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I know, I know... not many people liked Aeon Flux. And yet for some strange reason I loved it so fiercely, all I can think of is returning to that beautiful Japanese garden of the future. They say that when music video producers hit the big screen, you can see the effects in the use of lighting and colour. And indeed, the design and vision this movie present of the future is simply outstanding. It was simply visually beautiful, a symphony for the eyes.

And there have been similar films that have been grilled as this film has been. The Cell is one such film that comes to mind. Except that where the pain of the characters was only accessible in d'Onofrio's character in The Cell, and this through the visualisation of his madness, the emotions of the characters in Aeon Flux is expressed by the actors themselves. Once again, not everyone agrees here, but I so accessed Csokas's character that it has greatly influenced my view of this film.

It reminded me of the field scene in 1984, the beauty of The Cell, the warped futuristic vision of Handmaid's Tale. An so I gave it a ten.

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Posted jul 26, 2007 8:47 pm pt

kylehannah

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Aeon Flux raises a lot of questions about humanity and what makes a person human however it's intelligent plot becomes very boring and due to it's Sci Fi look you'd expect action to hold your attention but there isn't much of it, instead it's an...
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Aeon Flux raises a lot of questions about humanity and what makes a person human however it's intelligent plot becomes very boring and due to it's Sci Fi look you'd expect action to hold your attention but there isn't much of it, instead it's an interesting story that kind of goes nowhere fast. Based on the animated short films of Peter Chung, the movie succeeds in translating Chung's series into a brilliant full length film. While it would be impossible to have an actress bend like in the MTV animated series, Charlize Theron is very acrobatic and looks great in spandex and black leather. The costumes are futuristic and the landscapes, mostly CGI, are gorgeous takes on mid-century design.Aeon Flux takes place 400 years in the future. Mankind has been contained to a single walled in city where the last 5 million people on the planet live. They've protected themselves off from the rest of the world due to a virus, and the deadly virus still lurks in the animals that inhabit the jungles surrounding this area.The city however is in great despair.The government run by scientist Trevor Goodchild (Marton Csoks) rules the city, and anyone that disagrees with what they say disappears.There is a rebellious group at work,who want to overthrow the Goodchild regime. They are the Monicans. The most skilled and powerful of these assassins is Aeon Flux (Theron).Very intelligent twists and turns later and Aeon Flux soon becomes as good or even better than The Matrix.What is most amazing about the film is its stylized look.Aeon Flux is packed with bizarre images and intense and unique fight sequences,that give it a spark that is missing from most sci-fi films like Pitch Black.

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Posted jul 25, 2007 8:14 am pt

DarkLonerOne

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I was a bit confused when I saw this film. Somehow interesting and intriguing plot but then something was majorly lacking.

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Posted jul 7, 2007 4:47 pm pt

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This movie ruined everything that the cartoon was about. HORRID, an absolute disgrace!

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Posted jun 20, 2007 10:41 am pt

RosAzzo

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This is a really good movie. I loved watching it.. I have been trying to watch this movie for ages. It is really worthed to watch.

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Posted may 28, 2007 4:45 pm pt

jeffy_19

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um it was not a really bad movie it was good it waas a diffrent kind of a movie i guess

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Posted apr 20, 2007 7:29 am pt

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It was different, Kind of a after math of 28 days later, It had a neat story though. I liked the story I just think they could have made it a little longer to explain how it all started. The movie is about the whole world getting bombed with...
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It was different, Kind of a after math of 28 days later, It had a neat story though. I liked the story I just think they could have made it a little longer to explain how it all started. The movie is about the whole world getting bombed with chemicles and nuclear residue. So everyone lives in a small city contained in a wall that border the entire city. There is a little robot that contantly goes around the wall and sprays a substance that suposedly kills the disease. Well in the story they show that the bombs went off thousands of years ago and they just keep cloning the same people. They did this because the babys might have disabilitys or might be sick with radiation. So every female that gets pregnant must be killed. So when they kill that person the just reclone her and give her a new name. The Story was very interesting but they just didn't explain it enough. There was to much fighting. This should have been based more on the story of cloning then Aeon's grudge with the people that killed her pregnant friend. Maybe one day someone will pick up on this idea and do something new with it.

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Posted mar 31, 2007 2:52 am pt

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Charlize in tight black garments aside, this film isn't what it could have been. The original Aeon Flux program was a bizzarely entertaining acid-trip nightmare, and though the film does a good job recreating some of the characters and...
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Charlize in tight black garments aside, this film isn't what it could have been. The original Aeon Flux program was a bizzarely entertaining acid-trip nightmare, and though the film does a good job recreating some of the characters and situations, it falls short of the TV program. There's too much political ambling, too much story, too much of a need to turn absurdity into something that makes sense.

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Posted mar 19, 2007 10:26 pm pt

SweetPeaSurry

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I thought this was a pretty good movie. I'm in love with the genre though. I realize it was similar to many movies that have been coming out with the futuristic vigilante theme. However, as far as these movies go, I was pretty pleased with it.

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Posted feb 9, 2007 12:08 pm pt

• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  75
  It's all so geekily gorgeous, it hardly matters that the narrative lapses in and out of incoherence and the dialogue is functional at best.

  by Jason Anderson | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  63
  The ideas underlying Aeon Flux's plot are the film's strength, and the filmmakers deserve some credit for doing more than paying lip service to them.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Slate
  
  60
  Aeon Flux is not that terrible. It's certainly more fun than a lot of films that get lovingly showcased.

  by David Edelstein | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  58
  The futuristic thriller is overly familiar and never especially gripping -- and too somber and cerebral for the young action crowd -- but it looks terrific and is in no way an embarrassment.

  by William Arnold | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  50
  By forcing definition on Flux, the filmmakers rob her of any allure. What do they offer instead? Clumsy exposition, bland PG-13 gunfights and subpar computer animation.

  by Robert K. Elder | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  50
  The plot frequently resets/realigns itself in the fashion of "Lost" or "Alias," as good guys become bad guys, friends become enemies, and combatants become lovers. To portray confusion and uncertainty is one thing; to make a film this unsure of itself, wracked by its own faulty footing and reticence, is quite another.

  by Mark Olsen | Read Full Review »
• [+] Premiere
  
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  What made Aeon Flux compelling and special as an animated series had everything to do with the medium and the freedom Chung was given to shape the story as he pleased. Take away those elements, and Aeon Flux becomes nothing more than middling science fiction, which is unfortunately what the film is.

  by Ryan Devlin | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
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  Theron is an arresting image, but, like everything else in Aeon Flux, she's stranded in a trashy and derivative glum zone of fashion-runway fascism.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
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  With the exception of a few enjoyable action scenes, such as when Aeon and fellow operative Sithandra (Sophie Okonedo) flip and backflip their way across a lethal garden of bullet-spewing trees and spikes disguised as blades of grass, Aeon Flux is surprisingly draggy.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Dallas Observer
  
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  Kusama offers moments of inspiration, but it frustrates like hell that she couldn't nail it completely.

  by Luke Y. Thompson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
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  While its heart is in the right place, Aeon Flux's head is just a little too high to make much sense.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
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  Gone are Chung's willfully irrational non sequitur surrealisms, vertiginous designs, dry humor, and physiological weirdness; now we have Charlize Theron trying to look icy, leaping about in resistance to a future dystopia that looks a lot like an overlandscaped European Union industrial park.

  by Michael Atkinson | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
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  It's a movie best appreciated for the costumes, the sets and Ms. Theron's haughty athleticism.

  by Dana Stevens | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
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  The future looks alternately grim and hysterical in Aeon Flux, a spectacularly silly sci-fier that plays like "The Matrix" crossed with "The Island" and reinterpreted as a long-lost Michael Jackson video.

  by Justin Chang | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
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  This live-action cartoon tries to walk the line between pleasing the faithful and appealing to a broad-based action audience. It fails on both fronts: It's too lifeless and watered-down to stand on its own high heels, but commits the cardinal sin of messing with the original.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »