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Aeon Flux
Aeon Flux is the unlikely name of Charlize Theron's futuristic action heroine in this science fiction perfume commercial that looks great but smells of rotting cabbage.
Aeon Flux is a very bad 70s style sci-fi adventure - only consider it if glorious and inventive visuals are enough for you. If you require any kind of coherent plot, substance or anything else that makes a movie good, look elsewhere. This is empty pap at its pappiest. I enjoyed this film: I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: - Charlize looks good in tight stuff but teases rather than showing us anything. Should that be your thing, you can fulfil that requirement here. To enjoy this film you should be: in the MTV generation.
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The problems start very early. "2011 - A virus kills 99% of the world's population," it proclaims. "The five million
survivors live in Bregna, the last city on earth." Hmmm. 99% destroyed, leaving five million. So that means it
started with 500 million. So what happened between now and 2011 to destroy the first 90% - five and a half billion people?
It seems we don't need to know. Aeon Flux plays like the cut scenes in a video game - all style and no substance.
Charlize Theron dons many spectactular but silly outfits - largely in direct contrast with the scenery, which seems a tad
dense for someone who's trying to creep around. The high kicking and shuffling up walls is more comical than thrilling
and the heavyweight cast of Theron, Pete Postlethwaite and Frances McDormand seem very out of place in what feels like
a modern day Barbarella, without the tongue-in-cheek fun aspect. Aeon Flux takes herself far too seriously.
Visually, Aeon Flux is a feast. Taken from the MTV cartoon original, we're treated to all kinds of innovative images,
everything stylishly and carefully presented in the way of a fashion catwalk - supreme aesthetics but with a practical
value lower than Gary Glitter's fan club membership. The scene where Aeon and her four-handed friend dance and flip-flop
through the
garden security of the citadel is so laughably implausible that you expect Leslie Nielsen to turn up any second, and the
editing is shoddy enough that the acrobatics don't even look real. And you can't even get sucked into the story -
it's so badly flawed (400 years of technological advances and an assassin can walk into a secured facility to pop off
the number one guy?) that you give up following it after a while and doze off into MTV mode. It's the only way to
appreciate it - there's less substance here than in Kate Moss's lunchbox.
