Aeon Flux (2005)

 As a stand-alone piece, quite inspiring . . .
Speaking as a viewer who in his past has seriously seen only one episode of the MTV Aeon Flux show, I was hesitant to watch a movie based off the source material. I never understood nor nor appreciated the original content.

Curiosity took ahold of me though when this movie came to DVD and I ended up enjoying it very much. I liked the cool color palette, the sensual nature of organic technology and the innovative methods of weaponry.

The story, though not entirely original, was entertaining and at times thought-pprovoking. I ended up enjoying it. And it's in the truth of this that I discover why many didn't like the movie. As a fan of the show Bewitched, I was devastated by what was done to the movie to follow it. The same I guess for this movie. Fans of the show have a generally disdainful view of this movie. If you have minimal prior knowledge of that which is Aeon Flux, you may be a good candidate for liking the movie, like me. April 17, 2008

 Like Aeon, I'm torn
As you've read in other reviews, this movie cannot be compared with the animated series. That having been said, it was worth seeing once just because the locations and costumes were so cool. But the story was just too conveniently tied up, and Trevor was recast as a thoroughly virtuous goody-goody who happened to have an evil brother (I'm surprised he wasn't an evil twin). It would have been tough to make the animated series into anything cohesive, but the characters in this film are just too nice, too Hollywood, not believable. Even Aeon has lost her sadistic streak. And Peter Chung okayed all this, according to the "extras" on the DVD! Not a great movie, but well-made mindless entertainment (probably not for the hardcore Flux fan). April 5, 2008

 Stop the Flux!
Aeon Flux (2005) is a bad idea well-executed. The idea is really quite interesting, though. I remember watching the Aeon Flux - The Complete Animated Collectionwhen it came on MTV. I don't think I saw every episode, and I certainly couldn't get anything like a coherent plot out of it, but man, my memory says that show was awesome. Now that I watch the new Aeon Flux, I think perhaps I was a bit mistaken. The mini-series didn't need a coherent plot. It didn't need anything, really, because it was done in short segments, and it was only meant to look cool. This new movie does the same thing. The plot is confusing and when everything is finally revealed, it's, well, stupid.

But boy does it look cool. I think the special features on the DVD were more interesting than the actual movie because they're so concerned with set design and the filming of the movie in Berlin. Yeah, the settings are awesome. But the idea is a stinker.

I want to be able to recommend it because my teenage memories want to love it, but a bad idea well executed continues to be a bad idea.
March 25, 2008

 This is a really, really, BAAAAAD movie....
Stay away, run, as far away as you can from this stinker of a movie. Nonsensical plot, horrible acting, cheesy special effects.... Charlize Theron for all her beauty doesn't move with the natural buff athleticism of someone like Kate Beckinsale or Milla Jovovich; she looks wooden and unconvincing as a super-heroine... February 17, 2008

 Terrible!
Basically this movie promotes a heroine who practices genocide against her own people by deliberatly severing the only lifeline that her entire species has to survival. Shortly after this, amongst heaps of praise for her unexcusable decision, the movie ends as though all is now well. The main villain has been a psycho running around murdering pregnant women. The main charecter is suposedly this great, pure person, but she takes his crimes soooo much further by eliminating her species.

All in all, a terrible movie! The designers seemed to have been promoting her sickening actions too which is perhaps the worst of it, that they condone the murder-suicide of the entire human species. January 10, 2008

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