Aeon Flux

Review By: Mike Masri
MikeMasri@TheCinemaSource.com

The legs of a beautiful women wrapped around them is something many men would dream of. However, the dream loses something when that woman is a trained assassin, who happens to scissor-kick your neck and kills you. This highly trained beautiful assassin is Aeon Flux, played by Charlize Theron .

Before becoming a movie Aeon Flux was an animated sitcom on MTV. It debuted in 1995 and had a lifespan that lasted three seasons. The sitcom lent the movie its cast and setting, but didn't dictate the script.

Aeon Flux is set 400 years in the future in Bregna, the last city of the civilized world. Bregna is home to all those that survived a terrible disease that has plagued mankind. A council of scientists responsible for keeping that disease under control govern/control Bregna. However, not all accept the current rulers in this seemly utopian society. Aeon Flux ( Charlize Theron ) is a Monican rebel and assassin who believes something is terribly wrong with the city and questions the random disappearance of its inhabitants.

The plot of the movie revolves around Flux's mission to assassinate Trevor Goodchild ( Marton Csokas ), the leader of Bregna, and a task which should be no trouble for the world's greatest assassin. However, passion as well as Flux's thirst for knowledge and understanding gets in the way of her simple mission. Flux is left to rethink all that she knows and formulate new alliances trusting nothing, but her own instincts.

The movie seems like a high pact action sci-fi thriller. It is all those qualities in the fact that it is set in the future and just about every other scene is either a fight or stunt of some sort, but the movie is also a love story. The idea for the movie from the early stages of writing and directing was to have it be all things while being a love story.

One of the problems I had with the film is that it tried to be too many things. If I'm in the mood to watch a high action movie set in the future that includes a revolt I'd much rather watch Equilibrium , which starred Christian Bale and had a similar premise. As far as a love story I see where they were trying to go with Aeon Flux , but it didn't quite do it for me.

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