Viewing their predicament as "having traded freedom for a gilded cage," their goals are to disrupt the accepted order and kill the ruler, Trevor Goodchild (Marton Csokas), and/or his second-in-command brother, Oren (Jonny Lee Miller). There were 5 million survivors of the global plague in 2011, and there are 5 million men and women in 2415.Īs is the case with any totalitarian government, there are rebels. For 400 years, since 99% of the human race was wiped out by a virus, mankind has been living under the protection of the Goodchild regime in a walled city surrounded by the untamed wild. But both films pose some intriguing options that, if properly developed, could result in an eye-opener of a motion picture. The Island wasn't it, and neither is this. Some day, someone is going to make a great feature about cloning. However, except during a few routine action sequences that fail to raise a single nape hair, Aeon Flux is never uninteresting. So it vacillates and, ultimately, that becomes its undoing. The script, credited to Phil Hay & Matt Mandredi (based on Peter Chung's MTV animated shorts), doesn't seem to know whether it wants to be smart enough to appeal to serious-minded movie-goers or dumb enough to appeal to popcorn-munchers (apologies to those who straddle both categories). And it's better than about 1/3 of movies for which distributors hold advance screenings.Īeon Flux is a science fiction adventure film that includes a lot of intriguing ideas, some of which are left underdeveloped. Okay, it's flawed and isn't a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, but it's perfectly watchable, especially if viewed on a low-risk medium like DVD.
It's a declaration of "no confidence." Imagine my surprise, therefore, to discover that Aeon Flux is not a bad movie. It's the studio's way of throwing in the towel. The lack of advance screenings of Aeon Flux establishes an expectation that the film is likely to be tough to sit through. I'll never understand why studios sometimes choose to withhold films from critics.
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