by Ailran

Created on: March 04, 2007   Last Updated: May 09, 2007

Aeon Flux started as a series of short animated episodes on MTV where a gun toting, black catsuit wearing female killed just about everyone in sight before, invariably, dying at the end of the story. This format turned out to be very successful and Aeon Flux moved on to 20 minute stories which allowed a bit more story but still pretty much followed the same idea. Bullets flying everywhere as the acrobatic woman killed a virtual army of bad guys! These were shown on BBC2 in the mid nineties I think.

Now the basic concept has been taken, enlarged (minimally it could be said!) and brought to the big screen as a live action blockbuster starring Charlize Theron as the black clad woman, now given the name Aeon Flux.

In 2011 99% of the worlds population is killed by a virus, Trevor Goodchild discovers a cure and builds a city to house all those who have survived. The city is called Bragna, is populated by 5 million people and 400 years later is considered a paradise city, at least by most of inhabitants anyway.

There are those that don't agree though, The Monicans, as they are called, don't think that the Goodchild dynasty, for yes they still rule the city even now, is everything it says it is or that Bragna is quite the paradise it is made out to be. People just disappear and are never to be seen again happens far too frequently and no one seems to care. They want to find out the truth' about the Goodchilds and Bragna.

Aeon Flux (Theron) is a Monican, one of their top people. She is skilled, ruthless, athletic and determined, she makes the perfect assassin and she is very good at her job'.
She has been waiting for the chance to kill Goodchild himself and now it seems as if everything is coming together to enable her to at last get her chance but is everything really as it seems? What are the real secrets of Bragna and Goodchild?

Aeon Flux is lightweight, disposable and ultimately not all it could have been. Equilibrium did the whole thing, more or less, miles better. It is kinda fun but I came out feeling as if I should have been better, much better, especially after the fantastic opening mission. Aeon has to break into a secure building and destroy some information and the whole attack is fast, furious and bodes well for the film as a whole, reminding me a lot of Mission Impossible.
Sadly though it is only the action scenes that add any liveliness to the film. The story, while intriguing enough, is told in a very uninteresting and boring way. You can see the idea

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