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Aeon Flux

EMAILPRINTParamount Pictures

Aeon Flux reviews
36
6.2 User Score:

Generally unfavorable reviews

Based on 23 critic reviews
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Based on 129 votes
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Action  |  Adventure  |  Drama  |  Sci-fi  |  Suspense/Thriller

Written by: Phil Hay
Peter Chung (also characters)
Matt Manfredi (also characters)

Directed by: Karyn Kusama

Release Date:
Theatrical: December 2, 2005
DVD: April 25, 2006

Running Time: 95 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for sequences of violence and sexual content

Starring Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Frances McDormand, Pete Postlethwaite, Amelia Warner, and Caroline Chikezie

In this futuristic sci-fi thriller set 400 years in the future, Charlize Theron stars as Aeon Flux, the top underground operative at war with the totalitarian regime governing what appears to be a perfect society. But is this perfect life hiding a perfect lie? Aeon is on the front lines of a rebellion that will reveal a world of secrets. (Paramount Pictures)

What The Critics Said

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75

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jason Anderson

It's all so geekily gorgeous, it hardly matters that the narrative lapses in and out of incoherence and the dialogue is functional at best.

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63

ReelViews James Berardinelli

The ideas underlying Aeon Flux's plot are the film's strength, and the filmmakers deserve some credit for doing more than paying lip service to them.

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60

Slate David Edelstein

Aeon Flux is not that terrible. It's certainly more fun than a lot of films that get lovingly showcased.

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58

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

The futuristic thriller is overly familiar and never especially gripping -- and too somber and cerebral for the young action crowd -- but it looks terrific and is in no way an embarrassment.

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50

Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder

By forcing definition on Flux, the filmmakers rob her of any allure. What do they offer instead? Clumsy exposition, bland PG-13 gunfights and subpar computer animation.

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50

LA Weekly Mark Olsen

The plot frequently resets/realigns itself in the fashion of "Lost" or "Alias," as good guys become bad guys, friends become enemies, and combatants become lovers. To portray confusion and uncertainty is one thing; to make a film this unsure of itself, wracked by its own faulty footing and reticence, is quite another.

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50

Premiere Ryan Devlin

What made Aeon Flux compelling and special as an animated series had everything to do with the medium and the freedom Chung was given to shape the story as he pleased. Take away those elements, and Aeon Flux becomes nothing more than middling science fiction, which is unfortunately what the film is.

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50

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Theron is an arresting image, but, like everything else in Aeon Flux, she's stranded in a trashy and derivative glum zone of fashion-runway fascism.

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50

Washington Post Desson Thomson

With the exception of a few enjoyable action scenes, such as when Aeon and fellow operative Sithandra (Sophie Okonedo) flip and backflip their way across a lethal garden of bullet-spewing trees and spikes disguised as blades of grass, Aeon Flux is surprisingly draggy.

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50

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

Kusama offers moments of inspiration, but it frustrates like hell that she couldn't nail it completely.

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40

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

While its heart is in the right place, Aeon Flux's head is just a little too high to make much sense.

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40

Village Voice Michael Atkinson

Gone are Chung's willfully irrational non sequitur surrealisms, vertiginous designs, dry humor, and physiological weirdness; now we have Charlize Theron trying to look icy, leaping about in resistance to a future dystopia that looks a lot like an overlandscaped European Union industrial park.

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40

The New York Times Dana Stevens

It's a movie best appreciated for the costumes, the sets and Ms. Theron's haughty athleticism.

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40

Variety Justin Chang

The future looks alternately grim and hysterical in Aeon Flux, a spectacularly silly sci-fier that plays like "The Matrix" crossed with "The Island" and reinterpreted as a long-lost Michael Jackson video.

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38

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

This live-action cartoon tries to walk the line between pleasing the faithful and appealing to a broad-based action audience. It fails on both fronts: It's too lifeless and watered-down to stand on its own high heels, but commits the cardinal sin of messing with the original.

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38

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

The wordless six-minute animé shorts - at the end of which our double-jointed heroine would always die - don't lend themselves to a 95-minute action movie where viewers might rightfully expect something to make sense.

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30

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

Smultaneously silly, ostentatious and terribly boring.

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25

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Aeon Flux is the sophomore picture from Karyn Kusama, who's first movie was a modest boxing film called "Girlfight." Here she's in over her head. The movie's sexual and scientific ideas never come through, and the characters would be fun only if they came with a joystick.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

It's hard to sit all the way through Aeon Flux while fully awake.

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20

Los Angeles Times John Anderson

If Aeon Flux is what Charlize Theron does to pay the bills while otherwise being engaged in "Monster" and "North Country," it's probably a reasonable price to pay. For her. For us? No, no, no.

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20

Empire Kim Newman

Depressing and trivial.

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10

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

Every rumor you’ve heard about this film is true; it’s an absolute wreck.

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0

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Aeon Flux is by far the year's worst movie, a most dubious achievement.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.2 (out of 10) based on 129 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Kevin gave it a1:
Awful overall. The characters are wooden, the acting uninspired, and the plot decent at best. On the plus side, the special effects are good, and Charlize Theron is extremely hot in skin tight clothing.

Bernard P. gave it a2:
Well id give it at least a 3 if it wasn't for the horrible aftertaste. I'm sorry but I am not sorry because this mediocre movie shows no respect to the trueness of what aeon flux was and still vaguely is. its disrespectful to the cartoon. 1/4

[Anonymous] gave it a7:
Though flawed, Aeon flux pulls some surprises with its occasionally brilliant concept of using cloning to further a society, and the action here and there helps out the pacing. It ultimately fails to match masterpieces like the matrix, partially b/c of its overly comic book look and awkward "final solution". But that doesn't mean it isn't a movie worth seeing.

Karen C. gave it a1:
This is the worst of simple eye candy. Very bad.

Mac T. gave it a10:
Rating this flick 10 just to offset the nonsense scores of zero. As scifi flicks go, I found this one to be very entertaining. Great concept, good execution, and a fine-looking film overall. A right-straight voodoo curse on all those who either cannot appreciate a good action pic or are so hung up on a specific comic concept that they can't enjoy an inexact adaptation.

Steve gave it a0:
Boring, poorly directed and poorly made movie. This is garanteed to put all but the most forgiving, or those that have some kind of dvd player that sits on you and forces you to watch this rubbish, to sleep. Aimed clearly at anime geeks that are looking for a fix of overly pretencious but utterly shallow and empty movie with no real innovation, talent or thought behind its story. Looks like its designed by some generic cloned art grad student.

Jason gave it a3:
Poorly scripted, poorly plotted, poorly acted and poorly made. In short a real disappointment.

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