I truly wanted to like this. It's a little too complex to make any sense in the amount of time it's presented in. I watched the DVD version & I get the feeling it's been edited to hell & beyond. You get the feeling this was supposed to be lots longer (especially seeing as there are 4 hours of bonus features on the DVD).
The film looks brilliant visually, but you can't sell a film on visuals alone. It turns out this was based on a cartoon (which I've never seen) so I wondered how much they were trying to remain true to the original concept. Charlize Theron looks incredible, her costumes certainly make the most of her figure and body. Pete Postlethwaite is pitifully underused. I like the locations and set designs, but the plot and storyline are a bit deep and hard to follow.
I think I only really understood the film as I watched it with the writers commentary on at the same time which explains a lot of things you may not otherwise get. Johhny Lee Miller is playing a bit too Americanised along with Paterson Joseph. Just because it's a Hollywood picture there was no reason they couldn't have retained their English Accents.
Aeon Flux is a kind of assassin trying to undermine a Utopian/Dystopian society where almost the whole population has died from some disease and everyone else lives in a perfect city. It's predictable that the wall around the perfect city is going to end up getting partially destroyed so people can go live on the rest of the planet.
It ends up that everyone is a clone and they are trying to have children naturally but this is already happening and those people are being killed by a mystery figure who is revealed at the end. Very weird film that does look great, has a bit of a weak ending and relies a little too much on visuals and action sequences to carry it.
Could have done with a much better explanation of the plot and been simplified a bit more.
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