Synopsis
400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.
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Cast
- Charlize TheronÆon Flux
- Marton CsokasTrevor Goodchild
- Jonny Lee MillerOren Goodchild
- Sophie OkonedoSithandra
- Frances McDormandHandler
- Pete PostlethwaiteKeeper
- Amelia WarnerUna Flux
- Caroline ChikezieFreya
- Nikolai KinskiClaudius
- Paterson JosephGiroux
Recommendations
- 63
ReelViews
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. - 60
Slate
Aeon Flux is not that terrible. It's certainly more fun than a lot of films that get lovingly showcased. - 58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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. - 50
Washington Post
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. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
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. - 38
TV Guide Magazine
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. - 38
New York Daily News
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. - 25
Boston Globe
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.
