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.
A failure even on the action-adventure/vicarious-butt-kicking level.
– John Anderson,
Newsday,
9 Dec 2005
rotten:
The enormous, and probably impossible, amount of style and wit required to resuscitate the original cartoon into something with real faces, bodies, gravity, and locations is beyond Kusama.
– Michael Atkinson,
Village Voice,
9 Dec 2005
rotten:
The performances are plastic...
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
rotten:
A slick-looking action movie with too much exposition and a weighty, pretentious tone.