A slick-looking action movie with too much exposition and a weighty, pretentious tone.
Æon Flux
The perfect world meets the perfect assassin.
2005 · 1h 33m · PG-13
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Karyn Kusama
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Æon Flux
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Karyn Kusama Director
- Charlize Theron as Æon Flux
- Marton Csokas as Trevor Goodchild
- Jonny Lee Miller as Oren Goodchild
- Sophie Okonedo as Sithandra
- Frances McDormand as Handler
- Pete Postlethwaite as Keeper
- Amelia Warner as Una Flux
- Caroline Chikezie as Freya
- Nikolai Kinski as Claudius
- Paterson Joseph as Giroux
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
The performances are plastic...
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.
A failure even on the action-adventure/vicarious-butt-kicking level.
It probably looked like a good idea on paper.
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