Aeon Flux

2005 Sci Fi

Based on the animated series by Peter Chung, Aeon Flux imagines a future in which 99 percent of the world's population is killed through industrial disease, and the survivors live in a single city that, despite utopian appearances, is quite totalitarian. Disinclined to embrace any particular ideology outside of a hatred for Trevor Goodchild (Marton Csokas), the leader of the council that governs the walled city, hyper-sexualized assassin Aeon Flux (Charlize Theron) seeks to bring about a revolution. Retaining the title character's trademark jet-black hair and sleek, revealing clothing, this film adaptation fleshes out the story behind the sexual and romantic tension between Aeon and Trevor.

Director: Karyn Kusama

Starring: Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Frances McDormand

 40 Reviews  1 Awards

Reviews

  • 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.

    Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly

    29 November 2012

  • 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.

    Desson Thomson - The Washington Post

    29 November 2012

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

    Dana Stevens - The New York Times

    29 November 2012

  • Smultaneously silly, ostentatious and terribly boring.

    Michael Rechtshaffen - The Hollywood Reporter

    29 November 2012

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

    Mick LaSalle - The San Francisco Chronicle

    29 November 2012

Awards

  • Golden Trailer Awards (2006)

     

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