saffell

Expect nothing and you will be pleasantly surprised by "Aeon Flux." There was way too little character development for some of the roles and the dialogue was pure tripe, but the movie on the whole impressed me. It was visually on par with what I would expect from today's futuristic, technocratic, dystopian films. Charlize Theron was well cast as the lead (mostly because she's hot as all get out) and the action scenes were well-shot and well-done.

The movie only lacked appropriate character development, as I stated earlier, as well as emotion from the actors. The actors were like the stone-cold people from Libria, the fantasy nation from the earlier Christian Bale movie, "Equilibrium," in which the people were regularly dosed to suppress their emotions. In "Aeon Flux," though, there is nothing to explain why the people in the film would be so horribly like automatons, so it comes off rather poorly, especially in the dialogue, which leaves a lot to be desired.

Overall, though, I went into the theater expecting nothing and I was pleasantly surprised. The film seemed to have a cogent and well-laid plot that even took some twists I didn't expect. I quite liked the whole she-bang, though I would recommend only seeing it in theaters for the visuals. If you are interested in content, then you may as well wait until it comes out on DVD. Finally, I would certainly never recommend it to die-hard followers of the cartoon for they would be the harshest critics and surely the most disappointed by the film on the whole. So there you have it, expect nothing and be rewarded or expect a lot and be disappointed.