Movie Review: Aeon Flux


Another MTV movie... not a fiasco.

Yes. After the Napoleon Dynamite debacle I was wary of another MTC movie venture, but I was a big fan of Liquid Television way back when, back when MTV played videos, though I guess I should also say that Liquid Television was the beginning of the end- technically, LTV was not music videos. Ah, well.

So, Aeon Flux. Charlize in tight spandex. And leather. And nothing. OK... already better than Tomb Raider. Sci Fi world where a disease killed off 99% of the population. This is new to the Aeon Flux story. In the LTV series, we never knew why the assassin (she never had a name) was trying to kill her target, just that she always tried, and she always died.

The old series started every episode with her waking up. I always assumed it was designed to show yet another attempt to get it right, either a clone or android or some other device that looked like that same person.

Here, we get the signature fly-in-the-eyelashes opening sequence. Awesome effect.

So, in brief, the final word is this: I went in with low expectations (as opposed to the no expectations of XXX)- I was surprised, but not by much. The story, what there is of it, suffers from the disorienting cuts and the lack of a continuous setting- you can never tell where the action is taking place, because there are no references. The only real constant is the giant zeppelin circling the city, and, as I said, it is circling.

3 fluxes out of 5 with an extra capacitor for MTV finally making a movie almost anyone can sit through once.

Posted: Sat - December 10, 2005 at 08:23 PM      

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