Saw this movie today and it was almost as bad as what everyone else seems to think about it. The movie is actually based on the animation: Aeon Flux, which was released back in 1996. The story for the original may have been good for its time, but compared to the Matrix and other films and movies in this category, this story is as cliché as it can probably get. As a pure action non-thinking movie, it might work. There’s nice sceneries, nice cg, pretty women, and a lot of gun fire.
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IMDb: 5.3/10 (6,616 votes)
Yahoo! Movies: The Critics: C- / Yahoo! Users: C+
Rotten Tomatoes: RATING: ROTTEN / READING: 10%
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Story starts off immediately giving you the impression that the government is bad. In exchange for a perfect society or utopia, people give up their freedom and let the government oppress them.
There’s a group of rebels called the Monicans, if I haven’t mispelled it. Their sole purpose is to take down the government and Aeon Flux is their top agent (or if you can call them that). Anyway, they have some weird way of telecommunication which was never really explained who it work. It seems you dig through your skin and push onto a bone and then you enter this mode and you can talk to the handler, whatever she or it might be.
Story begins with Aeon Flux losing her sister because the government though the sister was part of the Monicans. At this point, Aeon Flux was already part of the Monicans and she blames herself for getting her sister involved. From that point on, she swores revenge on government.
So one thing that doesn’t make sense is the Goodwill Dynasty that lasted 400 years. The Monicans have a simplistic idea if you take out their head, everything will be all good. It also seemed that it’s been the same chairman for these past 400 years. I mean if that’s the case, obviously either immortailty has been discovered, or some cloning is taking place (given that humans still experience death).
I’m not going to get into the end game for this spoiler, but one of the things I never got was why the people were so stupid. Why has no one dared to exit the walls? Why has no one questioned (not even that Monicans) what that flying object is where all the cloning has taken place. I actually found it surprising that Aeon Flux was so surprsied to find out that everyone was a clone. Also another funny thing is in this futuristic society, the only way to tell if you’re pregnant was to go to this government agency. There was no over the counter 3minute results thing where you pee on, because as you might’ve guessed, the clones were inserted into the females, who don’t seem to have any fertility problems. I guess all the men just got unlucky and became sterile. There must also be no concept of DNA and how the father and mother must contribute half of the chromosomes. I wonder if parents in this society ever thought why their child didn’t look like them.
