disgusting, overrated, pointless

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The message. And Charlize Theron. A Sci. Fi. And nice story about dictatorship, freedom and love. Fight scenes and great special effects. And the right rythm for a large target.Short, new level of cartoon characters.

It starts off strong and is pretty true to the animated original. Theron is excellent and I loved the casting- though thrown by the non-blond Chairman at first. Also top marks for an super ethnically diverse cast of all genders which was amazing considering it was made in 2005. Visually everything is quite stunning, decors are fantastic, costumes, gadgets... Then, about half way in, things take a turn for the worse. It's really too bad. You can really tell where the producers cut the movie to shreds from Kusama's original edit. You're left with a hollow, almost hokey and mind numbingly simplistic plot reveal. The last 20 minutes of the film is a wash, even the final action sequences are terrible: confusing and even worse, boring. I was left feeling disappointed and wishing for a directors cut.

This Live Action take on the Anime TV Series Suffers from, well it Suffers from Many Things, but it isn't an Awful Film as some Purist would have You Believe. It's just Not Much of Anything. The PG-13 Rating Kills the Many Action Sequences.In the Movie "Aeon", the "A" is Silent and Pronounced "Eon", is a Futuristic Super-Model-Kick-Butt member of an Earth Society that Survived a Plague and They are Provided with a "Gilded Cage" by Overlords that seem to Live in a Floating Flying Saucer Thing, have Mega-Computers, and Speak with Fork-Tongues.It's all very Complicated and the Movie doesn't go to any length to Try and Explain what's Going On, except in the Broadest Terms. It seems to be more Interested in Fashion and Fights, both Highly-Stylized and Frenetic to keep the Audience Distracted from the Vagueness of it all.The Movie is Easy on the Eyes just like Aeon (Charlize Theron) but is Lacking Something, that is to say, almost Everything that makes this Sort of Thing Entertaining. It's Shallow, Plodding, Confusing, and Dull most of the time and might be more Accessible to those Familiar with the Series.It's Not Much Fun, and Fails to Capture that Sci-Fi, Action, Modern Vibe that it is assumed was its Goal. Although it's Hard to Say what was On the Mind of MTV and the Filmmakers but whatever it was, it's Worth Rethinking.

Just feels so...meh.Set in the year 2415, four hundred years after a virus wipes out all the humans on Earth except those in one city. That city was saved due to one inhabitant, Dr Goodchild, discovering an anti-virus. The city is now a (seemingly) benevolent dictatorship, run by the descendants of Dr Goodchild. However, strange things are afoot, thanks to the government. A rebel group does exist though and it counts among its members one Aeon FLux...Though the broad plot didn't seem overly original there was some room for an interesting story. That potential is wasted through style-over-substance direction which disguises a fairly weak and silly plot. The director does her best to create an air of mystery and suspense but this involves meaningless scenes, just there to confuse the audience. Cue the inevitable action scenes and explosions...Performances are pretty weak too. Charlize Theron seems listless as Aeon Flux. The character had the potential to be a great symbol for female empowerment through being a strong, invincible female action figure. Yet the writer and director hedge their bets and make her also a femme fatale and a sullen mysterious figure (to go with the superficial mystery of the movie). No wonder Theron seemed out of it - the character was so inconsistent!The remainder of the cast seem to be phoning it in too.