Plot
Aeon Flux is a mysterious assassin working for the Monicans, a group of rebels trying to overthrow the government. When she is a sent on a mission to kill the Chairman, a whole new mystery is found.
Release Year: 2005
Rating: 5.4/10 (54,259 voted)
Critic's Score: 36/100
Director:
Karyn Kusama
Stars: Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sophie Okonedo
Storyline 400 years in the future, set in the year 2415, Aeon Flux is a mysterious assassin. Four centuries after a virus nearly annihilated the human race, leaving only five million survivors in a utopian city called Bregna. Aeon is struggling to destroy the Goodchild regime led by its namesake, Trevor Goodchild, the ruler of Bregna and a descendant of the man who found a cure for the deadly virus. As instructed by the Handler, Aeon is assigned to assassinate Goodchild, but there are deeper secrets to be discovered, and conspiracies to be foiled.
Writers: Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi
Cast: Charlize Theron
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Æon Flux
Marton Csokas
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Trevor Goodchild
Jonny Lee Miller
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Oren Goodchild
Sophie Okonedo
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Sithandra
Frances McDormand
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Handler
Pete Postlethwaite
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Keeper
Amelia Warner
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Una Flux
Caroline Chikezie
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Freya
Nikolai Kinski
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Claudius
Paterson Joseph
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Giroux
Yangzom Brauen
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Inari
Aoibheann O'Hara
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Scientist
Thomas Huber
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Scientist
Weijian Liu
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Scientist
Maverick Quek
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Chemist
Opening Weekend: $12,661,112
(USA)
(4 December 2005)
Gross: $25,857,987
(USA)
(5 February 2006)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia: Charlize Theron had trampoline training with Cirque du Soleil's Terry Bartlett.
Goofs:
Continuity:
Aeon's hair when she's in the cell.
Quotes:
[first lines]
Æon Flux:
[narrating]
Some called Bregna the perfect society. Some call it the height of human civilization. But others know better. The Goodchilds built Bregna to ensure us a future. They built the Relico, a memorial to remind us of what we've survived. They built walls to protect us...
User Review
Way better than you might expect
Rating: 8/10
We just got home from seeing Aeon Flux, and for my money, it turned out
to be far better than I had expected. Ready for an action movie with
lots of leaping, jumping and hero stuff, it was all of that - but more.
It actually had a story line! And it was that story line that kept
things moving nicely along.
I think that it's relatively short length (97 minutes) also helped it
from being bogged down with minutiae and having a plot that had to be
mercilessly stretched beyond its limits. The scenes were crisply
photographed, the special effects were enough to give the film its
character WITHOUT making it a special-effects movie, per se.
Although a little thin in some parts, the dialogue was fair. The only
thing I thought might have made it better was the development of some
of the peripheral characters.
Charlize Theron is very versatile, and now I fully intend to see the
anime of Aeon Flux.
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