For the movie, the character of Aeon is is given a thorough makeover. For 400 years, the Goodchilds reigned over Bregna, a walled utopia where life was wonderful, if you didn’t ask any questions about the people who routinely disappeared… and you didn’t mind the occasional strange vision or nightmare.Īeon is the top operative in the Monican underground, led by The Handler ( Frances McDormand), who is trying to discover the truth behind the disappearances and the Goodchild family’s totalitarian regime. In 2011, a virus killed all but 5 million people, who were saved by Trevor Goodchild and moved into the walled city of Bregna. “Aeon Flux”, the movie, is about the last remaining human city on the planet. (This usually means the movie is a dud and the studio wants to rake in as much money as possible over opening weekend, before it is trashed by the critics.) Well, I’m happy to say that I found the movie to be a surprisingly good sci-fi adventure. Then Paramount announced that it would not screen “Aeon Flux” for the press. The online rumor-mill had a field day with “Flux”: it wasn’t true to the original series, Theron only did it for the money, she chose to perform her own stunts, which led to a back injury that stopped production for a month, etc. The action sequences also looked well-done, paying homage to the fast-paced, superhuman acrobatics from the cartoon. For starters, Aeon’s costume covers her entire body (almost), and she is played by Oscar-winner Charlize Theron. When I first saw the trailer for the “Aeon Flux” movie, it looked much different than the ultra-violent, sexually explicit cartoon I remembered. The cartoons were excessively violent and Aeon was very scantily clad, with bondage and lesbianism also thrown into the mix. (She died at the end of every episode.) She was also in love with a ruthless dictator named Trevor. I recall that Aeon was an “amoral” agent, working only for herself, who routinely dispatched hundreds of enemy soldiers, single-handedly, before dying. I vaguely remember the “Aeon Flux” animated short films that aired on M-TV in the mid-90’s.
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