Ersbel Oraph This is an excellent example of anarchist dystopia: the government is secretly killing our agents so we are going to secretly kill its soldiers. You may call that the logic of the sharp knife. The next level is the syndicate bullying : we are many and you are going to bend upon our will. Anyway, anarchy will never be anything more than just a parasite on a functional society as the syndicalist society has trouble feeding its loyal subjects. And to kill, maim and lead the good war you need technology.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch

jimbo-53-186511 400 years after a deadly virus has wiped out 99% of the world's population a small group of survivors are living in Bregna which is the only city in the world which has any survivors. The majority of the population are happy living in this Utopia, but there are a small group of Bregna's population known as The Modicans who believe something sinister is happening within Bregna and are determined to overthrow this seemingly 'sinister' regime. One member of The Modican Aeon Flux (Charlize Theron) is tasked with the mission of killing the head of the regime Trevor Goodchild (Marton Coskas), but complications ensue for Flux during this mission as she starts to unravel the truth of what's going on in Bregna.As an action film Aeon Flux is serviceable and gets the job done in that respect; it's visually pleasing and is also complete with impressive fight choreography and stunt work. For these reasons it is a passable film if you're looking for something pretty to look at, but the story is really where most of the problems lie in this film....From the off we're lead to believe that Bregna houses many dark secrets and indeed the final reveal does explain away its many dark secrets. The problem here is that aside from the first 10 minutes and last 10 minutes of the film it fails to really elaborate on anything and seems to be content with keeping its audience in the dark as much as its patrons. The film moves from scene to scene fairly well and as a whole it has a nice kinetic flow to it, but it never seems to pause to reflect upon anything; we don't really get to see much evidence of the evil regime at Bregna, we don't learn anything about the Modicans or why they're so sure that The Goodchild Regime is a bad regime. There are several scenes where things happen that are never explained - the link between The Handler and The Modicans is vague and poorly developed. The film also has a whole host of flashbacks which seem to add very little to the story. It feels like one of those films that you're just supposed to accept things that happen rather than being one that you're able to accept because you understand how and why things happen.Although the narrative is threadbare for most of the running time it does explain everything at the end; although whilst watching the film it almost feels like one of those films where the filmmaker's believe that slapping a few twists at the end of the film will automatically make it clever and insightful. This approach can work, but a good story will give you information throughout and allow you to at least be able to try and piece things together yourself. The truth is that the material is too thin to actually make it a good story and the reveal to me felt like it was just there to give the film an ending rather than offer a thought-provoking reflection on what I had just watched. Even the social commentary at the end felt like a rather glib after-thought.Despite the multitude of problems, Aeon Flux is perfectly watchable when looked upon as merely an action film. However, the science-fiction aspect of the film is woefully underdeveloped and this aspect of the story isn't an entirely involving experience. Worth a look for action fans, but those looking for a decent story or anything remotely thought-provoking are unlikely to find these things here.

flingebunt Turning the brilliant Aeon Flux animation (not anime...it is not Japanese) into a movie is a fantastic challenge. The original work is about a morally ambiguous female character wearing impossible g- string armor who run around killing vast numbers of male antagonists creating lakes of blood, usually for the purpose of stealing something we don't really understand for purposes that are not stated. Oh and she usually dies at the end of each episode. The movie makers simply ignore this challenge and use the name for a character and plot which probably didn't have anything to do with the original while managing to include a few minor references to the source material. So as a fan of the original I have to take away points for misusing the name Aeon Flux. But then knowing that before seeing the movie, the question is, how does this movie fare?When it is a stylish movie with great action sequences, dull acting, annoying plot, pointless voice overs and silly love stories.If the movie had channeled the spirit of Peter Chung and cut all the dialogue and voice overs and this might just have been a decent movie.

Dark Jedi I am quite surprised, astounded even, that this movie has not received better ratings. It holds a meagre 5.5 at IMDb. Rotten Tomatoe's ratings are, as usual, pure nonsense with a 10% rating and a big rotten icon. Personally I think this is much undeserved. Yes the movie is a bit silly at times and yes it does not take a genius to figure out roughly what is about to happen nor what has happened in the "mysterious" past.Still the movie is visually stunning. I would not say that this is a special effects movie in the traditional sense. There are no insane outbursts of explosions, no car chases, no space fights. However, the scenery is quite good and the martial arts stunts are really really good. Maybe I am biased by the fact that I am a male and the main character happens to be a woman in (very) tight suits but to me many scenes where simply visual poetry. There is an especially noteworthy scene where Aeon and a colleague (who have hands instead of feet by the way) are traversing a "garden of death" in order to get to their target. The whole setup is fairly ludicrous. I mean, in an advanced, highly technological, society who would resort to so bizarre means of protecting their main base of operations? Regardless of that, the sequence is just so cool and visually pleasing.The first two thirds of the movie is probably the best. In the last third it goes a bit overboard with pretty ludicrous gun fights which pretty much defies any logic, science fiction or not. If you have seen old Western movies where the good guy just walks down the street against a hundred "baddies" who all constantly misses him as he, on the other hand, blasts them just by pointing his gun in the general direction…well then you get the picture.Charlize Theron was doing a quite good job of portraying Aeon Flux but my favourite actor was really Marton Csokas as Trevor Goodchild. His mostly calm yet quite imposing appearance was very enjoyable to watch. I had more difficulties with Jonny Lee Miller in the bad guy role. I felt that he was a bit bland but then I am watching Elementary on Netflix right now and there he is a so much more dynamic and impressive character.Anyway, if you are a science fiction fan, do watch this movie. It is much better than the ratings give it credit for as far as I am concerned.