Æon Flux 2005

Critics score:
10 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: Ten years ago, Chung's animated Aeon Flux was groundbreaking, inspirational. It still is. Maybe another spin through Chung's Flux DVD set will wipe away all memory of its middling live-action cousin. Read more

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Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Paramount Pictures and MTV Films blatantly tried to keep the movie, which debuted Friday, away from critics to prevent opening-day reviews. For good reason. Hollywood suits didn't want anyone to know how utterly boring the movie is. Read more

Tasha Robinson, AV Club: A slick-looking action movie with too much exposition and a weighty, pretentious tone. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Thanksgiving is over, but those gluttons still hungry for turkey should enjoy picking at the carcass of Aeon Flux. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Theron plays Aeon as a reluctant cipher who yearns to get back to a real existence. By the end, you'll know the feeling. Read more

Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: There's no way to say it but to come right out with it: Aeon Flux is a good movie. Actually, it's a really good movie. Read more

Mark Olsen, L.A. Weekly: It probably looked like a good idea on paper. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: A failure even on the action-adventure/vicarious-butt-kicking level. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: The picture climaxes with the crashing of a blimp, an image that encapsulates the Hindenburg scale of its failure. Read more

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: In the dystopian future, apparently, women will be bendable Barbies in leather scanties, and everyone will speak like brain-dead robots. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It's not terrible. It's not so bad that it's fun. Aeon Flux doesn't rhyme with 'flux.' It's just watchably bad, which is no reason to watch it at all. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Although it would be difficult to laud this movie as being anything stronger than mediocre, it is superior to what one would reasonably expect from something Paramount was trying to keep under wraps. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: One would figure, after 400 years of bad action movies, that leaders would learn: If a woman comes at you dressed in a tight jumpsuit, duck. Read more

David Edelstein, Slate: Folks, I'll never understand studios. Aeon Flux is not that terrible. It's certainly more fun than a lot of films that get lovingly showcased. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: The performances are plastic... Read more

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Justin Chang, Variety: Spectacularly silly. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: The enormous, and probably impossible, amount of style and wit required to resuscitate the original cartoon into something with real faces, bodies, gravity, and locations is beyond Kusama. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Kusama seems to spend most of her energy rendering Theron in perfect poses and lighting schemes. Read more