Aeon Flux Critic Reviews

The ideas underlying Aeon Flux's plot are the film's strength, and the filmmakers deserve some credit for doing more than paying lip service to them.Read the full review

Aeon Flux is not that terrible. It's certainly more fun than a lot of films that get lovingly showcased.Read the full review

With the exception of a few enjoyable action scenes, such as when Aeon and fellow operative Sithandra (Sophie Okonedo) flip and backflip their way across a lethal garden of bullet-spewing trees and spikes disguised as blades of grass, Aeon Flux is surprisingly draggy.Read the full review

Theron is an arresting image, but, like everything else in Aeon Flux, she's stranded in a trashy and derivative glum zone of fashion-runway fascism.Read the full review

It's a movie best appreciated for the costumes, the sets and Ms. Theron's haughty athleticism.Read the full review

The future looks alternately grim and hysterical in Aeon Flux, a spectacularly silly sci-fier that plays like "The Matrix" crossed with "The Island" and reinterpreted as a long-lost Michael Jackson video.Read the full review

Smultaneously silly, ostentatious and terribly boring.Read the full review

It's hard to sit all the way through Aeon Flux while fully awake.Read the full review

Aeon Flux is the sophomore picture from Karyn Kusama, who's first movie was a modest boxing film called "Girlfight." Here she's in over her head. The movie's sexual and scientific ideas never come through, and the characters would be fun only if they came with a joystick.Read the full review