and it is beautiful!!
Perhaps I ought to tell first that I am seriously interested in photography and a well photographed film automatically has my attention. I can say that Aeon Flux is visually stunning. And not just Charlize Theron. It is rare that so much care has been taking with all aspects of lighting, props, styling etc. The DP has a definite penchant for architecture in concrete. I wonder how much is location and how much is sets. Anyway it photographs beautifully. The action scenes are very well done as well.
And the plot? Well, there is one. I didn't notice much, because I was too busy analysing the photography. It is nothing you haven't seen before: utopian city amid wilderness with a dark secret. The lines are delivered breathlessly while staring into space, in the style popularised by Roy Dupuis and Peta Wilson in La Femme Nikita. No doubt somebody thinks this is cool.
As I said, it is the most visually attractive film I've seen for a long time.
I have seen too and didn't like it. I am a huge fan of the cartoon and felt it was huge let down. The cartoon was very strange and I had a feeling the a movie wouldn't due it justice. I agree It was visually attractive but nothing else going for it like plot.
I've never seen the cartoon, so I can't comment on how good an adaption it was. I agree that except the visuals, the movie had little going for it, but what visuals!!!!!
I might watch it. I've seen little snippets of it here and there. True, the visuals caught my eye but the actors all seemed really, really bored. Never a good sign.
The boredom is intentional. The characters are weary of life and crushed by existential despair .
Doesn't help in holding the viewer's interest, though.
The only thing I liked about the tv show was how strange it was... it almost made wonder if the main characters had some sort of mental illness. Beyond that, I have little interest in leather/ spandex/ armor suited antiheroes who look like they just need a hug. This is little more than an updated version of Mad Max... want to impress me or draw me in to watch a film in a theater? Make a movie about an antihero in a real world setting, instead of an absurdist future where the locks are all in place and only a single person can fight off the oppressors. For some reason, Hollywood making a film about how businesses and corrupt politicians are building the walls thicker and higher while trying to cram us all into cubicles seems just too risky to dare make lest someone get offended. How freedom ends is apparently less economically viable than how the last man standing goes out in a blaze of glory. Do I sound annoyed?