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Aeon Flux (DVD)
Starring:
Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Frances McDormand
Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Available on DVD: Apr 25th 2006

Review By:
Mike Masri

School:
Brooklyn College

Favorite Quote:
"This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time." Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden in Fight Club
, which starred Christian Bale and had a similar premise. As far as a love story I see where they were trying to go with Aeon Flux , but it didn't quite do it for me.

The movie started off good and had a somewhat interesting ending, but I felt that there was about a half hour in the middle where the film kind of lost me. This was very surprising to me since I usually enjoy these types of films and stories. The most captivating part of the movie was probably Theron herself in her array of sexy and revealing outfits she wears throughout the film.

Besides Theron and the stunts there was also one other refreshing quality to this film. The film played up this angle of nature being bad, which I found flowed nicely throughout the film. My critical eye couldn't help but appreciate the fact that the disease came from nature as well as a variety of the traps and obstacles, which Flux had to deal with.

Special Features

The features on this DVD are pretty good for a sub-par film. They include two feature long commentaries, which I'm not sure many would get through cause for most it would mean watching this film three times. However, the more interesting features include one on the idea of the movie and its transition from an animated series and another on creating the world where the movie takes place.

The most interesting feature on this DVD has to be "The Stunts of Aeon Flux ". This shows how many of the stunts were created as well as the training sessions, which not only Theron , but many of the cast had to endure.

Movie Grade: C+
Special Features Grade: B
Overall DVD Grade: C+



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