![]() ![]() The person who can’t control those huge transitional moments is often the director. “New administrations at a studio typically see the movies from the prior administration as failures, and it’s tough to wrap your head around from a business perspective, from an ego part of the business. So, there were three administrations at Paramount during the life of the production and its eventual finish,” Kusama explained. While I was cutting the film, he left the studio and Brad Grey and Gail Berman came in. She transitioned out as head of the studio, and Donald De Line became the new head. “With Aeon Flux, it started out as a Sherry Lansing movie. RELATED: Charlize Theron's Best Movies Ranked By Box Office Success But Kusama couldn’t help but reflect back on what went wrong.Īnd for her, it seems that the movie had the misfortune of being made in the middle of a transition period for the studio. It’s a forgettable movie that tries too hard to aspire to something it could never be: worthy of the title Æon Flux.Both Theron and Kusama eventually recovered from their movie’s box office failure. If you can get through the opening sequence where Charliz Theron catches a fly with her eyelashes (which, by the way, isn’t anywhere near as cool as it was in the animated show), you’ll be able to handle everything else the film throws at you. Expect an uncut director’s edition in the not-so-distant future. Oftentimes it feels like the action has been dumbed down or edited to achieve a gratuitous, marketing friendly PG-13 rating. The movie manages to keep itself afloat for the full 90 minutes but just barely avoids crossing the line into “really awful movie” territory. Kusama demonstrates very little panache for the movie’s action sequences and the script doesn’t lend itself to anything exciting either. Perhaps that’s because Æon Flux was penned by the guys who brought us Jackie Chan’s The Tuxedo. The difference between that movie and Æon Flux is a tangible sense of humanity among the characters. ![]() Aeon Flux would play much better in 2020, says the movie’s star Charlize Theron. After all her only other film, Girlfight, was also a story about a girl coming to terms with her identity and making a career out of kicking butt and taking names while blazing a path for others to follow. By Dan Zinski Published The Old Guard star Charlize Theron says her maligned 2005 action movie flop Aeon Flux would be celebrated if it came out in today's world. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that Karyn Kusama was hired to direct. ![]() Poor Pete comes off looking like an old man stuck in an oversize, dried out Cheeto Puff, and his get-up makes Frances look even sillier. Only blackmail could explain Frances McDormand and Pete Postlethwaite’s willingness to wear their ridiculous costumes. The costuming and sets are also a huge disappointment, looking like designs stolen from The Fifth Element’s rejected concept trash can. When the Monicans send their best agent, Æon Flux, on a mission to kill the Chairman of the Goodchild council, she uncovers far more than the simple totalitarian regime she expected. ![]() While most folks are happy with this pseudo-Eden, a rogue part of the population known as the Monicans form a quiet rebellion against the Goodchilds, suspecting that the utopian world they live in is actually a vast conspiracy. There they live in peace and harmony under the rule of the Goodchild descendants for hundreds of years. Goodchild, managed to develop a cure for the disease and the remaining 5 million people on the planet flocked to his banner, living in the completely isolated city of Bregna. Æon Flux, played by the sadly miscast Charlize Theron, lives in a world where a horrible disease has ravaged nearly all of Earth’s population. That’s not to say that the movie doesn’t have its moments they’re just very few and very far between. The filmmakers have taken all that razor sharp edginess, dulled it until it was hardly fit to roll cookie dough, and handed us something that couldn’t cut paper but might come in handy for hitting yourself on the forehead, an activity you’ll no doubt feel a regular desire to partake in while watching. The story is based on a very edgy and stylized (and short-lived) animated series that was full of edgy characters engaged in all manner of edgy, stylistic fighting. ![]()
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