Aeon Flux 2005

     Aeon Flux is the name of a mysterious assassin working for the Monicans.  This is a group of rebels trying to overthrow the current government.  When she is sent on a mission to kill the Chairman, a whole new mystery is uncovered.  The setting is in the future in the year 2415.  This is four centuries after a virus nearly annihilated the human race.  99% of the population died because of an industrial disease and the survivors live in one city.  Only five million people are left in a utopian city called Bregna.  Aeon is struggling to destroy the Goodchild regime led by its namesake, Trevor Goodchild.  He is the ruler of Bregna and a descendant of the man who found a cure for the deadly virus.  As instructed by the Handler, Aeon is assigned to assassinate Goodchild but there are deeper secrets to be discovered and conspiracies to be foiled.

     This film follows an assassin on her mission and it includes violent, bloody scenes with repeated martial arts fights.  There are sounds of bones breaking, stabbings, shootings with automatic weapons as well as sniper-style guns.  There is a woman's murdered by government agents.  She opens the door and she is expecting someone else?  The film cuts from her surprised face to the next scene.  There are explosions of buildings and a floating blimp-like lab.  Several on-screen deaths of recognizable characters (villains and seeming to be heroes).  Characters wear form-fitting futuristic clothing, some resemble bondage gear and one character makes a brief, joking reference to bondage as sexual practice.  Aeon appears nude, she rises from bed and her back is to the camera, a couple kisses then has (implied) sex.  Music is loud and pounding during chase and fight scenes.  There are also some semi-complex conversations concerning the ethics of cloning humans.  3* (This movie is OK)

93 min, Action directed by Karyn Kusama and written by Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi and Peter Chung with Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller Spohie Okonedo, Frances McDormand, Peter Postlethwaite, Amelia Warner, Nikolai Kinski,Paterson Joseph, Yangzom Brauen, Aoibheann O’Hara, Thomas Huber, Weijian Liu, Maverick Quek.

Note:  Imdb 5.5* out of 10* with 123,994 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 9% with 107 reviews 39% audiences score with 250,000+ ratings, Common Sense Media Cynthia Fuchs, age 14+, 2* out of 5*, Metacritc 36 out of 100 with 23 critic reviews, 5.6 out of 10 with 230 user scores, reel views.net 2 1/2* out of 4* James Berardinelli, Amazon 4.4* out of 5* with 1423 reviews.