Rotten
A slick-looking action movie with too much exposition and a weighty, pretentious tone.
Tasha Robinson, AV Club
Æon Flux
The perfect world meets the perfect assassin.
2005 · 1h 33m · PG-13
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Karyn Kusama
Overview
400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.
Director and cast
- Karyn Kusama Director
- Charlize Theron as Æon Flux
- Marton Csokas as Trevor Goodchild
- Jonny Lee Miller as Oren Goodchild
- Sophie Okonedo as Sithandra
- Caroline Chikezie as Freya
- Pete Postlethwaite as Keeper
- Yangzom Brauen as Inari
- Frances McDormand as Handler
- Amelia Warner as Una Flux
- Nikolai Kinski as Claudius
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
9%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The performances are plastic...
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out
Rotten
The enormous, and probably impossible, amount of style and wit required to resuscitate the original cartoon into something with real faces, bodies, gravity, and locations is beyond Kusama.
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
Rotten
A failure even on the action-adventure/vicarious-butt-kicking level.
John Anderson, Newsday
Rotten
It probably looked like a good idea on paper.
Mark Olsen, L.A. Weekly
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