AEON FLUX - 18/2/06

• On the whole I found this film to be mildly entertaining and a fairly enjoyable experience. I can presume it's lack of box office success was probably due to no really major stars and the fact that it wasn't constant mind-numbing action all the way through, which probably would have detracted from it's storyline. It's an intelligently well made film; with probably a rather thin plot, but it's it's own creature and that's all to the better for it.
  
  • Note from the pictures the scope of the scale that the location filming gave to the film and just exactly what a feel it gave to the mood of the movie. The story has a couple of twists and won't really tax anyone to hard in following what is actually going on. Again the film has a strong element of "The Island" in it; more so than the other film's I will mention later, but it still has enough of it's own panache and style to give it a seperate identity.
    
    • The action in this hour and a half is well restrained and that may make the film seem slow - But when you dive straight into the attack on the President you have a visceral view of plants firing drug needles across the screen in rattling terror as they shred foliage and clip the assassin's arms. The guards fire screw-tipped blades from multi-barrelled guns slicing into doors and furniture in amazing detail and there is some excellent hand-to-hand combat in later scenes as well.
      
      • This is another of these films that you immediately have to suspend your disbelief of the actions and get straight into the story of two opposing groups fighting for a different type of future for their society. It has certain themes of Orwell's "1984" which come across well as a society ruled by a benevolent dictatorship. It also has trait's of "Equilibrium" about the use of a fascist Police Force to keep order and control of the population.
        
        

        • I was led to believe that this film flopped big time in the States? Can't understand why - Because it remind's me in some way of an updated "Logan's Run" in some of it's plot threads. It is filmed on a grand scale with a wondrous view of a future society plagued with a benign conspiracy behind a conspiracy. The locations filmed in Germany come across on a new level and this fits well with the overall feel of the film - As a society living in a future enclave.
          If you feel this would entertain you give it a go!