I was very attracted to the original shorts which appeared on Liquid Television/Mtv in the 1990's. I would live for each Friday night when I was able to watch a new episode. The shorts were great because it was conflict between an assassin which was always on a mission to steal some information or object, then later kill what appear to be an evil scientist.The Aeon Flux I knew would always have to sneak across a wall or barrier of some sort, covered with drones and guns, using stealth and technology to evade death.This movie has very little to do with the original series and is a good example of how fat cats in board rooms should tinker with the ideas of an artist. This movie is strictly about making some profit rather than creating quality.While the movie is entertaining in some respects, it has many fatal flaws and plot devices which appear just in time to move the move along. The love interest is very weak. The plot is even weaker. The only thing going for this movie is that the special effects are cool.I don't even think the casting was good enough. Goodwin is more European and has a thick German accent. Aeon Flux is thinner and taller. There are other choices for actors which would have fit the characters better.Overall I enjoyed the movie but did not think it was good enough. It seems to be from a cookie cutter design, typical of Hollywood trying to put out quantity rather than quality.

It is completely different from the series, in a very very bad way. It is overly-stylized and seems clinically clean, which is basically the opposite of what the animation in the series was all about. The dialogues are awful, and the whole story is non-original (as again opposed to the stories of the series).The worst part probably is the relationship between Aeon Flux and Trevor Goodchild. In the series their relationship is on a very weird level between "let's kill each-other" and "let's f#ck'. In the film Trevor goes from presumably bad guy (in fact he never really does anything morally wrong) to TEAMING UP with Aeon in order to fight the REAL bad guys, which later on in the film seize power and were betraying Trevor the whole time. The whole relationship is not only dumbed-down, but completely different as well.My conclusion is that it's okay to make a big-budget retarded action film with cringe-worthy one-liners and clichéed dialogue, as long as the person doing it doesn't buy an already established brand, only to sell more of their sh#t. I mean if the names of the characters and so on had been changed I wouldn't have realized that it was 'based' on the series, and maybe I would have given it 4/10, but like this it's more of an insult as well, so 2/10 right in your face (not that anyone would care).Also, anyone who claims that the people hating this film "don't understand it" are f#cking morons.

This film asserts an old fashioned philosophy that aging and death are enriching and timely aspects of life...It us worth remembering: Nowadays us humans are on the verge repairing aging... This film struggles to depict some kind of dystopia derived from the same 1000 or so human genomes in the city being re-inseminated back in to the population... As if cloning magically includes traces of memory... and thus the original clonee themselvesThe science is week to non existent in this movieBut yeah sure... Don't clone for replacements continually; meiosis does a far better job maintaining a good strong population/species... But as an individual, you can't have too much of a good thing... And when humans do break biological limitations on life span this movie's message or moral about death and making way for the next generation will seem silly... You're worthless and irrelevant until you exist, so it follows that it's nobler to preserve those who are than as many those that could be

Turning the brilliant Aeon Flux animation (not anime...it is not Japanese) into a movie is a fantastic challenge. The original work is about a morally ambiguous female character wearing impossible g- string armor who run around killing vast numbers of male antagonists creating lakes of blood, usually for the purpose of stealing something we don't really understand for purposes that are not stated. Oh and she usually dies at the end of each episode. The movie makers simply ignore this challenge and use the name for a character and plot which probably didn't have anything to do with the original while managing to include a few minor references to the source material. So as a fan of the original I have to take away points for misusing the name Aeon Flux. But then knowing that before seeing the movie, the question is, how does this movie fare?When it is a stylish movie with great action sequences, dull acting, annoying plot, pointless voice overs and silly love stories.If the movie had channeled the spirit of Peter Chung and cut all the dialogue and voice overs and this might just have been a decent movie.