Aeon Flux

It's always a freakin' virus, isn't it? Zombie movies: Virus. Post-Apocalyptic movies: Nuke or Virus. Greatest threat to humankind? Virus. No, it's not aliens, or even ourselves that serves as the easiest of plot devices, it's the virus. Poor bastards get used and abused for every damn story, just like in Aeon Flux that begins with mankind being almost wiped out over 400 years ago by some kind of virus.

Charlize Theron as an assassin (who looks good in that tight black outfit, by the way) who wants to set the dystopian Bregnan society straight by killing off their evil leader. She's almost kills her target, thinks twice, and later gets to know him biblically. Long story short, bad guy ends up being good guy and they're all clones that, for some inexplicable reason, retain memories of their old lives. All in all it wasn't a blockbuster but the cinematography was good (lots of cool, conceptual graphics and use of shapes and colors) and the concept was interesting enough. It's an interesting, if unrealistic play on the ideas of immortality.

Sci-fi: 2.5
Pop: 3
Action: 3.5

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