Aeon Flux (2005 Film) Review.
This is not Aeon Flux. Also, this is Aeon Flux. This film, as has been happily pointed out to me by my spouse, is a sort of thriller, gadget filled spy flick with a Bond'esque reliance on traps and gadgets. It is also, as pointed out my brother, a Wachowski coded slightly sensually coded film filled with inexplicable desire and bizarre sometimes sexually charged instances out of nowhere, based around two who've drifted apart coming closer together. To me? Aeon Flux is something that fits quite easily despite its premise into something I would describe as 'comfortable'. A world where a diseases was cured but ninety nine percent of the human population died; so the remnant of humanity, led by Trevor Goodchild, but a resistance group with its prominent agent, Aeon Flux, are out to stop him. Or is that what it seems? The film enjoys the idea of twisting on the narrative and introducing reveals upon reveals, with an unfurling desire to show off 'look, look at the layers...