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I personally have no tolerance for run-of-the-mill, predictable Hollywood movies that are saturated with clichés, so inevitably this movie received only one star from me. If you like all of the aforementioned qualities than by all means, see the movie.
Now, two things. One, I have not seen the animated series. Two, I could hardly bring myself to finish the movie. My mom bought it, knowing that I love action films. For her sake I've tried watching it four different times and it has never failed to make me wince in embarrassment. The first three times it found itself back in its case before an hour had passed.
The things I liked about this movie? You could practically taste the potential on your the tip of your tongue. I would prefer to watch a bit of the movie and then imagine how great the ending will be, and try to forget my utter disappointment. There were three things that contributed to my dislike for the film: characters, setting, and plot.
First, the characters. They were dull and underdeveloped for two reasons; they were written poorly and the actors, for the most part, were wooden and unconvincing. Goodchild is not much of a villain after his statement "But...it's wrong!" The real villain, as the viewer will soon find out, looks like someone who spent the better part of his life in a basement singing lullabies and crying himself to sleep. The redheaded lady can be described as nothing less than creepy and everyone else seems to just be convenient extras with the exception of our heroine, Aeon Flux, who leads the typical Hollywood double-life; on one hand she can be very emotional and sickeningly sensitive but in others looked like she could have slaughtered a classroom of kids and would simply brush it off as an unfortunate incident.Oh, and that scarf Theron wore to bed? I don't see the purpose of her even putting it on, she could have just slapped silly putty to her chest and other areas and called it a night. Same effect.
Now for the setting. The first few scenes were people walking down a street, etc, and then here comes Theron in her tight black leather costume, being "completely inconspicuous" among everyone else who's dressed as if it's still 2006. You'd think that for the last place on earth it would be more run-down but apparently not. They have everything you could possibly think of...or so it seems. We don't really get a real idea of the technology they have. They have flying machines, coconut-things that shoot spike-things, blades of grass that are actually grass-looking blades...but then people still need to prepare food manually, fashion hasn't changed, and as another user pointed out, houses are not what you'd expect from a futuristic location but have the comfortable greens and browns that tell of an era already passed. But THEN, you have teleporters and...I don't know. I'm getting confused just thinking about it.
Speaking of confusing, The plot fluctuates between the aforementioned quality, predictable, and just plain stupid. When the movie started I was confused, even with the help of the cheesy narrative. The good guys were bad guys, the bad guys were good and bad guys, and there was a varying level of ignorance in almost every character. Some people have claimed that there are amazing plot twists, but you know a twist isn't a twist when you saw it coming from a mile away. Besides that, it's a "i am hartles but not really!! look, here, want a cliché lol" movie and should have been scrapped.
I don't know what else to say about this film. The actors were irritating, the setting was unconvincing, and the plot was laughable. Thank you Hollywood for providing us with the chance to see an hour and a half of undiluted, unmitigated crap.
Don't see this movie.
score 1/10
zeleztial-eclipze 6 July 2006
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