We saw Aeon Flux on Friday, just because. 

I don’t know anything about the background of it, but it seems like it must be based on a book or a series, because the world was just too well realised for it not to be.  There were too many things that were just too out there for them to have been thought up just to put into a two-hour or so flick.  These things generally added to the film, rather than detracted… they’ve also made me want to go and chase it up.

Charlize Theron was pretty good, I thought.  Aeon was a moderately complex character, and she did it well.  I didn’t recognise the name Martin Csorza, but I certainly recognised him – having looked him up on IMDB, I’m not surprised:  Celeborn in LOTR, among others.  He too was great.

The world of the film was glorious.  The costumes were a bit weird, in some cases – J reckons that that’s part of what makes cinematic scifi scifi – but the buildings and the design were brilliant. 

The plot twists were magnificent, completely unexpected, and completely believable in the context.  It was a good movie, over all. 

 *edit* Turns out it’s based on an MTV series from the mid-90s.  Too bad there’s no book to find.