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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe ideas underlying Aeon Flux's plot are the film's strength, and the filmmakers deserve some credit for doing more than paying lip service to them.
- 60SlateDavid EdelsteinSlateDavid EdelsteinAeon Flux is not that terrible. It's certainly more fun than a lot of films that get lovingly showcased.
- 58Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldSeattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldThe futuristic thriller is overly familiar and never especially gripping -- and too somber and cerebral for the young action crowd -- but it looks terrific and is in no way an embarrassment.
- 50Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonWith the exception of a few enjoyable action scenes, such as when Aeon and fellow operative Sithandra (Sophie Okonedo) flip and backflip their way across a lethal garden of bullet-spewing trees and spikes disguised as blades of grass, Aeon Flux is surprisingly draggy.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanTheron is an arresting image, but, like everything else in Aeon Flux, she's stranded in a trashy and derivative glum zone of fashion-runway fascism.
- 38TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThis live-action cartoon tries to walk the line between pleasing the faithful and appealing to a broad-based action audience. It fails on both fronts: It's too lifeless and watered-down to stand on its own high heels, but commits the cardinal sin of messing with the original.
- 38New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardThe wordless six-minute animé shorts - at the end of which our double-jointed heroine would always die - don't lend themselves to a 95-minute action movie where viewers might rightfully expect something to make sense.
- 25Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisAeon Flux is the sophomore picture from Karyn Kusama, who's first movie was a modest boxing film called "Girlfight." Here she's in over her head. The movie's sexual and scientific ideas never come through, and the characters would be fun only if they came with a joystick.
- 10Film ThreatPete Vonder HaarFilm ThreatPete Vonder HaarEvery rumor you’ve heard about this film is true; it’s an absolute wreck.
- 0New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickAeon Flux is by far the year's worst movie, a most dubious achievement.