Movie Reviews: Aeon Flux

I'm decently happy with how the site looks now, though I'll likely tinker with it more as the days go by. But as long as I'm here, awake, and thinking about it, it's time to do a movie review. Some people try to give movies objective ratings, like they're some newspaper writer or something; I don't do that sort of thing. The ratings I'll be giving movies, games, or whatever are my entirely subjective opinion, and go from 0 to 10, where a 5 is neutral, 4 or less shows active disliking, 6 or more shows active liking. 10s and 0s will be rare, because those indicate that, in my opinion, it's unlikely that in the entirety of time, past and future, there is nothing that surpasses whatever it is I'm reviewing, for good or for bad. There may be equals, of course.

To give examples from movies I saw this year, Hitchhiker's Guide is a 6, Mr. and Mrs. Smith is a 7, Mirror Mask is a 9, Serenity is a 10. Mmm, Serenity.

For video games, I'll tell you the single 10 on my list and get it out of the way: Ico.

On with the review.

Aeon Flux
Category: Movies
Rating: 8

I try to avoid reading any detailed reviews of movies before going into them, so that I don't have expectations about what it's going to be like (or worse, spoilers about the plot). I do tend to go see movies based on recommendation though, which in this case was Joe saying, "Yeah, I want to go see it, it's this sci-fi talky action movie." And I agree: Aeon Flux is sci-fi talky action. Now, I like talky movies, and I like action movies; the only times I'll complain "less talking, more shooting!" or "less shooting, more talking!" is when the one I want less of is being done poorly. Aeon Flux falls into neither of these categories, as both the action scenes and the explanations for why the people are taking said actions are done well.

Descriptions of both the fighting and the talking will have to be vague, however, since I don't know how to describe choreography and I'm not going to spoil plot. I will say, however, that for neither category did I ever think, "Okay, that could never happen." The plot was plausible all the way through, and for example, when people got shot and lived, they were wounded for the rest of the movie. The lead character, Aeon Flux herself, did sort of forget some of her earlier wounds as time went on, but she's a trained assassin and presumably is used to working despite minor injuries.