Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]I am not 100% certain of this, but I am fairly certain that with the subsequent success of, Johnny Mnemoic (1995) and the release and subsequent success of ‘The Matrix’ franchise, (both of which are great movies that starred Keanu Reeves), that the studios started working on big budget Science Fiction movies that had to do with a specific hero that has very unique powers that they had kind of been given to them at least to some extent…
Now there is something interesting that I thought that I would mention about these types of films. First off usually these types of movies tend to have big budget talent working on them, and they often are pretty well made, but oddly enough, don’t seem to do really good in the box office (or in some cases never made it on to the big screen!)
A few examples of course of these types of films being:
1. Equilibrium (2002), a fun movie that starred Christian Bale (The Dark Knight Rises) before he became the, ‘Batman’, and worked to take down a drugged out advanced society…
2. Another one is Ultraviolet (2006), a movie which starred, Milla Jovovich (The Fifth Element)… Now this movie was sort of a bland and extremely far-fetched attempt to show how a super soldier can take on her masters and win (some times going so far as to take out 100 guys at a time….)
And the last one that I thought that I would mention here is the movie, Aeon Flux (2005)… Now this movie which was written by Phil Hay (Clash Of The Titans), Matt Manfredi (The Tuxedo) and directed by Karyn Kusama (Girlfight), and which starred: Charlize Theron (Prometheus), Martin Csokas (xXx), Jonny Lee Miller (Hackers), Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanada), Frances McDormand (Almost Famous), and Pete Postlethwaite (Inception) was great!
You see this movie told the story of how after a plague nearly wipes mankind off of the face of the planet, one man ends up curing the human race… The only problem is that there appears to be unforeseen consequences that he and his future generations will race against the clock to try and fix before the end of the world really comes!
Now of course no one knows about this, and everyone appears to have been relegated to one major city (The last major city on Earth)… and a rebel group by the name of, ‘The Monacans’ have decided to try and stop the reign of the governments tyranny against the population, and they are about to get their chance…
You see, The Monacans have gotten their opportunity to strike at Chancellor Goodchild (Csokas), and end up sending in their assassin, by the name of Aeon Flux (Theron) to assassinate him… but by the time she gets their she ends ups getting more then she bargained for and ultimately ends up fighting with the one man she has sworn to fight against!
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Some times she even surprises herself with just how good she is![/caption]Now I thought this movie had a great concept (which, so that I don’t ruin it for you guys I won’t be saying.) I also thought that this movie was very well written and acted, and some fun action scenes that should keep you on the edge of your seat… In the end, the only thing that I really thought was dumb, was the special effects and the over use of the concept of genetic engineering to cure all ills (including some sort of weird tiny little light switch in the back of the Monacans that could be used as a telephone, and some sort of plant life that shot spikes like machine guns…
All in all though definitely a fun one, and one that you guys might like as well!
http://youtu.be/wQ2LSS2QA2c
