[grady]

Holy Jebus this was a pile of shit, or a train wreck as animal boything pointed out.

I took this in on a whim and since it was free why not be able to say I saw that film in the cinema. After about 15 minutes I started trying to imagine a different film, or a different chain of events.

Like say, they fired the director half way through and brough in Wong Kar-Wai because some idiot exec. at Paramount saw the 2046 trailer and thought it was entirely a sci-fi piece and baited Wong Kar-Wai with enough money and gave him unlimited time and space and money to work with because the go to guy in situations like this, Renny Harlin(see Exorcist prequel) was unavailable.

Suddenly Aeon Flux no longer has a script that they're shooting from but instead a one page treatment composed of three dense paragraphs. Suddenly the film bares no resemblence to the original cartoon and becomes something else.

Cue the Film Comment cover story. Cue the New York Times Sunday Magazine 'think piece' by AO Scott on the films 'post-modern symbolic referencing to current events.'

One can imagine these things.

I almost left the film but I wanted to see how bad it was, and since I wasn't paying it didn't matter.