Grade: D | Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
Summary: While its not completely unwatchable, thanks to Charlize modeling this season's Frederick's of Hollywood line, there's not much here to concern yourself with. The slick veneer is impenetrable for good reason. There's nothing beneath.

It was this time two years ago that we were taken aback with shock and awe over the transformation that the stunning Charlize Theron took to morph into the stomach turning Eileen Wuornos in Monster. Her portrayal was akin to crawling into the skin of the serial killer and having her mail forwarded. It seemed to be Charlize's shot across the bow saying, "I will not be written off as just another pretty face in Hollywood." Oh the difference a couple years make. Her latest sci-fi picture takes that equation and flips it on its head. Aeon Flux is a glossy airbrushed feature, overweighed so much by style I think they ran out of room to squeeze in any real content. I heard one writer comment that Charlize Theron officially has her Catwoman. While it falls a shade short of being as painful as Catwoman, this is certainly no gem. The storyline is a convoluted mess that doesn't even try to connect up much less takes a stab at making any sense. For a cast of top rate actors, we get a lot of phoned in performances, compounded by their ridiculous costumes. Ultimately, they've adapted a comic that really shouldn't have ventured outside the ink and flickering television screen.