janelane wrote:
Unfortunately, she's beating back the "pretty female opposite the male lead" roles that she was stuck with early on to show how versatile an actress she is. Its totally unnecessary but, then again, most personality complexes are. I agree that this role seems below her...maybe someone a little more typecast with fewer morals is in order (Jennifer Gardner, Carrie-Anne Moss, etc.)

-janelane, sexy actress

I don't know that I agree. She may be the lead, but I'm not sure it's exactly the empowering role you indicate. If it maintains a strong connetion to the shows, with all their screwed up love/hate relationships and ambiguous morality, it wouldn't necessarily be. In it's present incarnation, that might have changed, but the male lead in Aeon Flux was never exactly a foil for the title character. I don't see this really escaping the "action movie" genre, which is ironic of course, since Peter Chung was, at least in part, satirizing the whole concept of the action film. I guess what I'm saying is, necessary or not, this doesn't feel like the best example of a film that blasts away those former sterotypes. Monster was all the proof I think anyone needed and, I hear, North Country has been reasonably successful building on that foundation.

As for lower "morals", I don't see that being the requisite factor I was discussing. There's nothing immoral about the role of Aeon Flux. I don't necessarily see the movie as conceptually below her, just wrong for her. That being said, since it does appear that they've reduced (or expanded) the concept into a generic action movie then "below" may end up being correct after all. But based on the original shows, I don't see that anything would have been below anyone intrinsically, bikini or otherwise. I just think she's wrong for the part.

p.s. It's interesting that you mentioned Jennifer Garner, as many detractors of the film are calling it, if you'll allow me to paraphrase, an Alias-ization of the cartoon. The trailer hasn't led me to disagree. The ever angular and not-quite-hot Lara Flynn Boyle has been circulated as a more potentially ideal fit, and I think I saw someone mention Jamie Lee Curtis circa the 80's, not that any of it matters, of course.

RE: Charlize Theron: Charlize Theron Aeon Flux - Linsay Lohan