Aeon Flux

This is one of my other favorite genres of movies, and no that doesn't mean science fiction, which I suppose technically this movie would classify as. I am talking about movies that create totally different worlds that the ones we live in (I Robot, Chronicles of Narinia, Lord of the Rings, but also Vanilla Sky, The Village, and The Island). All these movies are examples of extremely creative and well written story lines. Film makers had an extreme challenge when moving Aeon Flux from the tube (it was originally an MTV animation) to the big screen. I can't say that I ever watched more that two seconds of the animation show as I passed by it channel surfing, so I can't compare the cinematic version to the animated one; but I would have to say that (from what I know about the animation version) the film makers did a great job. They created a complete unique world to that of the one we live in now (there are many parallels), yet they do great job of explaining what needs to be explained, and letting the viewer discover the rest on their own. What bothers me the most about the movie is that there is no way to continue the story. I would have loved to see more of Charlize as Aeon (great to see her play a sexy character for a change), yet the film ends at a perfect stopping point. It leaves plenty to be iterpreted and completed in the minds of the viewer, but there is nothing left to explore in another film. I would have been interesting to see if they could have split the story line into smaller parts and delve deeper to create a two or three part series, but I can also see why they didn't do that. In any case, a great movie to urge the viewer to think about the world we live in today and how possible the world from Aeon Flux really is.