Æon Flux (2005)
Directed by Karyn Kusama
400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.
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Its first half is packed with so much rich visual world-building and inventively out-there detail – gravity-surfing bounty hunters, loyalist bees that “aren’t like humans, they don’t question or doubt”, fountains of youth, planetary harvesting – that it feels like the kind of lysergic science fiction that Alejandro Jodorowsky might have made of Dune, or that Karyn Kusama did make with Æon Flux (2005), although, like the latter, by its second half Jupiter Ascending abandons big, crazy ideas for a default mode of repetitive action sequences, losing along the way both its distinctive weirdness and the viewer’s attention.
At least in Dark Fury, you can derive some enjoyment from the angular irregularities animator Peter Chung brings to his Æon Flux -ification of the Riddick character.