Karyn Kusama the writer-director of GIRLFIGHT the story of a tough female boxer turns her attentions to a tough female superhero in AEON FLUX. Based on a series of animated shorts that aired on MTV the live-action feature film version stars Charlize Theron in jet black hair as the secret agent of the title. Aeon Flux is a Monican who has been ordered to assassinate Trevor Goodchild (Martin Csokas) the leader of Bregna--a futuristic walled city that is the last vestige of humanity on 25th-century earth. But a long-buried memory prevents her from killing him ultimately making both of them targets. As Trevor battles his brother Oren (Jonny Lee Miller) for control of Bregna Aeon seeks revenge for the murder of her sister (Amelia Warner) while also being hunted down by her former partner Sithandra (Sophie Okonedo). At the center of it all is a secret that threatens to tear everything apart.

Theron who performed most of her own stunts glides through the film in barely-there outfits wh...