#Aeon flux charlize theron movie#

I stumbled across a reference to this film and without knowing anything about it or the cartoon, came to IMDb for an impartial viewpoint.

#Aeon flux charlize theron movie#

OK, I am not a movie critic but I felt compelled to write something here as I used the reviews on IMDb to determine whether or not to watch this movie. Trailers for the film show some of alternate scenes which could be from Kusama's director's cut, like Æon in different clothes after she wakes up. Kusama's original cut was about 30 minutes longer and it also had different score, composed by Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil, which was rejected by the producers and replaced with Graeme Revell's score while they were re-editing different versions of the film for test screenings. In the end, they decided to go with PG-13 rating so violence and nude scenes were cut, including an entire sex scene, although you can still see several quick shots of Theron's breasts in post-sex scene. Despite Kusama's objections, alternate scenes were filmed which for example showed more bloodier fights and bullet hits, and more nudity from Charlize Theron in several of her scenes. It's possible that this 71-minute version of the film was an R-rated version which some producers wanted. Huge parts of the plot were left out and even one character's sexuality of being gay was cut out by the studio.

According to director Karyn Kusama, after finishing the movie, the studio fired her, re-cut the movie to a 71-minute long version that tested poorly and then asked her to edit the film again, but not back to her original vision.