The aesthetics & sensibilities of animator Peter Chung are not for everybody, but at heart he's always been pushing the medium to fulfill its potential to the utmost in the diversity of stories it can tell. MTV's experimentation with animation blocks such as Liquid Television in the 90s provided a welcome outlet for his blend of sci-fi allegory and kinky humour courtesy of the sexy secret agent Aeon Flux.
In their hunt for a new futuristic franchise in a post-Matrix world Hollywood took notice of some of that, spying a similar combo of dystopian philosophising and martial arts action without picking up on the sardonic nuance essential to the formula. It's a sadly familiar tale of violated visions, cratered careers and executive dysfunction that'll have you so wound up in our telling you won't know whether to shoot us or kiss us!
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