Both films are similar with Underworlds Gothic feel replaced with a quirky but likable futuristic aura.
I thought this was a lot like Underworld with Kate Beckinsale as the beautiful assassin but this doesn't hold a candle to Underworld in my opinion which I loved and have enjoyed many times. This could be one of those films that gets a cult following but for me, a guy who is usually tolerant of low budget productions, it was just sloppy execution for a $62m film. On a positive note the sets and outfits were great, the dialogue was a lot better than many films I have seen and the story on the whole was good but poorly executed. It just hacked me off as it seemed sloppy whereas a little extra care may have delivered the film in a nice slick package. There were at least 5 occasions where this sort of thing was blatantly obvious. An example is where Aeon would be jumping through the air to land face down but suddenly it cut to her lying on her back. It was often as if the film was skipping forward 5 seconds as something would happen, and then some bizarre thing would occur. There were so many scenes (particularly the action scenes) where it just didn't add up. I haven't seen the cartoon so cannot comment on the comparison but what really let it down for me was the terrible editing.
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There was one point where I thought that it was about to get really interesting and I was excited about the rest of the movie (about half way in) but I was sadly let down as it sort of petered out with some odd action and a bland ending.
The acting is good and can't really be faulted and the story line I was happy with but it just seemed to crawl along and ended a little feebly. It's a shame because I like this sort of movie and after reading the reviews thought I would enjoy it. I stumbled across a reference to this film and without knowing anything about it or the cartoon, came to IMDb for an impartial viewpoint. 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.
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