"Aeon Flux" (2005)

Female lead.  Lots of acrobatics.  I think the movie does a fine job submitting its own answer to "How would a female action lead look?" meaning, how would she fight different, to prove she is all woman, but still show "She can do it, too" just like a man?  (Here come the criticisms launched at the accusation that she should even have to be compared to a man--either as what she is as like him, or as what she is not in relation to him.  A sign as the negative of the picture to show that she is or isn't the positive--or both is AND isn't.)

So, how about instead the beauty of a body in fluid motion--a dance for something other than a dance competition.  And any screen fight instructor will tell you that fights are choreographed, a word used for dancing.

Interesting use of color throughout the movie.

I think for me, it's just the pleasure of seeing a capable woman who didn't need to be rescued/saved by a man during the fight.  And yet, as a Christian, we're ALL saved by a man.  It's what mankind--men and women--all realize inside them somewhere, that we're in need of a savior.  And even Aeon Flux--you find out at the end--is saved by a man, an old man.  Although, he saved her because he saw something worth saving.  And Christ's bride--the church--has nothing as part of her own self worthy of being saved; and yet Christ loved his bride enough to die for her.  Our need for a savior is buried deep inside us.  It can't BUT come out in what we create.

And Aeon Flux is just a nice action movie to watch on a Saturday night--enough shoot 'em up action with fluid motion acrobatics to keep you watching, with enough Sci-Fi to make things interesting--without so much gore you get sick of it or too much science mumbo-jumbo to scramble your brain.