Trapped in his mother's Lower East Side apartment, sixteen-year-old Finn wants nothing more than to escape New York and spend the summer in South America studying the Iskanani Indians, or "Fierce People," with the anthropologist father he's never met. But Finn's dreams are shattered when he is arrested in a desperate effort to help his drug-dependent mother, Liz, who scrapes by working as a masse... use. Determined to get their lives back on track, Liz moves the two of them into a guest house on the vast country estate of her ex-client, the aging aristocratic billionaire, Ogden C. Osbourne. In Osbourne's close world of privilege and power, Finn and Liz encounter a tribe fiercer and more mysterious than anything they might find in the South American jungle: the super rich. While Liz battles her substance abuse and struggles to win back her son's love and trust, Finn falls in love with Osbourne's beautiful granddaughter, Maya, befriends her charismatic older brother, Bryce, and even wins the favor of Osbourne himself. But when a shocking act of violence shatters Finn's ascension within the Osbourne clan, the golden promises of this lush world quickly sour. And both Finn and Liz, caught in a harrowing struggle for their dignity, discover that membership always comes at a price...
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Fierce People Charlize Theron is a sexy, lethal rebel battling for freedom in an oppressive future society. Sci-fi action thrills adapted from the cult MTV animation series
What is it about the Best (Supporting) Actress Oscar that makes the women who win it immediately want to don a revealing costume and beat people up in a daft, female-oriented action movie? Charlize Theron follows in the footsteps of Angelina Jolie (Tomb Raider) and Halle Berry (Catwoman) with Aeon Flux. While the ballet-trained actress exhibits her physical talents in the stunt sequences, this is a stodgy and listless futuristic thriller that only ever echoes other cinematic sci-fi tomorrows....
Fierce indeed
It is clear from early on the direction this film is going to take. However it turns a little darker as it goes on which adds an unexpectedly good edge to what was 'kinda ok'.
The acting and characters are all excellent and the great Donald Sutherland is, as always, amazing.
