Æon Flux

Directed by: Karyn Kusama
Screenplay by: Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi
Based on: Æon Flux by; Peter Chung
Produced By: Gale Anne Hurd, David Gale, Gary Lucchesi, Greg Goodman
Starring: Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Pete Postlethwaite, Frances McDormand
Music by: Graeme Revell
Production Companies: MTV Films, Lakeshore Entertainment, Valhalla Motion Pictures
Release date: December 2, 2005
Content: General

Plot: Although Bregna is largely an idyllic place in the destroyed Earth, people routinely disappear and the population is plagued by nightmares.

A skilled warrior, named Æon Flux, is a member of the Monicans, an underground rebel organisation who communicate through telepathy-enabling technology and are led by the Handler. After a mission to destroy a surveillance station, Æon comes home to find her sister Una has been mistaken for a Monican and killed. When Æon is sent on a mission to kill the government's leader, Trevor Goodchild, she discovers that both she and the Monicans are being manipulated by a cabal of council members working towards a coup d'état, unrelated to the goals of the Monicans.

Æon questions the origins of everyone in Bregna and in particular, her personal connection to Trevor. Everyone in Bregna is revealed to be a clone, grown from recycled DNA. With the dead constantly being reborn as new individuals and bearing partial memories of their previous lives, their troubling dreams have increased. Cloning was required because the antidote to the virus made humans infertile. Trevor's ongoing experiments were attempts to reverse the infertility. His preceding clones had all worked on this problem. Æon learns that she is a clone of the original Trevor's wife Katherine and that she is the first "Katherine" clone in over 400 years.

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Review: As far As sci-fi films go, this is a great popcorn film. Plenty of good one liner jokes easily spun within a gritty dystopian futuristic world. A seemingly perfect place with plenty of skeletons on the historical closet. The premise is easy enough to recognise and accept. Along with the age old struggle of good and evil.

HOME SCRIPTURE BOOK REVIEWS POETRY RECIPES GARDENS FILM REVIEWS	Æon Flux Directed by: Karyn Kusama Screenplay by: Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi Based on: Æon Flux by; Peter Chung Produced By: Gale Anne Hurd, David Gale, Gary Lucchesi, Greg Goodman Starring: Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Pete Postlethwaite, Frances McDormand Music by: Graeme Revell Production Companies: MTV Films, Lakeshore Entertainment, Valhalla Motion Pictures Release date: December 2, 2005 Content: General Plot: Although Bregna is largely an idyllic place in the destroyed Earth, people routinely disappear and the population is plagued by nightmares. A skilled warrior, named Æon Flux, is a member of the Monicans, an underground rebel organisation who communicate through telepathy-enabling technology and are led by the Handler. After a mission to destroy a surveillance station, Æon comes home to find her sister Una has been mistaken for a Monican and killed. When Æon is sent on a mission to kill the government's leader, Trevor Goodchild, she discovers that both she and the Monicans are being manipulated by a cabal of council members working towards a coup d'état, unrelated to the goals of the Monicans. Æon questions the origins of everyone in Bregna and in particular, her personal connection to Trevor. Everyone in Bregna is revealed to be a clone, grown from recycled DNA. With the dead constantly being reborn as new individuals and bearing partial memories of their previous lives, their troubling dreams have increased. Cloning was required because the antidote to the virus made humans infertile. Trevor's ongoing experiments were attempts to reverse the infertility. His preceding clones had all worked on this problem. Æon learns that she is a clone of the original Trevor's wife Katherine and that she is the first "Katherine" clone in over 400 years. *End of Spoilers* Review: As far As sci-fi films go, this is a great popcorn film. Plenty of good one liner jokes easily spun within a gritty dystopian futuristic world. A seemingly perfect place with plenty of skeletons on the historical closet. The premise is easy enough to recognise and accept. Along with the age old struggle of good and evil. MJ Flack