Feast of Film

Aeon Flux is the big screen live action version of the MTV animated series created by Peter Chung. Although it is always dangerous to make anime into live action, director Karyn Kusama places just the right amount of emphasis on the homage to the genre. The set place action scenes invoke the cartoon origins of the story well. Charlize Theron plays Aeon, the sexy resistance fighter, with a good balance between the cartoon and human character. The plot: Aeon Flux is a resistance fighter, or Monican as they are known in this city of 15 million people living 400 years in the future. With the human race almost wiped out by a plague, the survivors live in the wall ed city of Bregna, under the rule of the Goodchild dynasty (descended from the scientist who found the cure that saved the remnants of humanity). The Monicans (is this word play on Mohican?) fight to overthrow the Goodchilds, which is more of an autocracy - the ruler is Chairman Trevor Goodchild, deputy is his brother Oren and th...