A breathtaking look at yet another world that could very well be our future givent the right (or wrong) wrong set of circumstances. Æon Flux, originally an MTV Liquid Television Experimental Animation (almost a Manga) by Korean American animator Peter Chung, is a citizen of the last city on earth after a biological mishap wiped out the other 99% of the worlds population before they could find a cure. After 400 years, civilisation has reached the breaking point. The utopian society that has been created is plagued by a growing sense that something is wrong, and subversives are quick to blame the ruling class.

The anime version definitely lost some of its ugliness and angular “tech” feeling when converted to film, along with the love hate tension between the two main characters. However ignoring the differences in style that could not feasibly be transferred, there was still an impressive attempt to keep some of the more obscure traits of the original, for instance, the water technology.

An enjoyable film on its own, it captured a nice balance of action and special effects , and still managed to slip in a little character development, and give you some sense of apathy with both sides of the line, and realise that the needs of all of the characters sometimes have to conflict for things to work out.

Rating: 3.5

Very much a politically motivated story in this comic adaptation from DC, brilliantly converted to the big screen, by bringing to life some very current and relevant fears of today’s masses.

The future of our world, through war and terrorism, lead to a big-brother style totalatarian regime bringing the only escape from the hight of global disarray.

Unfortunately as the addage goes, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and the citizens of this new utopian bubble they have allowed to be created for them, have lost more than they are prepared to admit. To choose the lesser of two very different evils is a choice that is not easily made by a society as a whole. A dictatorship for a government, or the possibility of global war and terrorism coming back into life, as it did to bring about the situation in the first place.

Ultimately this turned out to be a very relevent remake of an age old story, playing on the audiences fears that the same thing may be looming for us if we don’t watch our step.

Rating: 4