I thought this was definitely a strange movie. I noticed that it came out in 1991 and then 2005. I just watched last night for the first time. My initial reaction question after watching it was, "Whats wrong with sex?"

The film takes place 408 years into a post-apocalyptic future, after a virus has wiped out ninety-nine percent of the Earth's population in 2011. The survivors inhabit Bregna, a walled city-state, which is ruled by a congress of scientists. Æon Flux is an assassin-member of the 'Monicans', an underground rebel organization who communicate telepathically through use of pills, led by The Handler. After a mission in destroying a surveillance station, Æon comes home to find her sister Una killed, supposedly mistaken for a Monican. When Æon is sent on a mission to kill the government's leader, Trevor Goodchild (Marton Csokas), she discovers that she is unwittingly playing a part in a secret coup. This discovery brings into question the origin and destiny of everyone in Bregna; and in particular, Æon's personal connection to the man she has been sent to assassinate. Ultimately she learns that she is a clone of Goodchild's late wife Cathryn, and that he is in fact trying to save humanity by creating a cure for the disease; which has since died out but in the process has rendered the population sterile. In fact, every newborn child in Bregna is actually a clone created with recycled DNA, with the dead constantly being reborn into new individuals and still bearing parts of the memories of their antecessors. One of Trevor's experiments is successful but Oren Goodchild (Jonny Lee Miller), Trevor's brother, destroys the research in an attempt to stay in power and live forever. However, in a confrontation with Trevor and Æon, Oren reveals that humanity itself has adapted and some people have regained the ability to have babies on their own. Æon is ultimately forced to go up against both her former allies and Oren but she manages to convince the Monicans not to listen to The Handler and take her side to kill Oren and his men. In a final act, Æon prepares to destroy the housing facility where the DNA used for cloning is stored, a dirigible constantly floating in the sky. She meets the old man who monitors the DNA, who was the doctor who preserved her DNA when Oren ordered it destroyed. The subsequent crash breaks the wall surrounding the city and for the first time in centuries the population is able to expand into the outside world.

The movie was terrible, stupid and had nothing to do with the original cartoon series. The original series was more about fear of government and the futility of violence (Aeon died in every episode).

Much rather watch the animation

I never got to watch the animation. I will have to check it out.

Yep I have to say the series is way better, it was twisted & I loved it. There really was no way they could translate it onto the big screen & do it any sort of justice. The style of the series was very unique and you just can't do that with a live action movie. At least not for that one...

I remember watching the series on MTV as a child. WOAH!

Me too :)

I remember going to my neighbors house to watch TV cuase we were too poor to affourd cable TV lol. Was cool gorwing up around them. got twisted my first time there.

Agreed....what worked for it was the little short stories....