However, as we learn, not everyone in the government is corrupt. Aeon is part of a secret resistance trying to overthrow the apparently corrupt government. A scientist, Treavor Goodchild, discovered a cure and what was left of the human race lives in this giant walled city. A deadly virus had wiped out most of the human race. The movie is about a utopian society where everything appears wonderful on the outside, but there is trouble brewing. I do not think so, but I could see where some might. However, for fans of the very un-nerving cartoon, this movie will probably seem slow and watered down. It kept the main characters from the cartoon and added a really cool twist. The Aeon Flux movie ran with the basic premise cartoon and turned into something of a thriller. At the end of each episode, she would get killed. Aeon Flux, herself, was this impossibly drawn fantasy woman with an impossibly tall, slender, curvaceous body in a black skin-tight superhero vinyl outfit (think the Selene character in the Underworld series bumped up several notches or Julie Newmar as Catwoman from the 1960’s Batman series and turned into a cartoon). Aeon Flux was a cartoon character anti-hero who fought against the establishment in a futuristic dystopia where the world was run by a corrupt régime. Beavis and Butt-Head, for example, came out of Liquid TV. In the early 1990’s MTV launched Liquid TV with included a series of animated short shows set to popular music from that time period and featured a number of independent artists. With the proper marketing and perhaps a different ending, this movie could have been a blockbuster. The entire concept, plot, script, acting – everything, is first rate. The movie has become one of my favorites. That said, for the ridiculously low cost of this Blu-ray, I would recommend it over the DVD. So, the Bu-ray could just be an early press of DVD into the blue-ray format. You have to remember this movie was made ten years ago when Blu-ray was just developing. In fact, from about eight feet on 55” plasma, there is only a subtle difference. The Blu-ray is noticeably more detailed than the DVD, but not in a huge way, just noticeably. You still have all the behind the scenes and making of the moving shorts that are included on the DVD. I was hoping for some additional material, but that’s fine. The Blu-ray disk has all of the extras that are included with the standard DVD, but nothing else. Some other movies that have similar themes would include: The Island, Logan’s Run, the Giver, and perhaps the Hunger Games and Divergent. As a sci-fi aficionado and the proud owner of literally thousands of tiles of books and videos from this genre, I really did find this movie enjoyable. This movie is awesome! I watched it a while ago and then recently purchased the Blu-ray. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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