Caught this last night in HD. Wasn't aware of earlier animated versions, but this U.S./German production was at least eye-catching for special effects--and of course Charlize Theron. 2:35:1 as released, but don't believe it was on Showtime. From the schedule (http://www.sho.com/site/schedules/product_page.do?seriesid=0&episodeid=128280), looks like the HD version doesn't repeat until Saturday.
AEON FLUX (PG13) (2005)
Charlize Theron stars in this sexy, sleek science fiction action-thriller based on the animated series of the same name. In a totalitarian future where 99% of the world's population has perished due to disease, the survivors live in a single walled city under the iron fist of a strict dictator - but a rebellion is brewing with the weapon-wielding, black leather-clad assassin Aeon leading the battle cry. Marton Csokas costars with Jonny Lee Miller, Frances McDormand, Pete Postlethwaite and Sophie Okonedo.

This is an excellent Blu-Ray or HD-DVD find if you can get it for PQ sake. The story is...well fans of the original MTV show may yearn for that, but it is at least a good looking movie.

It was shown on other premium channel (Starz? Encore?) a while back but last Monday was its Showtime debut (in 2:35:1 OAR HD :)). Guess the channel wanted something cool (at least visually) to lead into the premieres of "Weeds Season 3" and "Californication." I debated for a long time whether to buy this flick on HD-DVD or not and now that I've seen it I'm glad I didn't buy it. No amount of eye-candy (and this movie had it in boatloads) and impressive locales (a lot more convincing than the CG worlds in the similar PG-13 suckfest "Ultraviolet") can compensate for the fact this thing was predictable, rotten, not that exciting (there's only so much violent action a PG-13 can get through before it looks like a haphazardly edited music video) and pretty damn retarded. Ironically in an odd way the movie resembles the cartoon that inspired it. Those "Aeon Flux" shorts (not the half-hour serial episodes) deliberately made no sense whatsoever. In that sense the movie is both an improvement (there is a story that goes from A to B to C) and fatally flawed (by making Aeon the good person the movie deprives the character from much of the cartoon's bad-ass heroine attitude).

Oh well, 90 minutes with Charlize Theron wearing all kinds of spandex outfits in HD ain't a bad way to waste a lazy Monday night in August! :p

Yea I thought it was a decent movie.