"I've kept this for years, because someday it will be up to you. I don't want you to be afraid. I want you to understand. Knowledge is the only weapon we've got left. In the beginning, it was ignorance that destroyed us. I saw the first, but soon the world saw millions. No one knew how they spawned so fast, they swarmed like locusts, burning everything in their path, driven by one purpose: to feed. Even then, we couldn't believe they were real. Ancient man had made them into myths, but nature had made something far more terrible. Too late, our scientists discovered their true identity: a species which had burned the dinosaurs to dust, whose ash had brought on ice ages, who in eons past had scorched the world clean of life, then starved and slept, waiting for the Earth to replenish itself, waiting to start their cycle anew. Our weapons shot fire back at them, yet for every one of them killed, a hundred took its place. They seemed invulnerable. We could only look on as our leaders used their greatest arsenal to destroy them. But in the end, we only helped them, till the world burned, and the few of us that were left fled the cities, found shelter where we could. You have to understand our past, because you will decide our future. They're starving now, and they're more dangerous than ever. But we have to go on. We have to outlast them. Only one species is getting out of this alive."

"[looking at the approaching vehicles] That's a big tank."

"Are you asking me to weigh the life of one person against the future of the humanity?...Kill him"

"Michelle Yeoh as Corazon"

"Benedict Wong as Trey"

"Mark Strong as Pinbacker"

"Hiroyuki Sanada as Kaneda"

"Cillian Murphy as Capa"

"Troy Garity as Harvey"

"Chris Evans as Mace"

"Cliff Curtis as Searle"

"Chipo Chung as Icarus' voice"

"By the time you get this message, I'll be in the dead zone. It came a little sooner than we thought, but this means you won't be able to send a message back. So, I just wanted to let you know that I don't need the message, because I know everything you wanna say. Just remember, it takes eight minutes for light to travel from sun to Earth, which means you'll know we succeeded about eight minutes after we deliver the payload. All you have to is look out for a little extra brightness in the sky. So if you wake up one morning and it's a particularly beautiful day, you'll know we made it. Okay, I'm signing out, and I'll see you in a couple of years."

"Rose Byrne as Cassie"

"[From trailer] Nothing will survive … not your parents … not your children … not even … stars!"

"Our sun is dying. Mankind faces extinction. Seven years ago, the Icarus project sent a mission to restart the sun, but that mission was lost before it reached the star. Sixteen months ago, I, Robert Capa, and a crew of seven, left Earth frozen in a solar winter. Our payload: a stellar bomb with a mass equivalent to Manhattan Island. Our purpose: to create a star within a star. Eight astronauts strapped to the back of a bomb. My bomb. Welcome to the Icarus Two."

"At the end of time, a moment will come when just one man remains. Then the moment will pass. Man will be gone. There will be nothing to show that we were ever here … but stardust. The last man, alone with God. Am I that man?"

"For seven years I spoke with God. He told me to take us all to Heaven."

"Are you an angel? Has the time come? I've been waiting so long."

"Kaneda! What do you see? Kaneda! What do you see? Kaneda! Kaneda!"

"Prescription: two hours in the Earth Room. And get a haircut, Mace."

"Hey Capa, we're only stardust."

"We have an excess of manliness breaking out in the Comm center."

"Let me guess… the surface of the sun? Only dream I ever have. Every time I shut my eyes... it's always the same."

"This is a war, and people on all sides die."

"Ralph Herforth — Gardenar"

"Yangzom Brauen — Inari"

"Paterson Joseph — Giroux"

"Nikolai Kinski — Claudius"

"Caroline Chikezie — Freya"

"Amelia Warner — Una Flux"

"Frances McDormand — Handler"

"Pete Postlethwaite — Keeper"

"Sophie Okonedo — Sithandra"

"Jonny Lee Miller — Oren Goodchild"

"Marton Csokas — Trevor Goodchild"

"Charlize Theron — Æon Flux"

"This movie makes sense of "Aeon Flux's" senselessness in a way that makes it more fun, not less. Befitting a movie that is based on being that sort of "Bladerunner"-"Matrix" sort of smart, near-future sheen, "Aeon Flux" is full of provocative ideas and wild technology."

"There's no way to say it but to come right out with it: "Aeon Flux" is a good movie. Actually, it's a really good movie."

"Based on the animated MTV series, Aeon Flux has several entertaining action sequences, like one in which Theron, crawling like a spider, dodges metal blades that pop out of the grass."

"The ideas underlying Aeon Fluxs plot are the film's strength, and the filmmakers deserve some credit for doing more than paying lip service to them. Director Karyn Kusama (Girlfight) has a sense of visual flair. Many aspects of Aeon Fluxs look could have been derivative, but are not."

"As is the case with any totalitarian government, there are rebels. Viewing their predicament as "having traded freedom for a gilded cage," their goals are to disrupt the accepted order and kill the ruler, Trevor Goodchild (Marton Csokas), and/or his second-in-command brother, Oren (Jonny Lee Miller). The most dangerous of the rebels (who call themselves "Monicans") is Aeon Flux (Charlize Theron)."

"Perfect Future"

"The future is flux."

"The Perfect World Meets The Perfect Assassin"

"Aeon. I'm sorry for the pain. It's not safe to talk in the open. Nothing's as it seems…You had your chance, why did you hesitate?…You know where to find me."

"Welcome back."

"You are needed."

"Some called Bregna the perfect society. Some call it the height of human civilization. But others know better. The Goodchilds built Bregna to ensure us a future. They built the Relico, a memorial to remind us of what we've survived. They built walls to protect us. They tell us that outside, nature has retaken the world. But the real problems lie within. We are haunted by sorrows we cannot name. People disappear and our government denies these crimes. The Goodchild regime provides for us, as long as we stay quiet. So we trade freedom for a gilded cage. But there are rebels whoe refuse to make that trade, who fight to overthrow a government that silences us, who fight in the name of the disappeared. They call themselves the Monicans. I am one of them."

"To live once…But with hope."