The cover of the DVD compares this movie to The Matrix. There are some similarities but this is no Matrix. The world of Matrix was more developed because of the trilogy, but Equilibrium does a very good job of creating its own future world. The idea of this world is that humans can't have feelings and emotions any more. Once this has been established then there won't be any more war and death.... read more
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A broad science fiction thriller in a classic vein, Equilibrium takes a respectable stab at a Fahrenheit 451-like cautionary fable. The story finds Earth's post-World War III humankind in a state of severe emotional repression: If no one feels anything, no one will be inspired by dark passions to attack their neighbors. WriD
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A broad science fiction thriller in a classic vein, Equilibrium takes a respectable stab at a Fahrenheit 451-like cautionary fable. The story finds Earth's post-World War III humankind in a state of severe emotional repression: If no one feels anything, no one will be inspired by dark passions to attack their neighbors. Writer-director Kurt Wimmer's monochromatic, Metropolis-influenced cityscape provides an excellent backdrop to the heavy-handed mission of John Preston (Christian Bale), a top cop who busts "sense offenders" and crushes sentimental, sensual, and artistic relics from a bygone era. Predictably, Preston becomes intrigued by his victims and that which they die to cherish; he stops taking his mandatory, mood-flattening drug and is even aroused by a doomed prisoner (Emily Watson). Wimmer's wrongheaded martial arts/dueling guns motif is sheer silliness (a battle over a puppy doesn't help), but Equilibrium should be seen for Bale's moving performance as a man shocked back to human feeling. --Tom Keogh
“The cover of the DVD compares this movie to The Matrix. There are some similarities but this is no Matrix. The world of Matrix was more developed because of the trilogy, but Equilibrium does a very good job of creating its own future world. The idea of this world is that humans can't have feelings and emotions any more. Once this has been established then there won't be any more war and death. (I don't know how they were supposed to have relationships and children but they managed this somehow.)
To do this there is a special force that seeks out an underground movement that is trying to preserve the old way of life. Christian Bale is the lead enforcer and is very efficient in his work. He takes out the opposition without any emotion or remorse. The plot in the movie takes” read more
"This movie was not promoted not nearly well as it should have been. The Matrix killed it inadvertently simply put. Critics loved it and self proclaimed "movie critics" instantly dismissed it assumed it was trying to ride the wave with Neo.
Man were they ever wrong. Kurt Wimmer does a fantastic job in nearly every aspect of this movie. Guns being used in a mathematical, strategic, and not to mention cool way just gave Equilibrium it's own personality.
I was severely disappointed though in Ultr"
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