rating:
(out of
4 stars)United States; 2002
Directed by Kurt Wimmer; produced by Jan de Bont, Lucas Foster; written by Kurt Wimmer
Starring Christian Bale, Dominic Purcell, Sean Bean, Christian Kahrmann, William Fichtner, Angus Macfadyen, Taye Diggs, Emily Watson
Below you will find a temporary review for this film. The real (better, more complete) review will be online very soon.
'Equilibrium' has a message. It is also a action movie that doesn't make
much sense in some scenes but is very entertaining to watch. In a world
where people are not allowed to feel anything we meet John Preston
(Christian Bale). He is a cleric, someone who makes sure people follow the
law. The people don't have the desire to feel because they take a certain
drug. Some people don't want to take it, they want to be free. One day
Preston doesn't take the drug and feels for the first time. From that moment
he stops taking the drugs and sees how wrong the system is. He joins the
resistance to make things right again.
The clerics fight with an art that is called gun-kata. Instead of simply
shooting someone they do impossible things first and then shoot the person.
It doesn't make sense, but it looks very nice so I don't complain.
Especially the fight in the end of the movie looks great. I enjoyed this
movie very much and with its underlying message it is not simply an action
movie.