Equilibrium DVD

Advantages: Independent, entertaining, good to look at
Disadvantages: Not the most original concept.

...radar so when I watched Equilibrium (2002) the other evening I had no idea what to expect. I had never heard of the director, Kurt Wimmer but the main cast was fairly recognisable with the likes of Christian Bale, Sean Bean and Emily Watson. The film set in a post World War III world where in order to prevent another war the cause of war is punishable by death - that is to have and display emotion. The focus of the film is John Preston (Christian ...
...law enforcers, deadly killing machine and summary executioner) with the very best intuitive mind -in other words he knows what you are thinking and knows if you are feeling - who begins to question the very law, government (a kind of post modern fascist dictatorship which uses elements of Kung Fu meditation and fighting in its rule and enforcement, which brainwashes and sedates the population and removes by wanton destruction anything which may stimulate ... Read review

Advantages: Dystopian epic with some great acting
Disadvantages: Cliched unnecessary love story, too Orwellian

*Personal comments* When it is an Orwellian tale, uplifting and self affirming? When it's not an Orwellian book at all, but a Kurt Wimmer film that wants to be. And that is my main problem with this film, because despite being a thoroughly good action film, and with some surprisingly wry comments on our society today, it still has too much of a vision stolen from other sources, for it to be accepted as a gem in its own right. *Scene setting* A ...
...of the future, dim and bleak and grey, where you are nothing more than a grey blur moving along in shapeless accord with the passing scenery. A small beep sounds and you raise a rather nifty injector and inject some golden liquid into your neck. "Now why would I do that?" you cry in disbelief. "I know drugs are wrong." Ah but drugs aren't wrong here. *This* drug suppresses the emotions which spark humanity to war. The hatred, the anger, the violence, ... Read review

Advantages: All action feast
Disadvantages: Far fetched ending.

...the dictatorship that is ruling Equilibrium with an iron fist? Will he join the resistance and fight for whats right? Will he hide his emotion and continue to enforce the laws and commands that he now knows to be wrong? I'm not telling you, you will have to watch the film. Equilibrium is one of those films that makes you think. Would a world devoid of emotion be worth living in? Is there any point in living if you are unable to feel, to love, to ...
...heavy? Wouldn't you rather live with the threat of war than give away all the things that make you the person you are,the things that make life so wonderful? We are very quickly introduced to the cold, hard, killing machine that is John Preston. A man with no scruples, I mean come on, he kills his own partner, for reading a book. He is the sort of character that we all take an instant dislike to. Christian Bale is excellent in his portrayal of this ... Read review

Advantages: Interesting topic, great acting, thought-provoking
Disadvantages: Nothing I cant think of

Somehow I have managed to miss this film every time it has been shown on TV, but I finally remembered to put it in my Sky Planner so it came on automatically when it was shown on Film Four earlier this week. It has been a film that I have wanted to watch for quite a while, so I made sure that I watched it, no matter what else I had to miss in the process! The film is completely intriguing to me. The ideas within it are completely fascinating, and ...
...experience in our lifetime. The film is set in the 21st century, although we are not given a specific year, and it takes place sometime after a World War III and Earth has we know it has changed unrecognisably so. We are told of a country that doesn't really exist, which is called Libria. This is the place that the film focuses on and where the film takes place. In a nutshell, the story of the movie is that feelings in humans have been eradicated, ... Read review

Advantages: Intense gun sequences, Thought Provoking, Unrelenting
Disadvantages: A few scenes overdone, Slightly unbelievable world created

...set in an unlikely society, Equilibrium challenges the boundaries of human existence and the reasoning of being afforded a vital emotion. Picture the scene….. …….the group of men talk to each other hastily in the derelict room, the fear in their voices painfully obvious as they hear the Clerics advancing stealthily in the background. Suddenly the lights go out and the door is kicked down, leaving a shimmering jagged bolt of light piercing the eerie ...
...not seen since the Matrix, Equilibrium dares not only to push the bar higher in high-octane fighting, but also without a huge amount of computer generated graphics which is admirable. Christian Bale (previously in American Psycho) stars in this underrated and largely un-promoted gem of an action film, set in the future in an almost parallel universe and one, which has done away with the emotion of “feeling”. This in turn creates a dystopian society ... Read review

Advantages: Bale *drools*, Gun-kata
Disadvantages: No huge explosions or time travelling

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Advantages: Enjoyable action film
Disadvantages: Very unoriginal

...to take, sadly it didn't really work but it was impressively like anime from the settings to the costumes to the way some of the characters looked and acted. I've given the film three stars because although I have a few complaints with it I found it watchable enough and overall mediocre. I wouldn't watch it again and I definitely wouldn't buy it on DVD. I would, however, recommend it to anyone who enjoyed Resident Evil , Aeon Flux and Underworld . Fans of Equilibrium may find this to be just a slightly dumbed down version. Equilibrium had a great dystopian plot and rather good acting and you could sort of wringe a moral from it, Ultraviolet had al the same action etc but was just a little dryer. Certificate 15 for violence and bad langauge Trailer http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/ultravio let/index.html... Read review

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