SuhailiEquilibrium
March 14th 2008 12:00
Starring: Christian Bale, Emily Watson and Taye Diggs
In the style of V for Vendetta, The Matrix and Minority Report comes another window in to our future, and it's a grim view indeed.
In the early days of the 21st Century, mankind initiated World War III and the survivors concluded that we as a species couldn't survive a fourth. They resolved to maintain peace at any cost; emotions were outlawed as well as any of the things that triggered them - music, art and literature.
To this end, a special breed of police were created, a zero-tolerance unit assigned to find and eliminate all transgressors of the new laws; the Cleric. When Preston, the Cleric's top enforcer (Bale) misses an Interval - a dose of an emotion-blocking drug- he begins to wonder if being human is really such a terrible crime.
Although Equilibrium was released in 2002, it has aged remarkably well in a genre where most films are temporary in nature; watched only until a newer flick with bigger bangs and more bullets comes to the big screen. Bale brings his usual intensity to the quiet loner that we've seen him own in Batman Begins and The Prestige while Diggs brings grim determination to Brandt, Preston's partner.
Equilibrium is well worth buying and it's relatively old so you'd have to be incredibly unlucky to find it in stores for any more than fifteen dollars at the most. My only regret is that I missed this one on the big screen.
Four and a half out of five stars
In the style of V for Vendetta, The Matrix and Minority Report comes another window in to our future, and it's a grim view indeed.
In the early days of the 21st Century, mankind initiated World War III and the survivors concluded that we as a species couldn't survive a fourth. They resolved to maintain peace at any cost; emotions were outlawed as well as any of the things that triggered them - music, art and literature.
To this end, a special breed of police were created, a zero-tolerance unit assigned to find and eliminate all transgressors of the new laws; the Cleric. When Preston, the Cleric's top enforcer (Bale) misses an Interval - a dose of an emotion-blocking drug- he begins to wonder if being human is really such a terrible crime.
Although Equilibrium was released in 2002, it has aged remarkably well in a genre where most films are temporary in nature; watched only until a newer flick with bigger bangs and more bullets comes to the big screen. Bale brings his usual intensity to the quiet loner that we've seen him own in Batman Begins and The Prestige while Diggs brings grim determination to Brandt, Preston's partner.
Equilibrium is well worth buying and it's relatively old so you'd have to be incredibly unlucky to find it in stores for any more than fifteen dollars at the most. My only regret is that I missed this one on the big screen.
Four and a half out of five stars
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Comment by JohnDoe
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As a reworking of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Equilibrium works.
I really enjoyed this film too....if your interested you can read my Equilibrium review HERE
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