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Equilibrium

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7.0/10 • 4.5K

2002-12-061h 47m

ActionScience FictionThriller

In a future where freedom is outlawed, outlaws will become heroes.

In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.

Directors
Kurt Wimmer
Editors
Tom Rolf

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  1. Christian Bale

    Christian Bale

    John Preston

  2. Taye Diggs

    Taye Diggs

    Brandt

  3. Angus Macfadyen

    Angus Macfadyen

    Dupont

  4. Matthew Harbour

    Matthew Harbour

    Robbie Preston

  5. Sean Bean

    Sean Bean

    Errol Partridge

  6. Emily Watson

    Emily Watson

    Mary O'Brien

  7. Sean Pertwee

    Sean Pertwee

    Father

  8. Emily Siewert

    Emily Siewert

    Lisa Preston

  9. Maria Pia Calzone

    Maria Pia Calzone

    Preston's Wife

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DanDare

Apr 19, 2018

5/10

Set in an Orwellian Dystopian future after a nasty world war 3 in the early part of the 21st century. The population are forced to take drugs that suppress their emotions. You see emotions causes conflict and war. However some people exhibit emotions by not taking the medicine. They want to listen to music, experience their senses by seeing artwork, read books or having pets. These people are exterminated by clerics, an elite hit squad. Christian Bale is the best of the clerics but once he stops taking his medicine, he feels for the first time and gets into contact with a resistance group to overthrow the leader. Filmed in Berlin, Equilibrium comes across like an updated version of Fahrenheit 451 but feels too much like a knockoff of The Matrix with a rather a sterile narrative at the beginning which made it rather uninvolving. Bale's behaviour is so odd once he stops taking the drugs, he should just had been caught and shot.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$20,000,000.00
Revenue
$5,400,000.00
Keywords
martial artsresistancedystopiafascismanti herototalitarian regimedestroyphasingbook burningoutlawurban settinggovernment agent