Equilibrium (2003) is this week’s pick for Toast’’s Blogg Movie Reviews. This movie stars Christian Bale, Taye Diggs and Emily Watson and is directed by Kurt Wimmer.
The main reason for seeing this movie is that Christian Bale is to be the new Bruce Wayne in the upcoming Batman Begins. It was hard to say whether he would be good for the role due to his emotionless role in this movie. Equilibrium is about a post-World War Three world where humanity has been striped of its emotions in an attempt to control the violent behaviour of mankind. Bale plays John Preston, the top enforcer in a fight to silence those who are sense offenders, that is, those who do not take their emotion-blocking drug and therefore feel. Preston forgets to take a dose of the drug and realizes there is a whole other life that he never knew existed.
While the concept of a world under mindless control and one person breaking free is not entirely new (Matrix, THX 1138), writer/director Kurt Wimmer tries to make a complex story that would have people talking for years to come. The result is a slow moving story with little character development for Bale and no character development for the other supporting cast. The dialogue is sparse and is set between long breaks of Bale standing thinking about his new emotions. The story takes you for a few predictable twists near the end but over all is quite dull.
If you want to see this movie at all it should be for the “spectacular gun battles and fight scenes” as Richard Roper puts it. The Matrix-style gun play has been overused since its debut but it is still fun to watch. The choreography in the first scene and the final battle are fast-paced, exciting and this movie’s only saving grace. Can you guess the emotions I am feeling toward this movie?
Later days
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What a bunch of inane critiscism of an awsome movie… Complaining about the lack of character developement is retarded in a movie about people who lost thier ability to HAVE EMOTIONS
There is nothing ‘matrix style’ unless by ‘matrix style’ you mean those metal things that shoot pieces of metal… the fights are shot completely differently. There is none of the reality distortion with the vortecies behind bullets, nor is there much dodging of bullets already in the air
By “Matrix style” I ment “look at me, I’ll take on whatever you throw at me and I like leather”
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