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A masterpiece that's best enjoyed after a few drinks

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 July 2018

I love Equilibrium. It's one of my favourite films of all time, just because it's so hilariously bad. The acting is lousy, the script feels like it was thrown together in 10 minutes and the gun martial arts that enables the main character to dodge opposing bullets whilst barely moving is beyond stupid, but all of this makes the film a delight to watch. Don't listen to the 1 star reviews, those people have no sense of humour, this film is amazing, you just have to be slightly drunk to fully appreciate its genius.

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Quinn Agathoni

Could Do Better

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 August 2018

Here is the problem. We are presented with a dystopia in which feeling is forbidden because feeling brings hate and rage which in turn bring war. And yet it is clear that the senior officers of that world all feel themselves. They are arrogant and worse, they hate those who feel. Perhaps with better writing and better acting, the world of Equilibrium could be better portrayed, but honestly, perhaps not. I think this might work better as a book than a film.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 November 2021

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If I need a sense of humor to watch, what in itself is trying to be a serious film, then to find it good I'd have to be insane or just foolish-minded. Luckily I don't have any feelings myself so just switched it off after 25 mins.

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Val W.

American Shyte

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 November 2021

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Wasted time on a sadistic movie where an 2 hour movie of a shooting session at a shooting range would be more meaningful..

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Mrs Elaine Rogers

Silly movie

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 July 2021

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Xxxxxxxxx not worth watching under any circumstances

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John Preston

It is worse than DVD

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 November 2020

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Worthless item. Audio and video is totally crap. Do not buy this product. Love the movie though.

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Balls up

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 January 2019

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Wrong dvd received, equilibrium on the dvd cover, wrapper still on but the disc was the 6th day featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger

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CosmicAlchemist

Why??

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 December 2021

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The fist 5 minutes were abysmal, I bet Sean Bean wishes he was killed off earlier in this.

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Cheap 'n' Nasty!!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 December 2015

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Blu ray????? More like VHS. I returned this blu ray the same day I received it.

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hamptoncherry

Couldn't even watch it.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 July 2018

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Piles of bodies from the start, poor acting to add. Not for me.

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Richard

Step away from the puppy.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 June 2016

Oh snap. Suckered again into purchasing a total dog of a film by production credits studded with stars.

This is an awesomely dumb action scifi vehicle aimed at milking the teen game-player audience. It's yet another highly derivative, dystopian post- apocalyptic vision doing the ol' rebels v. evil authoritarian empire schtick . Quite a big budget job but basically a pumped-B Movie: tired and formulaic. Basically think comic book stereotypes trapped in a 1984-meets-Matrix nexus written and directed by some pretentious industry mouth-breather with a severe dosh habit to feed. You know who wins. It ain't the audience. At least not the grown-ups. To be fair, probably quite number of 11 year olds might enjoy it for the action.

The best I can say about it is that it certainly makes you appreciate how wonderful the great scifi action flicks are.

Critiquing the story holes and internal plot implausibilities would be laughable given the level. The dorky big concept is that fascistic authorities (they dress in black and their embem is a variant on a swastika) are stamping-out emotion in the name of neutralising war-like tendencies in human beings. It all ends on a twist followed by another twist. In the short 'making-of' doc someone actually describes the concept as kinda Buddhist.

So: a duck-dumb 'dramatic' vehicle for action sequences that leaves the A-list acting talent with nothing to do (particularly David Hemmings) but keep a straight face and laugh all the way to the tax-haven.

The director (no John Carpenter) has chosen B soundtrack music (always there, helping you along like a sonic seeing-eye mutt) which is meat-shaped speed-metal alternating with synthy sub-Wagnerian twaddle.

During the speed-metal bits Christian Bale whips it out (again and again) on a host of baddies using some Hollywood-concocted blend of samurai martial arts and hi-tech firepower. Way less spectacular than in the Matrix, but that sort of thing. Highly stylised hyper-unreal combat in which it's all about tightly story-boarded moves circa 2002 (you know, rapid switching between slow and speeded-up), dancing and SFX. Maybe connoiseurs of this stuff will spot amusing innovations in the choreography but it seemed merely slick and predictable to me. Nothing as exciting as Bales's street-fighting Batman and really rather old-hat when viewed in 2016. Unless you're a collector, possibly. Maybe this is classy teen-cult stuff.

On a positive note, there's a scene where Christian Bale's character is turned from the dark side by a cute puppy. Towards the end there's also a bit of CGI in which a face gets sliced off. Not in a gory way though. A sort of slow slide. About the only things I hadn't seen before and didn't expect. Gosh those pixels are sharp aren't they?

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Keith Herriott

Equilibrium (DVD)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 July 2014

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I guess all art, music etc is by its very nature subjective. I caught a trailer of 'Ultraviolet' on another DVD and took a look at the reviews on here and it mostly got slammed. However, one or two reviewers made comparisons with Equilibrium and Aeon Flux, so, I bought all 3. All I can say is, Good grief! I managed to watch about ten minutes then I had to eject the disc. The acting was wooden, even given the premise of the film that no-one should show any emotion, the premise was stupid, it was an embarrassment to watch, but as I said with my opening sentence, all art is subjective, but it was as inspiring to me as Tracey Emin's bed. Definitely a case of "The emperor's new clothes'. Tell enough people that they should like something and they'll believe it.

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