Wonderfully offbeat film!

Very best movie i ever watch

Nice effects though.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

In an oppressive future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system and state. Equilibrium is a well choreographed action film but it's also a smart drama that takes time to flash out it's main star but also showcase the start of him having feelings and becoming an 'One Man Army' this film might have terrific action and fight sequences but it's also very well directed and with a great story that even tho it's kind of like The Matrix it's still not some type of B-Movie dumb fun it's actually quite smart and quite the suprise plus Christian Bale giving an absolute amazing perfomance in the main role to bad that his Batman couldn't be as badass as he was in here. (A+)

I just watched "Equilibrium" (which I borrowed from the library yesterday) and it's AMAZING! Extremely well done. A powerful warning of our future. It's simply brilliant. Also less violent than I was expecting. The actors do a wonderful job, the plot and script move excellently. It was executed marvelously.

Movie Review: "Equilibrium" (2002)Indulging Japenese manga comics, writer/director Kurt Wimmer, known for written adaptation scripts for "Sphere" (1998) starring Dustin Hoffmann, Sharon Stone and Samuel L. Jackson directed by Barry Levinson as well the neo-classical-received remake "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1999) starring Pierce Borsnan & Rene Russo directed by John McTiernan, when the director hits a rumorly--troublesome production period in Fall 2000, shooting exteriors in Berlin (Germany) and additional shot in British Columbia (Canada), accompanied by a splendid, seemingly motivated cast to make a difference in cinema after awe-stricking "The Matrix" (1999), led by action-carrying actor Christian Bale as John Preston in fittest shapes at age 25 and emotional-arc-carrying Emily Watson, when highly-advanced black-to-white costumes designed by Joseph A. Porro, who misses the ocassional "thin line of red" alongside convincing supports as William Fichtner as resistance leader Jurgen, Angus MacFadyen as supreme leader Dupon and Taye Diggs as the nemesis throughout-uncompromised character of Brandt toward faith-struggling supreme support performance presenting actor Sean Bean, awakening in reminiscene of classic dystopia-novel "Fahrenheit 451" from author Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), when a science-fiction scenario on a system with submerged emotions by equalizing individually-received medication pushes the leading character into confrontation with executive surveilling arm of a global cooperative entity, which does not shy away from on-sight raids and citizen executions with regard the title-given state of human existence.Suspense tightens over a neatly assembled 100-Minute-Editorial by William Yeh and Tom Rolf (1931-2014), when character Preston stops taking his medication under watchful as suspicious of his son, when a truth-seeking odyssey in elegant, stainless decór designed by production designer Wolf Kroeger, favoring Dion Beebe's excellent cinematography towards Christian Bale's transforming ability from ice-cold agent of governmental execution to precisely-choreographed fight scenes by Jim Vickers, letting director Kurt Wimmer deliver after painstaking as character arc fixing period of unusual minor digital effect works indulging two years in post-production the final release on December 6th 2002 to a desastrous attendance at movie houses on the targeted U.S. domestic market to the major disappointment for distributing Walt Disney Pictures affiliate Dimension Films with Harvey & Bob Weinstein executive producing, when nevertheless in retrospective this action-movie can convince under in the realm of low-budget exceeding production values especially in costume, camera and action-chereography. © 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Even though emotions are banned in the film, it certainly manages to evoke many feelings from the audience. The spectacular combination of acting, direction, camera work and extremely well choreographed action scenes allows the viewer to be completely absorbed into the complex story line. Like many others who have watched the film, I do wish the Sean Bean had been more prominent in the film, but the fact that his story line - him not taking the dose, becoming affiliated with the underground, beginning to feel, and inevitably being killed by John Preston (Christian Bale) in a very clever foreshadowing of how John Preston's life will unravel in the near future (with the exception of him being killed).Christian Bale is, as always, fully immersed in his role as the complex Grammaton Cleric John Preston, who is completely dedicated to his job - enforcing the regime of the government upon everyone, and killing anyone who resists. Part of his job includes destroying any remains of a world with feelings. This includes music, literature and art, as is shown when John Preston orders the Mona Lisa to be burnt. As the film progresses, we see immense character development, as a result of a missed dose of the mind-altering drug Prozium by the Cleric. By the second half of the film the audience is left feeling sympathy for Bale's character, after multiple points of his life are revealed - The Cleric found out that his wife was a sense offender after authorities came to arrest her. As a government agent with no feelings, he did not stop them, and was even present when his own wife was marched off for 'termination'. As Preston's feeling begin to return, we see regret forming behind his eyes, and an undeniable hatred for the very system he was upholding beginning to implant itself in his mind. In the end, Cleric John Preston becomes and advocate for the underground resistance and, many brilliantly choreographed and acted fight scenes later, kills the fascist leader of Libria. Bale plays both sides of his character with equal brilliance, and fully captures the essence of the story-line through brilliant acting and emotional attachment to the character which has all been shown through another of his roles previous to this - Patrick Bateman in American Psycho - all before he made a name for himself in The Dark Knight Trilogy. The complexity of not just this role, but all roles Christian Bale has portrayed throughout his career clearly emphasises his abilities as a versatile actor. Equilibrium - Amazing!