Equilibrium

2002

Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller

201
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 81% · 87 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 81% · 250K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 360444 360.4K

martial arts resistance dystopia fascism anti hero totalitarian regime

Plot summary

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.

Director

Kurt Wimmer Photo
Kurt Wimmer

Top cast

Christian Bale Photo
Christian Bale as John Preston
Sean Pertwee Photo
Sean Pertwee as Father
Sean Bean Photo
Sean Bean as Partridge
Dominic Purcell Photo
Dominic Purcell as Seamus
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650.39 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 47 min
Seeds 61
1.97 GB
1904*816
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 47 min
Seeds 100

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by alexanderliljefors 7 / 10

A film everyone needs to see

First of all, a extremly tought provoking film!Definitely a great film that really captures the essence of what makes us human. And how we need to protect freedom, democracy and culture forever.I really think it manages to capture the human mind and the human experience of life and society.Christian Bale fits perfectly for this role capturing his classic performances and abilitys as a actor during these "cold" roles he usually does.Soundtrack is amazing!Amazing script and filming aswell!What makes my rating abit lower, from being a stable 8 or 9 is the exaggerated actionscenes that takes too much space.Otherwise then that, its a movie that everyone should watch to understand how dangerous power could be and that we need to fight for freedom every day.
Reviewed by IrisGoeth 8 / 10

but seriously... Could Christian Bale be any better?

My review is one on Christian Bale rather than the movie per se. His going from stone-cold to an emotional man is simply flawless. He gets to transmit everything the story needs at the right time. Bale is the greatest actor of his generation and never afraid to get his hands REALLY dirty. He's played a highly controversial psycho (in an admittedly light version of a really crude and insightful novel... But you realise after you watch him, every time you read the novel again HE IS Patrick Bateman), a LITERALLY starving and tormented loner (please see The Machinist if only for his PERFECT, ground-breaking work of art, which includes both his acting skills and his beyond-emaciated body), a hopeful gay teenager turned hopeless adult (Velvet Goldmine, where he's amazingly accurate in a minor -as length goes- role and you really believe he's a shy and lively teenager and minutes later you believe he's a weary, melancholy adult), a conflicted superhero (the best Batman by far, followed by Michael Keaton of course) and all sorts of middle-of-the-road characters. He's not your average mainstream star and he'll never be, I hope... He's too much in love with his work to become that. Good for him.Equilibrium is a very fine movie. Highly entertaining, the score was more than okay, the casting does a really good job (I liked The Matrix -although I prefer Equilibrium's sobriety and rhythm, which many may find boring-, but come on... The actors were inferior and I'm sorry but Keanu Reeves just can't make it. Where Bale is all complex, nuanced and charismatic, Reeves is just handsome wood) and the fight scenes are beautiful to look at. Cons are the Father, who seemed too weak to me, and the ending which doesn't do justice to what comes before. In any case, this is an above-average sci-fi flick. Take a look.
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