Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936181081
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Dimension
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageSpanishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Dimension
MPN: D26095D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Dimension
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Running Time: 107 minutes
Studio: Dimension
Theatrical Release Date: 2002

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
The matrix meets minority report Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 06/06/2006 Starring: Christian Bale Sean Bean Run time: 100 minutes Rating: R Director: Kurt Wimmer

Amazon.com:
A broad science fiction thriller in a classic vein, Equilibrium takes a respectable stab at a Fahrenheit 451-like cautionary fable. The story finds Earth's post-World War III humankind in a state of severe emotional repression: If no one feels anything, no one will be inspired by dark passions to attack their neighbors. Writer-director Kurt Wimmer's monochromatic, Metropolis-influenced cityscape provides an excellent backdrop to the heavy-handed mission of John Preston (Christian Bale), a top cop who busts "sense offenders" and crushes sentimental, sensual, and artistic relics from a bygone era. Predictably, Preston becomes intrigued by his victims and that which they die to cherish; he stops taking his mandatory, mood-flattening drug and is even aroused by a doomed prisoner (Emily Watson). Wimmer's wrongheaded martial arts/dueling guns motif is sheer silliness (a battle over a puppy doesn't help), but Equilibrium should be seen for Bale's moving performance as a man shocked back to human feeling. --Tom Keogh




Rating: - ok
I was shocked to see the high rating review this movie got from it's viewers. My overall feel of the movie is...it's boring. The plot had the potential to be good, I have seen almost all the utopian films out there and I had high hopes for this film. The acting is good, Christian Bale always gives a great performance but unfortunately the plot lacks.
Overall it was an Ok movie but nothing I would watch again.

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Rating: - Logans Run Reloaded
I have read the first couple of pages of the reviews and am surprised that no-one has yet made the comparison to Logans Run, the 70s sci-fi classic, where Michael Yorke is a Sandman, an emotionless cop tasked with killing "runners", people who try and escape the domed city the story is set in to avoid being forcibly terminated on their 30th birthdays. Logan tasked with infiltrating the resistance begins to empathise with them and becomes a runner himself. Sounds familiar?

Equilibrium ... Read More

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Rating: - Kurt Wimmer Shines
Christian Bale and Taye Diggs did a fantastic job in this movie and we can't forget the commanding scenes with Sean Bean and Emily Watson in the film. I think Christian Bale proved in this film that he was ready to be Batman. It was in a sense a feature length introduction

At the end of the day though this movie is Kurt Wimmer's. He's a very experienced playwright. He demonstrated that he can write an engaging story that has developed almost a cult following years after the production ... Read More

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Rating: - Not as Bad as I Thought It Would Be ... Not as Good as It Could Have Been
My teenage son brought this movie from the library.

Judging from the cover, I was concerned that this would be a low-budget rip-off of the Matrix. (As an aside, some reviewers have protested the comparisons to Matrix. Please. Just compare the jacket covers.)

It wasn't a blatant rip-off. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. But it wasn't nearly as good as it could have been.

To his credit, Christian Bale had some interesting scenes. IMHO, Sean Bean was wasted ... Read More

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Rating: - Awesome!!!!
I was skeptical at first when someone suggested this movie and I was hooked after watching the opening fight/gun scene. I liked it better than The Matrix as there are no crazy special effects and people floating in mid-air, etc. Another Christian Bale DVD added to the collection. Taye Diggs is a bit of a tool in this movie but did a swell job in a supporting role. Shipping was superfast btw, especially me being overseas an all....kudos to Amazon!!! :D

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