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Saturday 5 May 2012

Equilibrium (2002)

Equilibrium steals its entire plot from George Orwell's 1984 and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. It has nothing original to say whatsoever.
Emotion is punishable by death. The people are policed by law enforcing warrior-priests who use drugs to suppress their own emotions, so Christian Bale’s wooden acting and inability to emote is probably what got him the job. Besides the environment, the only thing it does well is killed off in the first ten minutes.
Emily Watson brings the beautiful to an empty shell of a film.

1 the architecture is the real star out of 5

3 comments:

cuckoo said...

Good to know I'm not the only one who thought this one fucking sucked.

So many people said it's so original. Fuck 'em...they have no idea what's behind the doors of Room 101.

Impudent Urinal said...

3 I don't want to go to film school if I can't like Gun Kata out of 5.

I know Bean is contractually obligated to die, but so soon?

Dr Faustus said...

Bean's quoting of Yeats was the best thing in it.
Followed by Ms Watson.
The dir used that gun-fu shit again in Ultraviolet, with Mila "multipass" Jovovich. She was hot, the film was not.
I made bad rhyme. Kill me.