Friday, March 12, 2010

Equilibrium by Kurt Wimmer

Category: English

A future in which emotions are removed and the people are ruled by a greedy all controlling entity, in all of this our hero Christian Bale's character falls from grace as a top ranking enforcer known as a Grammaton Cleric to join the resistance and bash the baddies!

The fight sequences are pretty well choreographed and while the director is pretty bad at completely controlling things he does make this movie a decent watch thanks to a well backed cast which at times is wasted (Emily Watson, Sean Bean).

The movie definitely has some amount of philosophy in it which is sadly all popular culture based and fans of a dystopian future with an all controling big Brother (Father in this movie) might find this a little flaccid.

Recommendation level: 2/5 - If you're a Bale fan this ranks pretty high so I'd say it's a 4/5. Watch it when you have nothing to do and need to kill time at the end of the week. Got this from my earlier collection. Oh by the way Kurt Wimmer also directed the turkey known as Ultraviolet.

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