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Equilibrium

starring: Christian Bale, David Barrash, Sean Bean, Francesco Cabras, Maria Pia Calzone

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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936181081
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Dimension
Manufacturer: Dimension
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Dimension
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Running Time: 107 minutes
Sales Rank: 621
Studio: Dimension
Theatrical Release Date: 2002



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Description:
Delivering awesome high-tech action in the power-packed style of THE MATRIX and MINORITY REPORT, EQUILIBRIUM stars Christian Bale (REIGN OF FIRE) and Taye Diggs (CHICAGO) in a thrilling look at a future where the only crime is being human! In an attempt to end wars and maintain peace, humankind has outlawed the things that trigger emotion -- literature, music, and art. To uphold the law, a special breed of police is assigned to eliminate all transgressors. But when the top enforcer (Bale) misses a dose of an emotion-blocking drug, he begins to realize that things are not as they seem! Also starring Sean Bean (THE LORD OF THE RINGS) and Emily Watson (RED DRAGON).

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



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Logans Run Reloaded
I have read the first couple of pages of the reviews and am surprised that no-one has yet made the ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Kurt Wimmer Shines
Christian Bale and Taye Diggs did a fantastic job in this movie and we can't forget the commanding ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - 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 ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Awesome!!!!
I was skeptical at first when someone suggested this movie and I was hooked after watching the opening fight/gun ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Atmospheric Movie..
This movie features a bleak, emotionless future to resolve human conflicts such as war, interesting as it is, instead ... Read More

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