Tuesday, June 21, 2005
In the future city of Librium feeling is illeagle. To ensure this is possible Father, the facists leader of Librium, issues promium, a medicine that dispatches all feeling, to be given out to the public. To ensure that this medicine is enforced and that those who have rebelled are brought down The Gramaton Clerics were created. They can sense emotions even before someone might know that they are having them. John Preston is the most highly decorated and highest ranked cleric...and he has beung to feel.
This is the premace for the movie that I have been bringing up time and time again on the blog. Just imagine the martial arts of Kill Bill and the Matrix, the unbelievable ariel movements of The Matrix, and the idea of an opressive criminal system of Minority Report. Yeah that's Equalibrium or in lamens terms Kick Ass. Christian Bale plays John Preston, a dark and brooding anti-hero/hero, (he gets a lot of those doesn't he?) the highest ranked cleric, who after he discovers that his partner is feeling and then kills him, remembers his wife, who was arrested on sense crimes, starts to have emotions of his own. The movie you would think with the Kill Bill/Matrix/Minority Report discription would be action packed. Not as much as you would think. Instead there is a psycological ideal to it as you watch Preston go from Father's Weapon against the resistance to the Champion of the Resistance. Yes there is action and dear god it is pretty. I never knew that guns and martial arts could go together, but they do. Unfortunately it can be slow. So slow that I do not recommend watching it when you are really tired(I dozed off and had to rewind 30 min of the movie, then again I don't sleep that well so...). I recommend being a little awake when you start.
As always Bale does it again. He manages to catch your attention early on and keep it. He makes what was already a medocer movie into a pretty good movie. Taye Diggs is in the movie and makes an excellent villian. Being the self serving and self promoting cleric that wishes to only further his career by catching Preston in the act.
In conclusion the movie is good. very good in fact. It has very beutiful action sequences, martial arts with guns, psycological strong points, and a very good anti hero/hero depending on your perspective. Does it have it's flaws yes. It can be slow, and it can seem a little over done on the stressing of emotion sometimes, in fact maybe one time, and though Diggs makes a good villian, his acting was not the greatest in the world. Is Equalibrium the greatest movie ever? No. Is it the worst movie ever? Dear sweet Christmas NO! It is a very good movie and is very entertaining. If you are into some good action sequences, psycological moments, and a dark story, then this is for you. If your are looking for non stop no plot I like movies that have no plot then step away from the computer slowly. If you are looking for the movie that is better than the Matrix, go see Batman, or rent Pulp Fiction. Though not better than the Matrix, I would say it is damn close to being as good. I highly recomend that you at least give this movie a rental with a **+ out of ****. It is pretty good
This is the premace for the movie that I have been bringing up time and time again on the blog. Just imagine the martial arts of Kill Bill and the Matrix, the unbelievable ariel movements of The Matrix, and the idea of an opressive criminal system of Minority Report. Yeah that's Equalibrium or in lamens terms Kick Ass. Christian Bale plays John Preston, a dark and brooding anti-hero/hero, (he gets a lot of those doesn't he?) the highest ranked cleric, who after he discovers that his partner is feeling and then kills him, remembers his wife, who was arrested on sense crimes, starts to have emotions of his own. The movie you would think with the Kill Bill/Matrix/Minority Report discription would be action packed. Not as much as you would think. Instead there is a psycological ideal to it as you watch Preston go from Father's Weapon against the resistance to the Champion of the Resistance. Yes there is action and dear god it is pretty. I never knew that guns and martial arts could go together, but they do. Unfortunately it can be slow. So slow that I do not recommend watching it when you are really tired(I dozed off and had to rewind 30 min of the movie, then again I don't sleep that well so...). I recommend being a little awake when you start.
As always Bale does it again. He manages to catch your attention early on and keep it. He makes what was already a medocer movie into a pretty good movie. Taye Diggs is in the movie and makes an excellent villian. Being the self serving and self promoting cleric that wishes to only further his career by catching Preston in the act.
In conclusion the movie is good. very good in fact. It has very beutiful action sequences, martial arts with guns, psycological strong points, and a very good anti hero/hero depending on your perspective. Does it have it's flaws yes. It can be slow, and it can seem a little over done on the stressing of emotion sometimes, in fact maybe one time, and though Diggs makes a good villian, his acting was not the greatest in the world. Is Equalibrium the greatest movie ever? No. Is it the worst movie ever? Dear sweet Christmas NO! It is a very good movie and is very entertaining. If you are into some good action sequences, psycological moments, and a dark story, then this is for you. If your are looking for non stop no plot I like movies that have no plot then step away from the computer slowly. If you are looking for the movie that is better than the Matrix, go see Batman, or rent Pulp Fiction. Though not better than the Matrix, I would say it is damn close to being as good. I highly recomend that you at least give this movie a rental with a **+ out of ****. It is pretty good
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