Equilibrium (2002)

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	Year of first release: 2002
	Director: Kurt Wimmer (Ultraviolet)
	Actors:  Christian Bale (The Dark Knight trilogy), Sean Bean (Black Death, The Lord of the Ring), Emily Watson, Sean Pertwee (Gotham TV-series), William Fichtner (Contact, Elysium)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, SF
	Conditions of visioning: 07.03.2016, HD VOD, Home cinema
Synopsis After humanity is almost decimated by a third World War, an isolated city decides to ban what they think is the cause of all our problems: emotions. Preston (Bale) and Partridge (Bean) are investigators in charge of enforcing that law.
Review: At the time of its release it was obvious that Equilibrium was surfing on the wave of success from The Matrix and it gathers similar elements of a post-apocalyptic world and original fight designs. The original idea of the movie is interesting, but unfortunately its logic is questionable every ten minutes: how can you prove that someone is feeling? Don't you feel as long as you live, and what about being a couple and making children? But once you accept that, the movie is otherwise interestingly played by a young pair Bale/Bean that is credible in their interaction with each other. The special effects looks pretty cheap, and the whole idea of gunfighting strategy based on statistical bullet trajectories is under-used (see also Timur Bekmambetov 2008 Wanted for a vaguely similar concept). But what I will remember from that movie is the point of view of the People in a totalitarian society, obviously inspired by the classic 1984 and only recently back to fashion with for example Children of Men, The Hunger Games or Divergent. It is always interesting to see how filmmakers try to imagine a plausible future.
Rating: 5 /10