In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Christian Bale Taye Diggs Angus Macfadyen Matthew Harbour Sean Bean Emily Watson Sean Pertwee Emily Siewert Maria Pia Calzone Dominic Purcell William Fichtner David Hemmings David Barrash Christian Kahrmann John Keogh Dirk Martens Florian Fitz Francesco Cabras Brian Conley Anatole Taubman Kurt Wimmer
Jim Vickers Tomas Jester Ralf Tillmann Mike Luft Udo Lüttich Byron Brisco Rob 'Sluggo' Boyce Keith Splinter Davis Rocco Russo Stefano Maria Mioni Emiliano Novelli Alessandro Borgese Bruno Verdirosi Paolo Antonini Mike Smith
Frank Kruse Lane Burch Brian Ruberg Shawn Kennelly Matthew Dettmann Gary A. Hecker Edward Steidele Byron Miller Donald Flick Dana Gustafson William Jacobs Martin Lopez Jon Mete Greg ten Bosch Samuel Lehmer Jeffrey Perkins Stephen Hunter Flick Peter Brown Charlie Ajar Jr. Michael J. Benavente
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Brazil16
Hungary16
PortugalM/12
Spain16
USAR
Kazakhstan
Russia16+
Ireland15
UK15
Japan
Canada14A
AustraliaM
CzechiaU
FranceTP
ItalyT
Slovakia
South Korea
Germany16
Netherlands12
Lithuania
Greece16
Poland12
USAR
Sweden15
Netherlands12
Netherlands12
Netherlands12
Australia
Brazil
Canada
Czechia
France
Germany
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Hungary
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Netherlands
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I take it that people aren't allowed to listen to Huey Lewis and the News in this society
*snapping my finger at the screen every three seconds*
That’s an emotion.
That’s an emotion!
THAT is definitely an emotion!
christian bale in all white with his hair slicked back and a cut on his lip.... I DARE YOU TO HAVE MY BABIES SIR
John Preston and John Wick would totally be best friends. I mean, they both underwent life altering events due to a puppy.
Christian Bale makes this 10x better. I just find it insanely watchable seeing his character gradually feel emotion while undergoing an internal conflict. It's best not to take this too seriously. It's a slice of early 2000s dystopian cheesy sci-fi goodness and it knows it. If this got a higher budget, a bigger studio behind it and a more prominent director, this could've been on the level of other beloved sci-fi movies.
With each rewatch, my admiration grows. Something as simple as feeling is ever the more important today. Our emotions, our art, are what define the human experience when words aren’t sufficient. It’s what gives meaning to all of this. Equilibrium preaches that sentiment while delivering 1984 meets The Matrix if it had been directed by John Woo and it’s nothing short of a masterpiece. Blade Runner-esque lighting with powerful cinematography — that shot of the Mona Lisa set ablaze, or Errol reading W.B. Yeats “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven.” I can’t believe the dynamic camera work, which is so fluid when we enter fight sequences — it’s almost as if you’re watching water flow from a river. It’s brutal when it needs to be, tender to open our hearts; it’s the beauty of life and I think all of us should tread softly because we might not know whose dreams we tread on.
