Borrows from so many literary and cinematic sources that this future world feels absolutely deja vu.
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Equilibrium (2002)
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Reviews Counted:81
Fresh:29
Rotten:52
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Equilibrium is a reheated mishmash of other sci-fi movies.
Theatrical Release:Dec 6, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $1,050,459
Synopsis: Director Kurt Wimmer (ULTRAVIOLET) injects style into this sci-fi/action film that channels the visual energy of THE MATRIX and invokes the politics of BRAVE NEW WORLD. In a futuristic society... [More]
Starring: Christian Bale, Sean Bean, Taye Diggs, William Fichtner
Director: Kurt Wimmer
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Reviews for Equilibrium
Top CriticIt's super- violent, super-serious and super-stupid.
12/06/02
Top CriticThe notion of deleting emotion from people, even in an advanced Prozac Nation, is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed Equilibrium becomes a concept doofus.
12/06/02
A dull, somnambulant exercise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by frequent outbursts of violence and noise.
12/06/02
Dour and charmless.
12/06/02
Top CriticNaggingly inconsistent and oppressively dumb.
12/06/02
You can practically hear George Orwell turning over.
12/06/02
Giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is part of the fun. But the talented cast alone will keep you watching, as will the fight scenes.
12/06/02
Top CriticIt doesn't do a lot of deep thinking, but unlike many futuristic combos of sf and f/x, it does make a statement: Freedom of opinion is a threat to totalitarian systems.
12/06/02
Top CriticA lackluster exercise in derivation almost completely free of fresh ideas.
12/06/02
It's a long way from Orwell's dark, intelligent warning cry [1984] to the empty stud knockabout of Equilibrium, and what once was conviction is now affectation.
12/06/02
Just because it's a good idea doesn't mean it's easy to do well.
12/06/02
Top CriticPredictable and dispiriting.
12/06/02
What you would end up with if you took Orwell, Bradbury, Kafka, George Lucas and the Wachowski Brothers and threw them into a blender. But that's just the problem with it - the director hasn't added enough of his own ingredients.
12/06/02
Sci-fi rehash, which is more interested in video-game-style violence and a high body count than exploring cool story possibilities or preventing plot inconsistencies.
12/06/02
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A movie that could be stupider only if it were longer.
12/06/02
Top CriticIlliterate, often inert sci-fi action thriller.
12/06/02
Top CriticEquilibrium the movie, as opposed to the manifesto, is really, really stupid.
12/06/02
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