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11/26/02
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
US 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
Reviews for Equilibrium
Top CriticPost 9/11 the philosophical message of “Personal Freedom First” might not be as palatable as intended.
11/06/02
Cold, Sterile And Lacking Any Color Or Warmth.
12/17/02
... a preachy parable stylized with a touch of John Woo bullet ballet.
12/05/02
A dull, somnambulant exercise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by frequent outbursts of violence and noise.
12/06/02
Wimmer delivers the already labored story with the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
09/06/03
...a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone.
12/03/02
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
You can practically hear George Orwell turning over.
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
It's the funniest American comedy since Graffiti Bridge.
12/06/02
C’est un film qui rivalise avec les plus gros blockbusters hollywoodiens. Je l’ai trouvé beaucoup plus satisfaisant que The Matrix Reloaded.
12/16/04
A science-fiction pastiche so lacking in originality that if you stripped away its inspirations there would be precious little left.
12/05/02
Top CriticThe premise is overshadowed by the uberviolence of the Clericks as this becomes just another kung-fu sci-fi movie with silly action sequences.
12/06/02
Who knew that a reunion of Metroland stars Bale and Watson could yield something so downright nutty?
01/31/09
What it lacks in originality it makes up for in intelligence and B-grade stylishness.
12/05/02
Equilibrium is what George Orwell might have imagined had today's mood-altering drug therapy been envisioned by chemists in 1949.
12/18/02
It 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 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
Illiterate, often inert sci-fi action thriller.
12/06/02
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