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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 CriticEither Preston is really good at martial arts, or everyone else is really bad. Probably a little of both.
12/04/02
This inventive, low-budget science-fiction movie stands on its own, from its bracing, ingenious fight sequences to its literate roots in dystopian fiction.
12/06/02
It's the action sequences in this movie that sell.
12/05/02
What a dumb, fun, curiously adolescent movie this is.
02/18/03
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05/13/03
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
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12/07/02
Top CriticA lackluster exercise in derivation almost completely free of fresh ideas.
12/06/02
Someone should have arrested Wimmer for being a common-sense offender when he first typed the script.
12/05/02
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 characters act like robots, and the story unfolds like a computer program.
12/05/02
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04/29/09
Apesar de obviamente inspirado em Matrix (para não citar 1984 e Fahrenheit 451, entre outros), o filme convence graças ao interessante dilema emocional de seu protagonista e às intensas coreografias das seqüências de ação.
06/27/03
Combining elements of 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and The Matrix, this ridiculous sci-fi mish-mash sounds appealing, but is nothing more than a poorly designed knockoff.
12/05/02
Superb production values & Christian Bale's charisma make up for a derivative plot.
11/11/02
There is something charming in the way it bravely invites derision, like the boy in the high school play who can't remember his lines and decides to milk an awkward situation for laughs instead.
12/05/02
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
The dumbest view of the future I've seen (and, reader, I survived John Travolta in Battlefield Earth).
03/16/03
What it lacks in originality it makes up for in intelligence and B-grade stylishness.
12/05/02
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