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Equilibrium starring: Christian Bale, David Barrash, Sean Bean, Francesco Cabras, Maria Pia Calzone List Price: $14.99 Childrens Bookshop Price: $9.49 You Save: $5.50 (37%)Prices subject to change. |
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 0786936181081 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Dimension Manufacturer: Dimension Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Dimension Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 13, 2003 Running Time: 107 minutes Studio: Dimension Theatrical Release Date: 2002 Sales Rank: 1868 MPN: D26095D Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Description: Delivering awesome high-tech action in the power-packed style of THE MATRIX and MINORITY REPORT, EQUILIBRIUM stars Christian Bale (REIGN OF FIRE) and Taye Diggs (CHICAGO) in a thrilling look at a future where the only crime is being human! In an attempt to end wars and maintain peace, humankind has outlawed the things that trigger emotion -- literature, music, and art. To uphold the law, a special breed of police is assigned to eliminate all transgressors. But when the top enforcer (Bale) misses a dose of an emotion-blocking drug, he begins to realize that things are not as they seem! Also starring Sean Bean (THE LORD OF THE RINGS) and Emily Watson (RED DRAGON). Amazon.com: A broad science fiction thriller in a classic vein, Equilibrium takes a respectable stab at a Fahrenheit 451-like cautionary fable. The story finds Earth's post-World War III humankind in a state of severe emotional repression: If no one feels anything, no one will be inspired by dark passions to attack their neighbors. Writer-director Kurt Wimmer's monochromatic, Metropolis-influenced cityscape provides an excellent backdrop to the heavy-handed mission of John Preston (Christian Bale), a top cop who busts "sense offenders" and crushes sentimental, sensual, and artistic relics from a bygone era. Predictably, Preston becomes intrigued by his victims and that which they die to cherish; he stops taking his mandatory, mood-flattening drug and is even aroused by a doomed prisoner (Emily Watson). Wimmer's wrongheaded martial arts/dueling guns motif is sheer silliness (a battle over a puppy doesn't help), but Equilibrium should be seen for Bale's moving performance as a man shocked back to human feeling. --Tom Keogh Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Not as Bad as I Thought It Would Be ... Not as Good as It Could Have BeenMy teenage son brought this movie from the library. Judging from the cover, I was concerned that this would be a low-budget rip-off of the Matrix. (As an aside, some reviewers have protested the comparisons to Matrix. Please. Just compare the jacket covers.) It wasn't a blatant rip-off. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. But it wasn't nearly as good as it could have been. To his credit, Christian Bale had some interesting scenes. IMHO, Sean Bean was ... Read More: Rating:  - Awesome!!!!I was skeptical at first when someone suggested this movie and I was hooked after watching the opening fight/gun scene. I liked it better than The Matrix as there are no crazy special effects and people floating in mid-air, etc. Another Christian Bale DVD added to the collection. Taye Diggs is a bit of a tool in this movie but did a swell job in a supporting role. Shipping was superfast btw, especially me being overseas an all....kudos to Amazon!!! :D Rating: - Atmospheric Movie..This movie features a bleak, emotionless future to resolve human conflicts such as war, interesting as it is, instead of just putting the 'sense offenders' back on medication, they choose to kill them. I did not understand the meaning behind that, and how any society would ever find that to be a solution, however for the sake of moviemaker plot line, it was a pretty surrealist look into a world ironically not too different from ours... in some parts of the world anyway. Christian Bale ... Read More: Rating: - A favorite flick - highly recommendedI don't remember ever seeing any press on this movie, and I only picked it up after watching just about every other sci-fi ever made. I was very surprised to find that this is a movie I could watch over and over. One thing I found impressive was the creation of a very different vision of the future. The sets and costumes along with the culture combined to create a believable world. The story grabbed me in and kept me interested. I found myself really caring about what happened to the main ... Read More: Rating: - Top notch future cop shooter slasher flick The violence and cinematography in this film are first class. There's plenty of action and a good presentation of a dark, sinister future. Bale is on good form and the whole film delivers very, very well indeed. |
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