Equilibrium

With a modern day Orwellian society well in the making, Political Correctness, intollerance towards differing view points, Censoring free speech, a pharmaceutical dependant population and a willing aggressor this movie is a tale of modern times. By replacing the various players with modern day events you can see this. Even the puppy can be brought into the modern day equation by viewing this as Iran where recently several people have been arrested inprisoned and fined for owning dogs.

Welcome to the Future,right here, right now.

I love this movie!! I got it in plenty of time for Christmas and in perfect condition.

Can one be loyal to the Matrix...
in n reruns?
Yes, this is a future mind control
film patterned on the Matrix.
Only the world isn't virtual
and the low is drug induced
not plugged in.
Worlds where revolt is by a "super hero"
who is the savior.
In the true future I think we will all be our own priests
and saviors and I doubt
that as tempting as killing evil seems,
that is the solution.
Rome was brought to an end by
Christians who were not above being eaten by lions
in the coliseum.
The eastern martial arts...in a anti-utopia?!

This movie fails to deliver the science and intrigue promised. What it has a lot of is guns, guns, guns and more guns.

Based on the Gun Katas; stand in the centre of a dark room and move only your arms while 12 opponents with automatic weapons try to shoot you. Result 12 dead oponents with No injury to you, the cleric and not even a sweat!

Next,you destroy an elite police squad to save a puppy (DOG) but watch emotionless as a dozen HUMANS are lined up against a wall and slaughtered again and again and again. Conclusion: dogs are worth more than people.

You discover emotion and feelings for a woman while being videotaped in a high security prison but no one notices the display of affection and emotion in a society where emotion is outlawed.

AN elite cleric team surrounds you, the most dangerous cleric, at arm distance with their swords sheathed, you slaughter them. Not one scratch on you.

You take out the number 2 cleric in 3 seconds and 3 moves.

All this without breaking a nail or a sweat.

This movie was a total disappointment. Utterly unbeliveable. The pace was boring at times, the "battles" pointles ( the outcome was always the same) and the end was ridiculous.

I understand that several perons were moved by the actions sequences,the style copied from a famous predecessor. Remember that you are judging THIS movie!

If you like guns, guns and more guns...then this is the movie for you. For the rest of us who want some science and reason: skip Failibrium.

Just watched it. It's a really good movie IMO and very similar to V for Vendetta. In both movies, the system is overthrown by the achievements of one skilled man (of course with help from other characters and lucky circumstances). While V remains in the underground, main character Cleric John Preston is a government official. By first accidentally and later intentionally leaving out his daily dose of sedative drugs (which all of the population has to take), his "awakening" is initiated. Because of his innate ability to feel and the newly gained ability to see the cruelties of the militant, killing regime, he receives one shock after the other, but quickly learns to develop a strategic enclosure to keep his position and save his life. He meets other people in the resistance movement that play this strategic game too.

With some unexpected turnarounds, the movie is thrilling until the very end. The actors are perfectly suited for the main characters: Cleric Preston (Christian Bale) as a man of conscience and the vice-chancellor as perfect psychopath, who says in one of the last scenes (paraphrasing), "don't take away my dreams."

So, the movie is worth the money -- at least, that is -- because it presents a handy metaphor for the process of awakening, seeing, receiving shocks, building of a strategic enclosure and "acting for one's destiny", regardless of the difficulties. The shock for the audience of the movie is to see how our reality is slowly turned into that presented in Equilibrium...

Get it and spread it around!