Top-notch movie with impressive production design , marvelous effects and incredible visual designs . Attractive and over-the-top Sci-Fi with some of the best and stupendous action scenes ever made . This excitingly original film is full of thrills , cutting-edge visuals , stylist innovations , groundbreaking fights , tension , suspense , but also several commercial elements , including computer-simulated violence . This is a dynamic, fast-paced and amusing movie , though downbeat . It's an enjoyable , if somewhat light-headed piece of escapism with state-of-art special effects and straightforward screenplay . Big-budgeted film by the great producers Andrew Rona , Bob Weinstein , Harvey Weinstein , Jan De Bont led to break into the booming Sci-Fi//fantasy market plenty of inventiveness and imagination . Full of action , it's complemented by rousing scenes , breathtaking fights and struggles are spotlights . It is set in an oppressive future where all forms of feeling are ilegal . Dealing with John Preston (Christian Bale) , a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system and state , he is a top Grammaton Cleric with fabulous martial art skills detailed to search out rebels and refuseniks at the strange world of Libria where literatura and art are no-nos . This rebellious people haven't been taking their daily dose of emotion supressing called Prozium . Of course , so when Preston catches colleague Partridge (Sean Bean) with his nose in the poetry of WB Yeats , he knows his partner will face the same fate like John's spouse : elimination by burning for sense offences . But the seeds of doubt are sown . John secretly pockets the book and later on , he becomes into an unrepentant offender . Then , Preston learns from mysterious rebels and one day , a group seeks him out and introduces him to the true nature of the hidden reality and his role in the war against its controllers . John learns about Libria , he is aware all life on Earth may be nothing more than an elaborate masquerade created by a malevolent cyber-intelligence led by Father (Sean Pertwee). Will new partner Brandt (Taye Diggs) intuit his posible defection ? Preston races against time to get his purports . Meanwhile , a traitor betrays the group and the events get worse . The group desperately battle to hold back the marauding enforcers from overtaking them .
It is a dark time for the world in this dystopian flick as the epic war between domineering authorities and dominated slaves reaches a thundering crescendo , being a Matrix wannabe . This is an action-packed , booming yarn with some of the best crossfire scenes ever filmed , plenty of bounds with shots , including awesome visual effects . This thrilling movie contains impressive fights , chills , breathtaking designs , dense philosophy and many other things . From the beginning to the end the comic-book action-packed and extreme violence is continued and it's fast movement ; that's why the picture is pretty amusing ; furthermore contains lots of spectacular combats in mart arts style , being masterfully staged . The plot may have some virtue of transparent plagiarism taking parts here and there of other dystopian stories . Contrived beyond belief with spectacular struggles that play like video games , but slickly calculated to please 2000s audiences .Cast is pretty well , it stars Christian Bale , he is fine but very serious , he is too self-conscious as an action hero . He is well accompanied by a nice support cast , as Emily Watson who as Mary O'Brien as a rebel who feels his own equilibrium waver . Along with other notorious secondaries such as : Sean Bean , Sean Pertwee , John Keogh , William Fichtner , Angus Macfadyen , Anatole Taubman , David Hemmins , Harbour , Dominic Purcell , Kurt Wimmer himself , among others .
It contains moving and pulsing musical score by Klaus Badelt . Magnificent , glamorous production design and ably mixing monumental totalitarism gothic CGI setting along with Berlin locations . Colorful and imaginative cinematography by Dion Beebe . Kurt Wimmer's good debut , and it sports the requisite metallic tecno sheen . Kurt Wimmer is a prestigious writer who has written important films , such as : Sphere , The case of Thomas Crown , Point break , Street Kings , Total Recall , Salt , The wolves , The misfits , Law abiden citizen . And he has directed a few films , such as : One Tough Bastard , Ultaviolet and this Equibrium . Rating : 7/10 . Better than average . Well worth watching .
It is a dark time for the world in this dystopian flick as the epic war between domineering authorities and dominated slaves reaches a thundering crescendo , being a Matrix wannabe . This is an action-packed , booming yarn with some of the best crossfire scenes ever filmed , plenty of bounds with shots , including awesome visual effects . This thrilling movie contains impressive fights , chills , breathtaking designs , dense philosophy and many other things . From the beginning to the end the comic-book action-packed and extreme violence is continued and it's fast movement ; that's why the picture is pretty amusing ; furthermore contains lots of spectacular combats in mart arts style , being masterfully staged . The plot may have some virtue of transparent plagiarism taking parts here and there of other dystopian stories . Contrived beyond belief with spectacular struggles that play like video games , but slickly calculated to please 2000s audiences .Cast is pretty well , it stars Christian Bale , he is fine but very serious , he is too self-conscious as an action hero . He is well accompanied by a nice support cast , as Emily Watson who as Mary O'Brien as a rebel who feels his own equilibrium waver . Along with other notorious secondaries such as : Sean Bean , Sean Pertwee , John Keogh , William Fichtner , Angus Macfadyen , Anatole Taubman , David Hemmins , Harbour , Dominic Purcell , Kurt Wimmer himself , among others .
It contains moving and pulsing musical score by Klaus Badelt . Magnificent , glamorous production design and ably mixing monumental totalitarism gothic CGI setting along with Berlin locations . Colorful and imaginative cinematography by Dion Beebe . Kurt Wimmer's good debut , and it sports the requisite metallic tecno sheen . Kurt Wimmer is a prestigious writer who has written important films , such as : Sphere , The case of Thomas Crown , Point break , Street Kings , Total Recall , Salt , The wolves , The misfits , Law abiden citizen . And he has directed a few films , such as : One Tough Bastard , Ultaviolet and this Equibrium . Rating : 7/10 . Better than average . Well worth watching .