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Actors: Christian Bale, David Barrash, Sean Bean, Francesco Cabras, Maria Pia Calzone Rating: Features: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 107 minutes Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Release Date: May 13, 2003 Theatrical Release Date: 2002 Studio: Dimension
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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.
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
