Equilibrium

Starring: Bale, Christian and Bean, Sean

Product Description

In a futuristic world, emotion is outlawed and human behavior is controlled by a drug, Prozium, that hinders emotion. A government official is in charge of going around and eliminating potential threats to the regime. When the official forgets to take his dose of Prozium, a whole new world is opened up to him and he takes on the establishment that he's supposed to be working for.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 786936181081
• Release Date: March 2002
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Publisher: Ingram Entertainment
• Director: Wimmer, Kurt
• Starring: Bale, Christian, Bean, Sean
• Runtime: 1 hour, 40 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"
• Age Range: 17 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

This is a fun slice-and-dice movie.

Soon, the state or the government will try to prevent people from expressing their propensity for war. They may be a little heavy-handed, but they mean well. Their solution is to stifle emotions. We never have time to find out if their experiment would’ve worked or not, for there are underground rebels that “feel” that this is not the correct approach. Now the state must find the rebels before they disrupt the experiment. The rebels must displace the state with chaos and ensure that everybody has lots of feelings. One man who might be capable of bringing these changes, John Preston (Christian Bale), who is now in the employ of the government, may soon see the light. Will he bring on these changes? Will he want to? We get to watch it. Do we want to? I do. If you like action, there is plenty of it. Not only is there a lot of slice and dice, but there is also a lot of shoot-em-up and chase scenes. Usually, the good guys wear white hats and the bad guys wear black hats. For that person who likes plot twists, this movie has a few. Some people like to equate this story with “1984” by George Orwell, and I can see that there are some aspects, but this is not a remake. There is a small architectural resemblance to “Metropolis” (1927). Other people watched the hero flip around and try to compare this to “The Matrix.” Again, it doesn’t carry the same message, and the technology is not equivalent. I would consider this more of a remake of a movie called “V for Vendetta” (2005), where the hero, who might or might not be a good guy, realizes what’s valuable in life and goes after the tyrant suppressing the people. Of course, “V for Vendetta” Was made later, so it might be a copy of this movie.