This DVD item from Dimension was reviewed on 27-Oct-2008.
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1) DVD DVD Equilibrium by Dimension. 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¤ 2) DVD DVD Equilibrium by Dimension. 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 did an amazing job, as he normally does, playing a top level agent that seeks out the ´sense offenders´ and destroys them. When he finds he has missed a dose of Prozaim, the ´it´ drug of the times.... He starts to feel, as he begins to process emotions for the first time, he discovers there are ´feelers´ all around him, he joins the resistance and now has to fight ´Father´ the leader of this non-feeling movement.
It is a great story to remind us all why being human is important and special... though I cannot understand how Taye Diggs was supposed to be considered on those drugs.... he may have needed a stronger dose, since all I got out of him was emotion... more so even when Bale´s character is supposed to be off the drugs...
Anyway it is definitely a great movie, I gave it 5 stars, merely because anything that allows me to watch Christian Bale for an hour and a half has to be good :)¤ 3) DVD DVD Equilibrium by Dimension. I 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 characters. As the story unfolded I found the action sequences to be incredibly choreographed with a form of battle combining guns and movement that I´ve never seen anywhere else. It was a combination of really exciting action and good story telling.
This is a movie that´s easy to overlook, but I recommend it to any real sci-fi fan.¤ 4) DVD DVD Equilibrium by Dimension. 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.¤ 5) DVD DVD Equilibrium by Dimension. Special effects might be good at that time but not good compared to movies of the last 3 years + So so acting + Typical plot = Not good.¤ 6) DVD DVD Equilibrium by Dimension. 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).¤ 7) DVD DVD Equilibrium by Dimension. 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¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 24-Nov-2008, 786936181081, 530-WNB-VVB-QAB-ESB-M2B-F2B-8 
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