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"Equilibrium"

I saw this film a few weeks back at a mates house and thoroughly enjoyed it. I meant to buy it myself, but promptly forgot to only to be reminded when I saw the picture of Christian Bale as Batman posted elsewhere in this forum.

If you don't know the film, it's sort of a cross between 1984 and The Matrix having, as it does, a totalitarian dictatorship that controls people and forces them to take drugs to suppress their emotions while at the same time featuring cool guys with long black coats, big guns, swords and plenty of fancy moves.

The official spiel is ...

"A future where the world is at peace but emotions are gone; war is a distant memory, and so is music, art and poetry. Here, emotion is illegal and feeling is a crime punishable by death. Clerick John Preston (Christian Bale) is the government agent responsible for destroying those who resist the rules, but forced to kill one of his own agents, he begins to question everything. Now the man who has been trained to enforce the strict laws, suddenly becomes the only person capable of overthrowing it."

It's a darn enjoyable film that I personally hadn't even heard of until I watched it and it immediately earned a place in my top 5 (just behind Grosse Pointe Blank :^).

Rent it, at least, and give it a go. You never know ... you just might like it.

TIMMARGH!

*disPute* wrote:
> it's a good film but sean bean is criminally under-used
That was my biggest problem with it!

well, people had reservations about my other weapons

ßora† §agdiyeV wrote:
> last night I shot 32 imaginary people in just one minute.
*****

With bullets I hope ...

I regularly do Gun Kata's in the dark, stark bolllock naked and blindfolded.

last night I shot 32 imaginary people in just one minute.

take that, lee harvey oswald.

Gah! This totally slipped my mind last week!

I'll make a note to rent it out after work tomorrow!

I did however, pick up American Psycho, American History X and Poetic Justice on DVD...

Never seen American Psycho before. Pretty good I thought.

My DVD arrived today - woohoo!

Next step: talk the carer into going out one evening so I can watch it in the dark with the amp turned up ...

ßulle†† wrote:
> Might rent it tonight...
*****

Do it!

it's a good film but sean bean is criminally under-used

I thought it was great and have the DVD. Bear in mind the budget that it was filmed on was less than my average bar bill, and you will realise how well they really did.

I spouted its glories ages ago and got zilch interest. I'm a trendsetter I am.

So is this worth checking out then? I was put off seeing it at the cinema because everyone was saying it was a crappy rip-off of Matrix.

Might rent it tonight...