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Basically an updating of 1984.
Feelings are outlawed in some near future after WW3. Feelings are deemed to cause wars/hate/jealousy/fear and are banned.
Instead of thought-crimes, there are "sense-crimes"
Instead of Big Brother on massive screens telling everyone that individuality is bad, "Father" is on massive screens tellinge everyone that feelings are bad and listing unauthorised items such as books, music etc etc.
Instead of the Thought-Police, there are Clerics.
But to all intents and purposes, it's 1984.
With a "brand-new martial art" called Gun-Kata. Which amounts to lots of fast cutting and shooting.
Christian Bale plays Cleric Somethingorother, traipsing around in a big black...well...Cleric's coat - reminiscent of Matrix Reloaded.
There's a plot about the resistance, a group of people that refuset to take their dosage of whatever drug everyone takes to keep their feelings repressed.
It's alright if you can get past the 1984 retelling, with some Wizard of Oz thrown in.
It did make me appreciate The Matrix/Reloaded all the more for the fighting scenes. Why?
Because with The Wachowski Bros, they made the actors train for months so they can have long fluid scenes of combat, you can tell the actors know their chops and are actually doing it.
This Gun-Kata thing, is all in the editing.
There's even a lobby scene. With lots of cutting away in fights.
It's quite cool and looks good, but it pales in comparison to The Matrix fight scenes. Nothing to do with bullet-time, just the fact that the actors in Matrix are going at it in long, single takes.
Instead of aim/cut/shoot/cut/bullet hit/cut/shoot....
Not a bad film by any means, just so George Orwell.
Except for the Blade Runner shot steal with the flames reflecting in an eyeball at the end (go watch the 1st scene of Blade Runner, it's 100% an "homage").
Christian Bale is good enough, Emily Watson is wasted sitting in an interrogation room and Brian Conley is as you'd expect.
Nice face slicing-off at the end. Some nifty shoot outs, obvious references to Blade Runner/1984/Wizard of Oz/Soylent Green but not a bad film.
7/10
Feelings are outlawed in some near future after WW3. Feelings are deemed to cause wars/hate/jealousy/fear and are banned.
Instead of thought-crimes, there are "sense-crimes"
Instead of Big Brother on massive screens telling everyone that individuality is bad, "Father" is on massive screens tellinge everyone that feelings are bad and listing unauthorised items such as books, music etc etc.
Instead of the Thought-Police, there are Clerics.
But to all intents and purposes, it's 1984.
With a "brand-new martial art" called Gun-Kata. Which amounts to lots of fast cutting and shooting.
Christian Bale plays Cleric Somethingorother, traipsing around in a big black...well...Cleric's coat - reminiscent of Matrix Reloaded.
There's a plot about the resistance, a group of people that refuset to take their dosage of whatever drug everyone takes to keep their feelings repressed.
It's alright if you can get past the 1984 retelling, with some Wizard of Oz thrown in.
It did make me appreciate The Matrix/Reloaded all the more for the fighting scenes. Why?
Because with The Wachowski Bros, they made the actors train for months so they can have long fluid scenes of combat, you can tell the actors know their chops and are actually doing it.
This Gun-Kata thing, is all in the editing.
There's even a lobby scene. With lots of cutting away in fights.
It's quite cool and looks good, but it pales in comparison to The Matrix fight scenes. Nothing to do with bullet-time, just the fact that the actors in Matrix are going at it in long, single takes.
Instead of aim/cut/shoot/cut/bullet hit/cut/shoot....
Not a bad film by any means, just so George Orwell.
Except for the Blade Runner shot steal with the flames reflecting in an eyeball at the end (go watch the 1st scene of Blade Runner, it's 100% an "homage").
Christian Bale is good enough, Emily Watson is wasted sitting in an interrogation room and Brian Conley is as you'd expect.
Nice face slicing-off at the end. Some nifty shoot outs, obvious references to Blade Runner/1984/Wizard of Oz/Soylent Green but not a bad film.
7/10
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I didn't like it. Too cliched and inept in places. Flaws in the plot were numerous and the stupid media friendly soundbites nearly sent me insane.
Lil Ginge wrote:
> Mr Pínk wrote:
> *spoilers if you havent seen this film and want to*
>
> That film had the one of funniest scene's I've seen in movie
> history.
> All through the film there was a build up to a climactic battle
> between the best goodie and the best baddie, the, one move, a blink
> and off comes his face. I genuinally laughed out loud in the cinema
> for ages, infact eventually people started joining in. :D
>
>
> no sam
>
> They stared at you and it was only me who eventually joined in. Yet
> again we were scouled at and hated.
>
> Nice review - BUT THAT FILM IS SO CRAP! honestly - to see him do it
> was disgusting
I remeber seeing this. It was the night when leila's dad payed like £100 towards our meal so we decided to go and see the film.
The best part was when me Gary and Winto were taking the p!ss and acting it out at the back of the cinema. Oh yeh and the face slicing thing.
> Mr Pínk wrote:
> *spoilers if you havent seen this film and want to*
>
> That film had the one of funniest scene's I've seen in movie
> history.
> All through the film there was a build up to a climactic battle
> between the best goodie and the best baddie, the, one move, a blink
> and off comes his face. I genuinally laughed out loud in the cinema
> for ages, infact eventually people started joining in. :D
>
>
> no sam
>
> They stared at you and it was only me who eventually joined in. Yet
> again we were scouled at and hated.
>
> Nice review - BUT THAT FILM IS SO CRAP! honestly - to see him do it
> was disgusting
I remeber seeing this. It was the night when leila's dad payed like £100 towards our meal so we decided to go and see the film.
The best part was when me Gary and Winto were taking the p!ss and acting it out at the back of the cinema. Oh yeh and the face slicing thing.
Mr Pínk wrote:
> Alot of people laughed acctually.
STAND BACK FOR THE DOMESTIC
EVERYONE!
> Alot of people laughed acctually.
STAND BACK FOR THE DOMESTIC
EVERYONE!
Equilibrium is the only divx I've ever deleted for being too crap. The entire film is amateur rubbish, it just aches to be the Matrix or 1984. I don't consider the prospect of one man with two handguns being able to outshoot 20 trained riflemen with no cover by just %^&$ing standing there and waving his arms around entertaining. The twist at the end was obviously coming, the plot concept has more holes in it than Star Trek VI. The movie was bland, it was the sort of movie that I would make if I were a director.
Which is why I'm not a director.
Which is why I'm not a director.
Alot of people laughed acctually.
Was an Ok film but the major disappointment was the fact that they did not try to tackle the issue of the Cleric's child being so inured by the programme, that he was willing to shop his own sister/father. Of course they were just pretending and thus the film makers didn't have to resolve what will happen when Cleric saves the day.
What I found odd was the young lady in captivity was able to dress as she pleased (though she may have been part of the ensnarement) and had access to many, many different sets of (outlawed) clothes. I also found it cliche that all the rebels had long hair and liked art, that boredom is an emotion which everyone was suffering from and that the Cleric was able to sneak two guns into the meeting with the Bad Guy. Surely they would have strip searched him, knowing that he had turned?
Again another film that would have benefited from being an 18, with a bit more of an adult undertone.
What I found odd was the young lady in captivity was able to dress as she pleased (though she may have been part of the ensnarement) and had access to many, many different sets of (outlawed) clothes. I also found it cliche that all the rebels had long hair and liked art, that boredom is an emotion which everyone was suffering from and that the Cleric was able to sneak two guns into the meeting with the Bad Guy. Surely they would have strip searched him, knowing that he had turned?
Again another film that would have benefited from being an 18, with a bit more of an adult undertone.
Mr Pínk wrote:
> *spoilers if you havent seen this film and want to*
>
> That film had the one of funniest scene's I've seen in movie history.
> All through the film there was a build up to a climactic battle
> between the best goodie and the best baddie, the, one move, a blink
> and off comes his face. I genuinally laughed out loud in the cinema
> for ages, infact eventually people started joining in. :D
no sam
They stared at you and it was only me who eventually joined in. Yet again we were scouled at and hated.
Nice review - BUT THAT FILM IS SO CRAP! honestly - to see him do it was disgusting
> *spoilers if you havent seen this film and want to*
>
> That film had the one of funniest scene's I've seen in movie history.
> All through the film there was a build up to a climactic battle
> between the best goodie and the best baddie, the, one move, a blink
> and off comes his face. I genuinally laughed out loud in the cinema
> for ages, infact eventually people started joining in. :D
no sam
They stared at you and it was only me who eventually joined in. Yet again we were scouled at and hated.
Nice review - BUT THAT FILM IS SO CRAP! honestly - to see him do it was disgusting
MoJoJoJo wrote:
> "he'll survive Troy, being Odysseus and all. Probably survive The
> Big Empty as well, but I wouldn't bet on it."
>
> Bean is in Troy? That's it, I'm seeing it.
--
Troy promises to be better than Gladiator. It's got Sean Bean AND Chopper. Legolas gets killed, and Hamish from Braveheart gets angry. A lot.
> "he'll survive Troy, being Odysseus and all. Probably survive The
> Big Empty as well, but I wouldn't bet on it."
>
> Bean is in Troy? That's it, I'm seeing it.
--
Troy promises to be better than Gladiator. It's got Sean Bean AND Chopper. Legolas gets killed, and Hamish from Braveheart gets angry. A lot.
Mr Pínk wrote:
> *spoilers if you havent seen this film and want to*
>
> That film had the one of funniest scene's I've seen in movie history.
> All through the film there was a build up to a climactic battle
> between the best goodie and the best baddie, the, one move, a blink
> and off comes his face. I genuinally laughed out loud in the cinema
> for ages, infact eventually people started joining in. :D
Yeah, 'twas pretty funny :0D
> *spoilers if you havent seen this film and want to*
>
> That film had the one of funniest scene's I've seen in movie history.
> All through the film there was a build up to a climactic battle
> between the best goodie and the best baddie, the, one move, a blink
> and off comes his face. I genuinally laughed out loud in the cinema
> for ages, infact eventually people started joining in. :D
Yeah, 'twas pretty funny :0D
It is a clear cut hybrid of Minority Report and The Matrix with an annoying little boy throw into the mix.
Not a bad film actually.
Not a bad film actually.
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