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VIDEO RELEASE
Aug 19, 2003 (DVD)
NUMBERS
Box Office: $1,050,459
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CONSENSUS
Equilibrium is a reheated mishmash of other sci-fi movies.
CAST & CREW
Christian Bale, Sean Bean, Taye Diggs
Directed by Kurt Wimmer
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SYNOPSIS
In a futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing emotions: books, art and music are strictly forbidden and feeling is a crime punishable by death. more...
MPAA RATING
R, violence
RUNTIME
1 hour, 47 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Dec 6, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Dimension Films
GENRE
Science-Fiction/Fantasy, Drugs, Fantasy, War, Music
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Equilibrium Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "Post 9/11 the philosophical message of “Personal Freedom First” might not be as palatable as intended."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
 "Cold, Sterile And Lacking Any Color Or Warmth."
-- Boo Allen, DENTON RECORD CHRONICLE (TX)
"... a preachy parable stylized with a touch of John Woo bullet ballet."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"A dull, somnambulant exercise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by frequent outbursts of violence and noise."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"What you would end up with if you took Orwell, Bradbury, Kafka, George Lucas and the Wachowski Brothers and threw them into a blender. But that's just the problem with it - the director hasn't added enough of his own ingredients."
-- Larry Carroll, COUNTINGDOWN.COM
"First, for a movie that tries to be smart, it’s kinda dumb. And second, what’s with all the shooting?"
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Equilibrium is what George Orwell might have imagined had today's mood-altering drug therapy been envisioned by chemists in 1949."
-- Michael Drakulich, STAR NEWSPAPERS (CHICAGO, IL)
"It's hard not to feel you've just watched a feature-length video game with some really heavy back story."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"A seriously bad film with seriously warped logic by writer-director Kurt Wimmer at the screenplay level."
-- David Grove, FILM THREAT
"Superb production values & Christian Bale's charisma make up for a derivative plot."
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
"An entertaining but unspectacular film. Pretty goofy at times - but the slick and gleefully self-indulgent violence will not disappoint the action fan."
-- Brian Mckay, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"Silly stuff, all mixed up together like a term paper from a kid who can't quite distinguish one sci-fi work from another."
-- Roger Moore, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"Fails as a dystopian movie, as a retooling of Fahrenheit 451, and even as a rip-off of The Matrix."
-- Eugene Novikov, FILM BLATHER
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"...a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"It's the funniest American comedy since Graffiti Bridge."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"The premise is overshadowed by the uberviolence of the Clericks as this becomes just another kung-fu sci-fi movie with silly action sequences."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"The notion of deleting emotion from people, even in an advanced Prozac Nation, is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed Equilibrium becomes a concept doofus."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"Equlibrium could pass for a thirteen-year-old's book report on the totalitarian themes of 1984 and Farenheit 451."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"The self-serious Equilibrium makes its point too well; a movie, like life, isn't much fun without the highs and lows."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"`Matrix'-style massacres erupt throughout...but the movie has a tougher time balancing its violence with Kafka-inspired philosophy."
-- Josh Larsen, SUN PUBLICATIONS (CHICAGO, IL)
"There's not a fresh idea at the core of this tale."
-- Mervius, FANTASTICA DAILY
"It's at once laughable and compulsively watchable, in its committed dumbness."
-- David Noh, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"Flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool, but they can't distract from the flawed support structure holding Equilibrium up."
-- Sean O'Connell, FILMCRITIC.COM
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ROTTEN 33%
Avg. Rating: 4.7/10 |
"It's a long way from Orwell's dark, intelligent warning cry [1984] to the empty stud knockabout of Equilibrium, and what once was conviction is now affectation."
-- Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE
"A science-fiction pastiche so lacking in originality that if you stripped away its inspirations there would be precious little left."
-- Manohla Dargis, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"What it lacks in originality it makes up for in intelligence and B-grade stylishness."
-- Gary Dowell, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"It doesn't do a lot of deep thinking, but unlike many futuristic combos of sf and f/x, it does make a statement: Freedom of opinion is a threat to totalitarian systems."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Illiterate, often inert sci-fi action thriller."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"Giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is part of the fun. But the talented cast alone will keep you watching, as will the fight scenes."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"An unsophisticated sci-fi drama that takes itself all too seriously."
-- Dennis Harvey, VARIETY
"Borrows from so many literary and cinematic sources that this future world feels absolutely deja vu."
-- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Equilibrium the movie, as opposed to the manifesto, is really, really stupid."
-- Stephen Hunter, WASHINGTON POST
"It's super- violent, super-serious and super-stupid."
-- Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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"What a dumb, fun, curiously adolescent movie this is."
-- Nev Pierce, BBCI FILMS
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Equilibrium" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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