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Christian Bale

Taye Diggs

Angus Macfadyen

Matthew Harbour

Sean Bean

Emily Watson

Sean Pertwee

Emily Siewert

Maria Pia Calzone

Dominic Purcell

William Fichtner

David Hemmings

David Barrash

Christian Kahrmann

John Keogh

Dirk Martens

Florian Fitz

Francesco Cabras

Brian Conley

Anatole Taubman

Kurt Wimmer

Sally Eccleston

Brian W. Cook

Joe Rangel

Keith Splinter Davis

Dieter Stempnierwsky

Sebastian Meuschel

Iris Müller

Jamie Hardt

Brian Ruberg

Michael Degtjarewsky

Imke Sommerkamp

Ryan Juggler

Mike Luft

Frank Kruse

Jan Brun

Ralf Tillmann

Ute Bergk

Udo Lüttich

Byron Brisco

Lane Burch

Kevin Hyman

Rocco Russo

Joseph Conenna

Dieter Bähr

Christian Scheibe

Kenny Lam

Michael Hatzer

Tomas Jester

Rob 'Sluggo' Boyce

Stephan O. Gessler

Glenn König

Anna Schmigalla

Howard Baral

Shawn Kennelly

Jim Vickers

Lucas Foster

Jeanne McCarthy

Joseph A. Porro

Juel Bestrop

Klaus Badelt

Jan de Bont

Dion Beebe

Hasso von Hugo

Justin Warburton-Brown

Byron Miller

William Yeh

Paul J. Hayes

Carolin Spill

Björn Rehbein

Erin May

Stefano Maria Mioni

Marco Giacalone

Rodney Montague

David Sosalla

Ronald Schwarz

Reinhard Stöckl

Tom Rolf

Mauro Tamagnini

Roxy Konrad

Wolf Kroeger

Maureen O'Connor

William Jacobs

Tim McGovern

Gianmaria Majorana

Richie Nieto

Stephan Schröter

Daniel Mattig

Martin Lopez

Anne Kuljian

Matthew Dettmann

Greg ten Bosch

Peter Taylor

Tanja Drewitz

Annette Borgmann

Lucinda Syson

Barbara Jäger

Mark Stehli

Pamela Alch

Jeffrey Perkins

Stephen Hunter Flick

Peter Brown

Stephanie Lowry

Jon Mete

Samuel Lehmer

Dana Gustafson

Kim Lavery

Vicki Hiatt

Stella D'Onofrio

Richard Blanshard

Gary A. Hecker

Edward Steidele

Joe Gareri

Daniele Massaccesi

Douglas Kunin

Nina Hess

Set in an Orwellian Dystopian future after a nasty world war 3 in the early part of the 21st century. The population are forced to take drugs that suppress their emotions. You see emotions causes conflict and war.

However some people exhibit emotions by not taking the medicine. They want to listen to music, experience their senses by seeing artwork, read books or having pets.

These people are exterminated by clerics, an elite hit squad. Christian Bale is the best of the clerics but once he stops taking his medicine, he feels for the first time and gets into contact with a resistance group to overthrow the leader.

Filmed in Berlin, Equilibrium comes across like an updated version of Fahrenheit 451 but feels too much like a knockoff of The Matrix with a rather a sterile narrative at the beginning which made it rather uninvolving.

Bale's behaviour is so odd once he stops taking the drugs, he should just had been caught and shot.

Gimly

So there's a pretty decent chance that _Equilibrium_ doesn't have an original bone in its entire makeup, but I still just **love **it.

_Final rating:★★★★ - Very strong appeal. A personal favourite._

Mankind united with infinitely greater purpose in pursuit of war than he ever did in pursuit of peace.

Equilibrium is written and directed by Kurt Wimmer and stars Christian Bale, Taye Diggs, Emily Watson and Angus Macfadyen. Bale plays John Preston, an enforcement Cleric in Libria, a dystopian future where forms of emotional expression are deemed illegal. All citizens of Libria are required to inject drugs (known as Prozium) to suppress emotions. However, Preston misses one of his doses and starts to become emotionally conflicted about the world he now lives in.

Welcome to a dystopian world where art is banned, music destroyed and basic emotions illegal. A world where Christian Bale looks cool in long black coats and "Gun-Kata" martial artistry is the order of the day. It's impossible to write a review for Equilibrium without mentioning the film it so dearly wants to be, "The Matrix". That it's not nearly as good as that film in terms of story and action is no reason to do it down. What is not in doubt is that the story here is indeed weak, very much so - in fact it appears that Wimmer has merely cribbed elements from notable moments of sci-fi morality works before it - and then cloaked it in a whirling big bang montage of attention grabbing set pieces. But honestly, those set pieces are alone worth spending time with this movie for.

It's standard sci-fi shenanigans for the most part. We have the ruling body of the country, all very fascist and with a badge that looks unsurprisingly Swastika like. A cop character finding a conscience and turning into a rebel on the loose. The underground resistance. And of course the twist ending as the reveal, and plot strands, come together for one final (brilliant) bout of carnage. So yes, it's rammed full of clichés. But it is exciting energised fun. Stylish fun, in fact. Even if at the core it's awash with unimaginative writing. Brain checked at the door for this one then, enjoy. 8/10

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