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(- 2002 -)

Original Title Equilibrium Director Kurt Wimmer Genre Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller Released 2002-10-18 MPAA Rating Rated R for violence. Rated 7.8

Plot Summary

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. Clerick John Preston (Bale) is a top ranking government agent responsible for destroying those who resist the rules. Whe he misses a dose of Prozium, a mind-altering drug that hinders emotion, Preston, who has been trained to enforce the strict laws of the new regime, suddenly becomes the only person capable of overthrowing it.

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Dominic Purcell as Seamus , Christian Bale as John Preston , Sean Bean as Partridge , Christian Kahrmann as Officer in Charge , John Keogh as Chemist , Sean Pertwee as Father , William Fichtner as Jurgen , Angus MacFadyen as Dupont , David Barrash as Evidentiary Storage Officer , Dirk Martens as Gate Guard , Taye Diggs as Brandt , Matthew Harbour as Robbie Preston , Maria Pia Calzone as Preston's Wife , Emily Siewert as Lisa Preston , Emily Watson as Mary O'Brien

IMDB User Comments

Slick re-tooling of Fahrenheit 451 While this film may be under writer/director Kurt Wimmer's credit, this work owes more than a little credit to the Bradbury classic, because this film has a lot in common while also not having much in common. Christian Bale, just fantastic as always (he gave the 2nd best performance last year for American Psycho), plays a cop type of guy in a zombified nation where the satirical points in 451 are expressed as thought is forbidden and controlled and anyone else who goes against it is killed. He follows orders as always, until he meets a woman, played by Emily Watson, who in a way changes his thinking and with that starts to grow emotion. Sounds like possibly a cheap rip off, but the film does cool touches in the story and structure to make it nice and as Bale goes through his change, we are sucked in. But in case some might loose they're attention from this, the film has awesomely packed action sequences involving guns, swords, etc. Only thing that could use some touching up is the visual effects, but still worth seeing. A-

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