Synopsis
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
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Cast
- Christian BaleJohn Preston
- Taye DiggsBrandt
- Angus MacfadyenDupont
- Matthew HarbourRobbie Preston
- Sean BeanErrol Partridge
- Emily WatsonMary O'Brien
- Sean PertweeFather
- Emily SiewertLisa Preston
- Maria Pia CalzonePreston's Wife
- Dominic PurcellSeamus
Recommandations
- 70
The A.V. Club
A terrific cast, stylish direction, and elegantly choreographed mayhem help make it far better than it might have been -- Though ultimately silly, Equilibrium's shopworn but stylish synthesis of ammo and ideas is surprisingly engrossing. - 63
USA Today
The martial-arts sequences take this prosaic thriller to a higher level. - 50
New York Post
The best thing about Equilibrium is its impressive look. Along with its generally fine cast and some well-choreographed fights, that goes a long way to making the movie watchable -- despite its underlying stupidity. - 50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A preachy parable stylized with a touch of John Woo bullet ballet. - 50
New York Daily News
Mostly plays like a routine thriller with a classy cast. - 50
Chicago Tribune
Not a picture that makes you think very much -- except to wonder why the studios keep making movies like this. - 40
Chicago Reader
This operates at the intellectual level of the old "Star Trek" in its limp last season, and the professed humanism is belied by the extreme violence and Nazi-chic production design (not to mention a voice-over that traces the outlawing of emotion to "the revolutionary precept of the hate crime"). - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
Super- violent, super-serious and super-stupid.
