Would be a mindless action picture, except that it has a mind. It doesn't do a lot of deep thinking, but unlike many futuristic combos of sf and f/x, it does make a statement:Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
The martial-arts sequences take this prosaic thriller to a higher level.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
Just because it's a good idea doesn't mean it's easy to do well. Screenwriter-turned-director Kurt Wimmer has a hard time keeping his actors from, well, acting a lot of the time.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Equilibrium just happens to be a really bad comic book.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Manohla Dargis
An accidental entertainment, Equilibrium is a science-fiction pastiche so lacking in originality that if you stripped away its inspirations there would be precious little left.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Dennis Lim
As this clueless, bulimic debacle madly regurgitates ideas and iconography from Lang to the brothers Wachowski, Leni Riefenstahl to L. Ron Hubbard, Ray Bradbury to Susan Faludi, it's not just Bale who has a hard time keeping a straight face.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
Equilibrium is like a remake of "1984" by someone who's seen "The Matrix" 25 times while eating Twinkies and doing methamphetamines.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Elvis Mitchell
If someone left "1984," "Fahrenheit 451," "Brave New World," "Gattaca" and the Sylvester Stallone potboilers "Judge Dredd" and "Demolition Man" out in the sun and threw the runny glop onto a movie screen, it would still be a better picture than Equilibrium, a movie that could be stupider only if it were longer.Read Full Review »
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