For some reason this movie went straight to video. It has to be one of the best if not the best straight to video movies I have ever seen. The movie is a combination of "Farenheit 451" and the matrix. It is very cool. In this world emotions are banned and the punishment for showing emotions can be enforced to the extreme. Christian Bale plays one of the enforcers for the government and he sees the error of his ways and becomes a fighter for the rights of people to have emotions. Good action film with guns, swords and good/innovative fight scenes

Just caught this on pay tv over the weekend, and I have to say, it could of been so much better. It just seemed slow, and needed to give a bit more development into the reasons why certain things were being banned.

But for anyone wanting a bit of sci-fi future film viewing, it is a cross between 1984 and Matrix.

interesting concept, and some awesome fight/gun sequences, and Bale was pretty good.

I just wanted more from it. More depth, or a slightly faster storyline. Or maybe it was just everything being so drab and dull that was putting me off. You are better off just watching Psycho or batman I think. (via amazon)

OMG -- Saw this - this morning. Christian Bale has never been sexier.... A broad science fiction thriller in a classic vein, Equilibrium takes a respectable stab at a Fahrenheit 451-like cautionary fable. The story finds Earth's post-World War III humankind in a state of severe emotional repression: If no one feels anything, no one will be inspired by dark passions to attack their neighbors. Writer-director Kurt Wimmer's monochromatic, Metropolis-influenced cityscape provides an excellent backdrop to the heavy-handed mission of John Preston (Christian Bale), a top cop who busts "sense offenders" and crushes sentimental, sensual, and artistic relics from a bygone era. Predictably, Preston becomes intrigued by his victims and that which they die to cherish; he stops taking his mandatory, mood-flattening drug and is even aroused by a doomed prisoner (Emily Watson). Wimmer's wrongheaded martial arts/dueling guns motif is sheer silliness (a battle over a puppy doesn't help), but Equilibrium should be seen for Bale's moving performance as a man shocked back to human feeling.

This is a great Matrix caliber movie starring Christian Bale. Its set in this future fascist regime where emotions are prohibited. Bale is a law enforcement agent who begins to question the government. Amazing fight scenes! Watch it, rent it, own it. (via Amazon)

1984 meets The Matrix. Such an amazing movie.

I used to ask candidates what their favorite movie was and if they'd ever heard of Equilibrium. An answer in the positive gave them a slight favor in my book. An incredible movie that is like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and the Hong Kong martial arts all rolled into one.

The fighting style, Gun Kata, stands apart from all the other movies of the time which were all obsessed with modeling themselves after "The Matrix."

Watch this movie and prepare for your mind to be blown. But whatever you do, don't watch Ultraviolet which is this director's follow-up which was supposed to be new and improved but is actually quite lame.