Kurt Wimmer's Equilibrium is another take on the futuristic Fascist theme, and a good one at that it is. It still can't hold a candle to V for Vendetta, but then again few can. Christian Bale plays the lead as 'John Preston', and as usual he does a great job. Being an admirer of his work in general, there's no surprise there.
The world built for the movie and the story pitched throughout isn't as interesting as Bale. It's a scary idea of the future where feelings are illegal. Not only in a Minority Report way where they take out criminals before the crime, but feeling at all are illegal. An injection is used to keep people in line and general brainwashing. We've seen it all before, and the movie never offers a lot of new impulses, new directions or even new takes. It's the usual one man against the system, revolution and some Matrix-like fight sequences.
It's good and it's worth your time, but don't expect to be blown away in any way.
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