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33 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 22 Critics What's this?

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8.3 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 169 Ratings

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  • Starring: Christian Bale, Emily Watson, Sean Bean, Taye Diggs
  • Summary: In a future society, citizens are prevented from expressing emotions and are controlled by militaristic police with the enforced use of a dehumanizing drug.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 22
  3. Negative: 10 out of 22
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    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:
  2. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Gregory Weinkauf
    60
    Equilibrium improves as it rolls along -- either that or, ironically, it wears down the senses until the viewer succumbs.
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    38
    Equilibrium just happens to be a really bad comic book.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 98 out of 108
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 108
  3. Negative: 10 out of 108
  1. MarkusW
    10
    Once of my alltime favourite movies. Drama and Action could go together before the new BSG. But it´s hardly surprising that a movie warning of "soft totalitarianism" isn´t well recieved the media. Make a movie about a clicheed fascist gouvernement seizing power using anti-terror as an excuse and they love you. But a movie talking about how the concept of hate-crimes will lead to policing of thought and you are a heretic.… Expand
    • 4 of 5 users said yes
  2. JohnS.
    9
    This was one of the best action movies I've ever seen! It has some of the feel of The Matrix but the action was more believable. Christian Bale was AWESOME! The story was good, a little slow at times but good. It had depth and heart which you don't see much in action these days.… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. BobB
    1
    Wow, Roger EBERT gave it a good review? Roger Ebert is also the premier elevator of pop garbage movies to pseudo-intellectual status. This movie is a steaming pile of cultural backwash re-digested by the hackneyed screenplay writer whose only major accomplishment was to insert every distopian cliche ever written since the 19th century. This movie pretends to think while not having a single original thought. It also insults the audience with its excruciatingly obvious flogging of the already overtread plot points. This society destroys art? Well, how can stupid moviegoer me possibly understand how awful it is to burn paintings? OH NOEZ the Mona Lisa, now I KNOW this is a big deal, because anything less than the Mona Lisa being destroyed and my phillistine brain will just want to smear dung and shout at the screen, but since you showed me the MOST famous painting IN THE WORLD, NOW I am able to understand it. Wouldn't they have found the Mona Lisa a long time ago? Wouldn't the only art left be a bit more obscure so they'd miss it? Does Sean Bean HAVE to be reading Yates? Nuff said.… Expand
    • 1 of 5 users said yes

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