Equilibrium (2002) Review

Upon watching it, I bet it was not well received when it was released, and I was right. Turns out the film becomes a cult classic a few years after its release and it was not hard to see why.

With an interesting premise and a strong acting by Christian Bale, together with its early 2000s leather-punk-rock-music campyness, it was a good dystopian sci-fi film; and the only thing that bugs me was how cheesy the "gun-kata" was.

Obviously it drew inspirations from The Matrix, George Orwell's novels and also Chinese kung-fu films and everything was mixed in a blender and blended.

Still, it's Christian Bale.

6/10