Movie Review: Equilibrium
Equilibrium is the first movie Kurt Wimmer (AKA "The Wimmer"!) has both written and directed (he previously co-wrote gems like Sphere and some other films.)
The catchphrase on my fathers dodgy arsed pirate versions sleeve says "Forget the Matrix! This movie will blow you away!" This is an exaggeration, but it is still a fantastic crap-up of a film.
Christian Bale plays some dude called Preston, who is a 'Cleric', the last bastion of defense and the greatest warriors of a futuristic regime that has solved all of humanities problems by getting everyone in the world addicted to an overclocked version of Prozak that seemingly prevents anyone from having any 'feelings'. How gay.
It's a pretty b-grade film in many ways, but that's easily solved for Mr.Wimmer by the script. No-one has any feelings, so they don't need anyone who can actually act. Plus it's set in the future, so heaps of shit can be done with CG, saving money on things like sets, costumes, vehicles, weapons, actors and cameras.
Redeeming features? The film has style, and some cool gun related activity in it. The Clerics wear awesome outfits that remind me of the Hellsing anime series and the weird manga about the priests with massive handguns and foxy nuns with big eyes (Stomp can tell you what it's called.) Best of all Wimmer has implemented "Gun Kata" which is a martial art designed for the use of firearms. Apparently through calculating optimum firing arcs, targeting accuracy when facing mulitple foes and shit like that they've designed an almost authentic gun-fu. It rocks pretty hard in the film, especially when they bring out shotguns. Very John Woo.
Oh yeah, they use swords too, but no-one bleeds in the future.
Wimmers latest effort, Ultraviolet , is some kind of vamipre-esque sci-fi film has Milla Jovovich in it and they have reportedly taken "Gun Kata" to new levels with authentic kung-fu shit in it, like it's almost real. Cool.
Skaffens rating: Better than shopping with your Mum for 6 days straight in the Middle East. Rent or download it now, enjoy with beer and idiot mates.
The catchphrase on my fathers dodgy arsed pirate versions sleeve says "Forget the Matrix! This movie will blow you away!" This is an exaggeration, but it is still a fantastic crap-up of a film.
Christian Bale plays some dude called Preston, who is a 'Cleric', the last bastion of defense and the greatest warriors of a futuristic regime that has solved all of humanities problems by getting everyone in the world addicted to an overclocked version of Prozak that seemingly prevents anyone from having any 'feelings'. How gay.
It's a pretty b-grade film in many ways, but that's easily solved for Mr.Wimmer by the script. No-one has any feelings, so they don't need anyone who can actually act. Plus it's set in the future, so heaps of shit can be done with CG, saving money on things like sets, costumes, vehicles, weapons, actors and cameras.
Redeeming features? The film has style, and some cool gun related activity in it. The Clerics wear awesome outfits that remind me of the Hellsing anime series and the weird manga about the priests with massive handguns and foxy nuns with big eyes (Stomp can tell you what it's called.) Best of all Wimmer has implemented "Gun Kata" which is a martial art designed for the use of firearms. Apparently through calculating optimum firing arcs, targeting accuracy when facing mulitple foes and shit like that they've designed an almost authentic gun-fu. It rocks pretty hard in the film, especially when they bring out shotguns. Very John Woo.
Oh yeah, they use swords too, but no-one bleeds in the future.
Wimmers latest effort, Ultraviolet , is some kind of vamipre-esque sci-fi film has Milla Jovovich in it and they have reportedly taken "Gun Kata" to new levels with authentic kung-fu shit in it, like it's almost real. Cool.
Skaffens rating: Better than shopping with your Mum for 6 days straight in the Middle East. Rent or download it now, enjoy with beer and idiot mates.
posted by skaffen at 7/06/2005 08:56:00 pm
2 Comments:
does this mean that you worked out how to print screen on your lappies DVD player?
sweet.
that looks kind of interesting actually, I'll see if it's up for download so I can nad it & never get around to watching it.
I watched it and actually found it to be OK but a bit cheesy. The action sequences got a bit dorky real quick. The other film sounds good. Christian Bale is particularly wooden in Equilibrium, maybe he had a really good emotion-supressant dealer.
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