lol, i thought he was gonna have to fight through the entire city of regime enforcers to get to the villain who barricaded in his citadel or something, but dude was right down the hallway 😂
@@elroma7712 Have to agree. A 2nd movie wouldn't be able to carry the weight from the first, and if you don't have Bale in it might as well burn the script.
My buddy and I saw this on the shelves for rent when it first came out. On the back it had a review that said, “Forget the Matrix”. We were outraged, but by god it was so good we almost forgot the matrix.
Preston didn't kill the last guy in the first room because he was 'feeling' and noticed that by how he got startled when Preston turned his eyes on him.
I was shocked to see this movie the first time. A new type of S.F. and very stunning visual effects and plots, the gun fight scenes were masterpieces and brilliant. I believe this movie set the start of new S.F. special effects and choreo.
Really? I always though the gun fights (gun kata) was lame and took me out of an otherwise decent dystopian sci fi concept. Could've done without the tacky action sequences.
I mean this is still one of my favourite movies of all time however this scene always made me roll my eyes a little. Like I get he is insane with guns and combat but they were all in a straight corridor hallway, no way those movements would have save him in real life. I just wish they had coreographed some more realistic behind cover and maybe once in a while when he gets flanked or surrounded use that Gung-fu. Also I wanted a more epic sword fight, kind of funny how his nemesis was super confident and got cut down so fast. I wanted to see him use katana more but the last scene when they do their gun dance thing again most was cool until they start spinning around lol dancing but it is still a cool premise, or idea on gun combat.
I agree with you!! Though I think the sword fight being ended immediately is much more important and impressive. Showing 100% focus and learning from the past. Real sword fights were generally over this fast as well
If I remember correctly, this movie was over shadowed by The Matrix movie since both came out around the same time. Such a good movie this was. If only it was released before or after the Matrix, we could have possibly gotten a sequel or at least made more money. Still such a classsic
@LCTesla yeah, you're are correct, then the Matrix 2 came out the following year. I wonder if a sequel was ever going to happen or if the movie didn't make enough money. I haven't researched it so I can't say for sure
I can deal with the "I've clearly never even seen a real fire arm, much less held and shot one" screen writing. I absolutely can not abide the 1999-2001 era Sci Fi noise "soundtrack". It dates the movie so terribly. I remember watching this shortly after it came out. First time I'd seen or heard of Christian Bale (Cause I didn't realize he is the kid in Empire of the Sun).
I saw this back when I was a kid, and even then I remember thinking: "wait, why didn't they check him and take his hidden guns away before all this?" But then he started shooting and I was like HELL YA FUCKEM UP
I never noticed, but the magazines change all the time...some times they have the coutnerweights and sometimes they don't both before and after reloading with the ones he threw on the floor.
Fun fact: Gen Urobuchi of Psycho-Pass and Tokyo Ghoul fame is a fan of this movie and published a visual novel taking place in the film's setting called "Jouka no Monshou".
If you are one of the 10 sentries at the back of the room, it is impossible to miss him, so in the first 10 seconds he is busy with the 10 firsts, he would get a hundred bulkets, those missing not included. Matrix did it slightly better because of the presence of pillars. Seems cool anyway
I get your point! According to the logic of the movie the practicioners of "Gun Kata" move so incredibly fast that they are impossible to hit. This is explained at the very beginning of the film. That's one of the reasons the Clerics are so feared among the resistance. For the audience everything is "slowed down" just like in Matrix (where it suggests that Neo and Trinity are speeding through the hallway with manipulation of the Matrix code).
@@NathanieI87 It's not that they move fast, but that they place themselves in the statistically least likely positions for their adversaries to shoot. They then fire into the statistically most likely places for their adversaries to be positioned, maximizing both the chance for survival and the chance to kill.
It doesn't make a lot of sense. But it's a well shot, well choreographed (at least for Preston), well executed masterpiece of an action set piece IMHO. :D
1:28 He'll be needing a clean pair of trousers, don't you think? I don't mind the trope of unbeatable, unkillable, unstoppable and it looks magnificent, but even my inner child thinks this breaks suspension of disbelief.
So what happened during that bit where he stood in one place and reloaded while presumably at least 10 people were aiming at him with automatic assault rifles and shooting at him?
0:00 _"... you really should learn to knock ..."_ Yeah. The only door I knock on is heaven's door. And I was knocking on that door for fkg years. I was knocking on that door too much, already.
I could only imagine how different this fight would have gone had the henchman not been wear motorcycle helmets... 🤦♂️ I'm really glad Hollywood has gotten away from that... same thing happened in RE Apocalypse.
a side effect of not having war is that you can't be ready for it it's called peace sickness the secret police were packing the same fire power no snipers no flash grenades nothing just rifles. I think if they threw a couple frag or flash grenades, they would have held out longer against Preston that's assuming they can pull the pins out before he shoots them.
@@johnmcdonald587 I think its the Beretta 93R. But I could be wrong since the 93R has a select mode for either singe-fire or 3-round burst but these seem to be capable of firing full auto
@@johnmcdonald587 ahh. My mistake then. Apologies. I though they would have an easier time using the rafficka given it already has a burst fire mechanism
@@ayanaries88 The guns appear to be firing on full-auto and not in burst-mode. I agree that 3-round capability may be better in the story the fact remains they are 92FS's. There's a lot of manipulation of reality in the film. Sort of like the Pulse Rifle controversey in the 'Alien's' film.
A poor man's Matrix, but Bale is dressed well. Glad to see that even Christian needs to grab a paycheck now and then. Not everything can be Shakespeare...
I think my favorite part of this movie is the BS explanation of how gun kata works. Something along the lines of the position of enemies and the trajectories of their shots being statistically predictable. It is total nonsense that still perfectly fits this world in a way that doesn't feel like nonsense.
The thing is you can have something completely stupid in a film, let's say eating cheese can cure disease.As long as the film sticks to it's rules, it's works. It is a film at the end of the day, it doesn't have to hold itself to real life rigidly. In this world Gun kata is explained and it works to how it's shown, so honestly it's fine.
@@Littletime839 True. But they also had every reason to think he was being cooperative and didn't want to let him know the jig was up. They asked him for his weapons and the sword was the only thing he gave them. They even kind of gloat a little bit afterward when they ask him the question after hooking him up to a polygraph, "What's the best way to get a weapon away from a Gramaton Cleric? You ask him for it." Besides that, it's kind of implied that Preston is somewhat special even for a Gramaton Cleric. It's entirely possible they went with the thought process of, "Who cares if he has a hidden weapon? There's no way he's making it through a hallway with 100 armed guards."
Hi everyone! What grade (out of 10) would you give this video?
Pres10/10
👍👍👍👍👍
Zero, nada niente, null.
Are negative numbers an option? This is so dumb on so many levels it amazes me that there are enough 10 year old boys to make this viable.
Definitely 10 out of 10! 👍👍 Gotta think of it as a live anime or Manga. The story concept, gun-play, and effects were ahead of their time.
lol, i thought he was gonna have to fight through the entire city of regime enforcers to get to the villain who barricaded in his citadel or something, but dude was right down the hallway 😂
I was wondering how did he know where he'd be but then again there was this line of black clad motorcyclists with guns pointing the way.
The Gunkata singlehandedly created the most iconic gun-fu action sequence in history. This movie really needs a sequel.
Pure awesomeness.
Nah it's good as it is.
@@elroma7712
Have to agree. A 2nd movie wouldn't be able to carry the weight from the first, and if you don't have Bale in it might as well burn the script.
My buddy and I saw this on the shelves for rent when it first came out. On the back it had a review that said, “Forget the Matrix”. We were outraged, but by god it was so good we almost forgot the matrix.
No you didn't bro. You really didn't.
Literally think of the Catwoman movie with the amount of god damn cuts in this scene. It's ridiculous in the worst way possible.
Im glad Equilibrium is getting more attention
Preston didn't kill the last guy in the first room because he was 'feeling' and noticed that by how he got startled when Preston turned his eyes on him.
When you lock eyes with another man and know you both got the feelz 😍
BrunoVinicius-ix8wt it is true and it is a prohibited emotion.
Such an underrated movie
I was shocked to see this movie the first time. A new type of S.F. and very stunning visual effects and plots, the gun fight scenes were masterpieces and brilliant. I believe this movie set the start of new S.F. special effects and choreo.
Really? I always though the gun fights (gun kata) was lame and took me out of an otherwise decent dystopian sci fi concept. Could've done without the tacky action sequences.
Seriously, it's low rent Matrix and so derivative they're probably lucky not to get their asses sued off.
The good ole days when you ordered Netflix dvds through the mail 😂😂😂.
This movie was really good
Let’s see Paul Allen’s hallway fight
😂😂😂
I mean this is still one of my favourite movies of all time however this scene always made me roll my eyes a little. Like I get he is insane with guns and combat but they were all in a straight corridor hallway, no way those movements would have save him in real life. I just wish they had coreographed some more realistic behind cover and maybe once in a while when he gets flanked or surrounded use that Gung-fu. Also I wanted a more epic sword fight, kind of funny how his nemesis was super confident and got cut down so fast. I wanted to see him use katana more but the last scene when they do their gun dance thing again most was cool until they start spinning around lol dancing but it is still a cool premise, or idea on gun combat.
Yeah he would have been dead 4 steps into the hallway.
I agree with you!! Though I think the sword fight being ended immediately is much more important and impressive. Showing 100% focus and learning from the past. Real sword fights were generally over this fast as well
@@MrJturner74 😂
Who cares about "real life", get your realism out of here. This stuff is fun because it can't be done in real life.
That's the thing, this isn't real life. It's a movie, lol
The best B rated sci fi action flick
Let's be honest, this is actual top tier, it's just dressed up as second tier by a modest budget. And i live it all the more for that 😊
How is this is a B-Flick, explain.
"How many rounds do those magazines hold?"
"Yes"
Bale has never played a bad character ever.
AND he's goddamn gorgeous.
The man lucked out in life.
They really lined up nicely there LOL. This movie was awesome!
I'll never understand how they didn't cast Michael Scarn for this. He was born to play this role.
I love his big smile when the man at the desk said "you really should learn to knock".
My grandfather fought in WW1, he told me trench warfare was just like that!
fun fact this is footage of your grandfather
That black dude thought he could win the sword fight in the end he was just baited and didn't even last 3 seconds LOL
1:17 Somehow his sleeves have swollen to let guns to fall out then shrunk again in the next scene 😂
If I remember correctly, this movie was over shadowed by The Matrix movie since both came out around the same time.
Such a good movie this was. If only it was released before or after the Matrix, we could have possibly gotten a sequel or at least made more money. Still such a classsic
this came out 3 (and a half) years after Matrix. heavily inspired by it. couldn't have existed without the Matrix.
@LCTesla yeah, you're are correct, then the Matrix 2 came out the following year. I wonder if a sequel was ever going to happen or if the movie didn't make enough money. I haven't researched it so I can't say for sure
Very underrated movie... But maybe it is a disguised blessing: Hollywood won't try to make a reboot/franchise with it.
First time I heard him say "I'm coming" before shooting the monitor, all I could think was "The Ice Cream Man cometh".
Christian Bale looks like he's fresh out of an 80's synth-pop band.
How I miss Gun Kata lol
Imagine being so uncool and joyless that you have to nitpick this scene for being unrealistic, couldn't be me!
I can deal with the "I've clearly never even seen a real fire arm, much less held and shot one" screen writing.
I absolutely can not abide the 1999-2001 era Sci Fi noise "soundtrack".
It dates the movie so terribly. I remember watching this shortly after it came out. First time I'd seen or heard of Christian Bale (Cause I didn't realize he is the kid in Empire of the Sun).
@@slyguythreeonetwonine3172 You're the guy he's talking about.
Feels like they took it right from 1999 matrix
I saw this back when I was a kid, and even then I remember thinking: "wait, why didn't they check him and take his hidden guns away before all this?" But then he started shooting and I was like HELL YA FUCKEM UP
The Father of John Wick
The wrath of a man who just needs to return some video tapes
I can only imagine this is how Christian Bale wakes up every morning. Literally fighting his way to the coffee pot.
I never noticed, but the magazines change all the time...some times they have the coutnerweights and sometimes they don't both before and after reloading with the ones he threw on the floor.
Fun fact: Gen Urobuchi of Psycho-Pass and Tokyo Ghoul fame is a fan of this movie and published a visual novel taking place in the film's setting called "Jouka no Monshou".
If you are one of the 10 sentries at the back of the room, it is impossible to miss him, so in the first 10 seconds he is busy with the 10 firsts, he would get a hundred bulkets, those missing not included. Matrix did it slightly better because of the presence of pillars. Seems cool anyway
Bulkets
Yes, nice pictures, but not really cool.
I get your point! According to the logic of the movie the practicioners of "Gun Kata" move so incredibly fast that they are impossible to hit. This is explained at the very beginning of the film. That's one of the reasons the Clerics are so feared among the resistance. For the audience everything is "slowed down" just like in Matrix (where it suggests that Neo and Trinity are speeding through the hallway with manipulation of the Matrix code).
@@NathanieI87 It's not that they move fast, but that they place themselves in the statistically least likely positions for their adversaries to shoot. They then fire into the statistically most likely places for their adversaries to be positioned, maximizing both the chance for survival and the chance to kill.
@@JarrodFrates yeah now that you mention it. That's the way it was. I have to watch it again. It's been 10 years since I've watched it
This movie was really ahead of it's time. John Wich before John Wick.
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This boy got massive sleeves to house those guns.
They used imperial stormtroopers in black
It doesn't make a lot of sense. But it's a well shot, well choreographed (at least for Preston), well executed masterpiece of an action set piece IMHO. :D
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من لا يخسر لا يربح!😏
فالربح دائما يكون مقابل الخسارة!😏
السيستم :
و ماذا خسرت أنت؟👀
إيكيليبريوم :
حبي لنفسي!😏👻😁
0:24 - So the real villain is… RENATO POZZETTO!
1:28 He'll be needing a clean pair of trousers, don't you think?
I don't mind the trope of unbeatable, unkillable, unstoppable and it looks magnificent, but even my inner child thinks this breaks suspension of disbelief.
You're just old, plain and simple
This was gunfoo before gunfoo
So what happened during that bit where he stood in one place and reloaded while presumably at least 10 people were aiming at him with automatic assault rifles and shooting at him?
This was the OG gun fu
OOOOHHHHHh so that's where RAW DATA vr game got the archetype for Bishop the gun fu master.
Glad they had those biker helmets on to protect them from the bullets.
why would any of those nameless gools miss? it's hilarious.
Plot armour
You took the best part 😢
Gives them Tamil film action flicks a run for their money!
0:00
_"... you really should learn to knock ..."_
Yeah.
The only door I knock on
is heaven's door.
And I was knocking on that door
for fkg years.
I was knocking on that door too much,
already.
"Whoa...I know gun-fu"
Fun fact: the Cleric pistols are just modified Berretas with asthetics.
Dear God I do not miss those 1999-2001 era Sci Fi noise Soundtracks.
Lol, look close at 1:41 you can see wires on the gun magazines.
1:24 I'm Coming 🗿
One of my favorite movies.
I could only imagine how different this fight would have gone had the henchman not been wear motorcycle helmets... 🤦♂️ I'm really glad Hollywood has gotten away from that... same thing happened in RE Apocalypse.
The only reason I found out about this movie was because of the Deadpool video game 😂
my COD lobby with a hacker be like
1:10 😟 oh
1:12 😱 *S H I T*
Classic scene. Easy to remember after all this time too
0:12 Bruce Wayne and Alfred
Not trying to discredit bros shooting ability but there's no way most of the guards weren't just half asleep before he came out of nowhere 👀
If guns had no recoil and all the helmet visors were just opaque black plastic this is plausible.
1:24
a side effect of not having war is that you can't be ready for it it's called peace sickness the secret police were packing the same fire power no snipers no flash grenades nothing just rifles. I think if they threw a couple frag or flash grenades, they would have held out longer against Preston that's assuming they can pull the pins out before he shoots them.
Gun-fu is neat
What kind of the pistols that he used? That's insane
They were heavily modified Beretta 92FS's.
@@johnmcdonald587 I think its the Beretta 93R. But I could be wrong since the 93R has a select mode for either singe-fire or 3-round burst but these seem to be capable of firing full auto
@@ayanaries88 They don't have the 93R slide. They are 92FS's.
@@johnmcdonald587 ahh. My mistake then. Apologies. I though they would have an easier time using the rafficka given it already has a burst fire mechanism
@@ayanaries88 The guns appear to be firing on full-auto and not in burst-mode. I agree that 3-round capability may be better in the story the fact remains they are 92FS's. There's a lot of manipulation of reality in the film. Sort of like the Pulse Rifle controversey in the 'Alien's' film.
”No, not without incidence”
You’ve just woken the american psycho
The gun fighting looks kind of dumb just shown in a clip. However when you see it in the context of the rest of the movie its very well done.
A poor man's Matrix, but Bale is dressed well. Glad to see that even Christian needs to grab a paycheck now and then. Not everything can be Shakespeare...
Please this movie is way better than the matrix
@@The-wrench-ki2uw Wrong. Choreography is poor. None of these fights make any sense not even the gun kata.
The thumbnail remind me of Max Payne for some reason
i thought this movie was so cool when i was 12
How it feels to chew 5 Gum
I’m coming.
The Giver... with guns
Thomas Wayne
I'm coming.
Imagine you can do this in Apex Legends.
Interesting I actually thought this was the worst fight in the movie
I think my favorite part of this movie is the BS explanation of how gun kata works. Something along the lines of the position of enemies and the trajectories of their shots being statistically predictable. It is total nonsense that still perfectly fits this world in a way that doesn't feel like nonsense.
The thing is you can have something completely stupid in a film, let's say eating cheese can cure disease.As long as the film sticks to it's rules, it's works. It is a film at the end of the day, it doesn't have to hold itself to real life rigidly.
In this world Gun kata is explained and it works to how it's shown, so honestly it's fine.
It’s like one of those ridiculous India super hero movies 😂😂😂😂
Did matrix copy this scene?
No, shootouts have been a thing in movies for decades.
Other way around, The Matrix was a few years before Equilibrium.
Has to be shot super close up because if you watched from a far, it would look ridiculous 😅
So stupid all these guys just waiting in a line to get shot
I'm sorry but that shit is just too silly.
I don't get why they didn't disarm him
They thought they had. He showed up with his katana, which he willingly gave them. His other weapons, as unrealistic as it might be, were hidden.
@@jamesoakes4842 He is a Grammaron Cleric, a practitioner of gun kata and they didn't check him for guns!
@@Littletime839 True. But they also had every reason to think he was being cooperative and didn't want to let him know the jig was up. They asked him for his weapons and the sword was the only thing he gave them. They even kind of gloat a little bit afterward when they ask him the question after hooking him up to a polygraph, "What's the best way to get a weapon away from a Gramaton Cleric? You ask him for it."
Besides that, it's kind of implied that Preston is somewhat special even for a Gramaton Cleric. It's entirely possible they went with the thought process of, "Who cares if he has a hidden weapon? There's no way he's making it through a hallway with 100 armed guards."
John Wick copied this.
meanwhile, batman copied INSPECTOR TEQUILA YUEN
I came here to say. Man. Can you imagine Christian Bale redoing this with the John Wick team?
Equally as good as the JW films… still legitimately one of the best movies in its day Equilibrium
Yeah but this copied from the matrix😅
more like john wick's mentor
Outdoes Disney's Fantasyland
Matrix stole this!
Classic
Too bad Batman doesn't use handguns
Christian Bale tries a Keanu
Vice versa
Let's be fair 01:44 , 01:52 , 02:19 moves are dumb showoff: no purpose, where any non main character would be killed doing the same trick.
Patrick Bateman???
Сосновый бор
Айдолки закаменск
This some Bollywood shit
I feel dumber for watching this