Equilibrium was extremely underrated when it came out. Very few people realize what such a great movie it was for such a low-budget film. It was flashy, it wasn't high-octane Michael Bay you-touch-things-and-they-explode, J.J. Abrams lense-flare madness. It was simple but very skilled.
@@neighborhoodmusicsnob5517 Why is it "Stupid" though? I think the premise is very great...with how the society is denied of emotions through mandating drugs...it goes to show what would come of society if what makes us human simply vanishes. Heck, I know someone who became emotionless and cold as a defense mechanism because his true feelings and personality always got him in trouble...so he started being stoic and cold....it kinda reminds me of the villains justification for taking humanity's emotions away because "It lead to war and suffering".
The editing in this film is pretty immaculate. The actual concept of gun kata is absurd but the perfect cutting and angle changes make it actually seem plausible
The actual concept of gun kata is pretty sound. That is to say, apply the principles of martial arts to the gun as a weapon and an extension of your will. Run a Dozier Drill a few hundred times and tell me it doesn't start feeling like a kata, for example. The implementation, and the direction they went with it, however, is absolutely absurd. You don't try to dodge bullets, that's impossible. You position yourself to minimize your exposure, sure, but in any dynamic firefight, trying to position yourself to avoid 'typical firing lines' is silly because opponents will adjust their aim. Every utterance of garbage out of their mouths regarding what the Grammaton Clerics do in combat is ludicrous at best. Yet... applying the fundamentals of martial arts to gun combat is... an interesting concept. It's a shame they completely ignored the basic concepts of martial arts in general, breathing, stance, situational awareness... in favor of the flashy stuff.
@@ShneekeyTheLost It *could* in theory be possible, but only by someone who had super-human visual acuity, mental processing ability and photographic memory, and a spatial awareness bordering on divine. The sheer amount of variables you'd need to account for in order to make it work is daunting. Just to name a few, model of the gun down to knowing how the barrels and receivers are processed and what possible impact the most minute of defects could have on a bullets trajectory. You'd have to understand all potential powder loads and account for both standard and 'hot' loaded rounds, knowledge of every possible ammunition type said gun could load and how each of them are affected by different environmental factors. Even if you could get past the technical aspects like that there's still taking into account the psychological profile of the shooter, their build, their level of training down to even their breathing patterns and how they react to stress factors. When you actually start listing all of that is when you realize that it's better to just sit back and enjoy the movie lol.
The closest I can think of to something like this in action is room clearing drill. In fact most of that has to run on practiced instinct and perfect form, rather than reactive improvisarion, much like martial arts.
a brilliant film which didn't get the praise it deserved as it was in the shadow of the matrix... loosely based on books such as 1984 and Fahrenheit 451the fight scenes are brilliantly choreographed and the soundtrack is also incredible 10/10 for a great action movie
it was actually based on Kallocain, a Swedish novel very few people now. It was written by Karin Boye and had come out ten years before Orwell's 1984 did. Give it a read, you will see where Equilibrium's creators got the idea of people taking daily doses of mind-numbing drugs from (who also live in a totalitarian state). :)
The magic in this movie is in the budget. I think if it had had a big budget, it wouldn't have been as good. The creativity from a first time director trying to cram his vision into film with a limited budget is what makes the film so good.
Love how in many movies the big great enemy has superior fighting skills that can deal with many enemies, but he doesn't show it, or have to use it until the end of the movie. This guy was the grand cleric since a while, and he had no reason to be in shape, or fight. His man does that for him.
It would have lengthened the fight if he was ripped and fought recently like his man. Taye was perfect as he was amongst the best but no match for Father.
That's not as unbelievable (in the realm of this movie's 'reality')as the fact that Taye Diggs' character constantly smiles and acts happy in a world where emotion is supposed to be illegal and he's one of the enforcers of that law!
If those with power had no double standard then they’d have no standard at all. When I am Weaker Thn You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.
I'll just clear this up for all the idiots that didn't pay attention earlier in the movie. Gun Kata is a martial art derived from science (in the world of Equilibrium), and prediction. Depending on where someone is in relation to you, there are a set number of paths a bullet will travel, and the Cleric will predict the bullet trajectory before the other person has even pulled the trigger. Preston is the most skilled Cleric that has ever lived and he uses gun kata to almost super human levels. Other Clerics are nowhere near him. There is enough of an explanation earlier in the movie that should suspend your belief for the duration. If not, it is literally your own problem and not a fault of the movie.
You do, since you replyed, plus a lot of people out there too. And please, spare me of the "hurr durr u haev bad taste! Hurr durrrrrrr" generic butthurt comebacks.
Lyu Kang I don't give a shit about your taste. You can like what you like, that's no problem. But who gives a shit what you thought about this movie? You're nobody. All I did was explain something that people who didn't pay attention missed near the beginning of the movie. You talking about your vomit. Eat shit.
krowanders You seem to fail to realize that knowing where a bullet's going to go is meaningless when there's a steady stream of them in all directions. Man can outrun man, but man cannot outrun bullet.
Preston wrote the book on Gun Kata, then added to it as he got older. When he says in the film he didn't know if even he could do this? Well, I think this is the answer. Also, love his answer to can he take a life knowing the price he'll have to pay? He flashes on what HE'S lost as a result of the life he's lived-and kills the bad guy with a single shot, "I pay it gladly". That's what you call growth, from the emotionless killing machine he was at the start to this.
Equilibrium one of the most underrated action films directed by Kurt Wimmer which I feel was a head of it's time. The Gun Kata sequence that Kurt Wimmer created is amazing. There is that Jeet Kun Do combination in this final fight.
Dman that's fucking cool. I like how the black guy come and he's like " I'm the boss just before the final one bitch ". And then bruce wayne just slice his head. "No you're not"
The most impressing thing about Preston, is the fact that he manages not get one single blood stain on his clothes..not even when he killed Robert The Bruce!!
Well, in these scenes that is true, but when he destroys the computers in the next scene, the side of his neck has a very bad cut, and the blood was dripping on his white suit.
In traditional martial arts films, they use drastically different outfits to "clean up the chaos" so to speak in fight scenes. Usually bad guys in black, hero character wears white. This also tends to happen in simple cowboy flicks. The contrast in these situations is more important than the color. For instance in Bruce Lee's "The Game of Death" he wears the iconic bright yellow outfit, it helps you focus on which limbs are his in the chaos. Occasionally you will have a flashy villain in white, and the hero in black (Enter the Dragon for instance) but these were more the exceptions than the rule. Although I would say the outfit change does reflect a change within him thematically, functionally I think I think the color choice was to "clean up the chaos".
@@BigBenzilla Exactly. He is clear from the noise of the drugs and the cleric creed, he is now just doing what he always felt like doing. Although I think the director didn't intend for such a message. I think the white outfit was just supposed to represent that world's be formal attire as he was originally going to meet the Father as a reward, not to fight (at least the pretext).
I feel sorry for the people who watched this movie stuck on trying to apply logic and make sense out of things, in doing so, they totally missed the point of this film and couldn't enjoy it. This movie was nothing about realism, all about flair, and I, for one, enjoyed the fuck out of it. huehuehue
Travis Bellant its a world in which all emotion can be removed via a pill and soldiers can be so skilled at predicting the trajectory of a bullet they can do gun kata its likely these soldiers are in fact genetically engineered
It was an action film with actual depth. There is a message underneath all the cool looking gun kata action films. Unfortunately people or dense and for whatever reason can't see anything passed the surface and this miss out on any deeper meaning. An action film set in the future where emotion is outlawed by a fascists government with illusions to religious terminology (see Clerics). There is a ton of depth to be found in this film if you're willing to pay attention.
+Dinglie Danglie Doodle damn right this is just a movie we should just enjoy it logical or not this fight scenes was supposed to entertain as making it cheesy and unrealistic is the way of the movie to make it look awesome and also this movie is not a war movie but a scifi movie so its pretty normal to have this kinda scenes..... and damn its too damn awesome....
This film had alot of logic in it. Suppressing human emotions with a drug? Possible, emotions are just Chemicals. It would totally be possible to supress those Chemicals with a countering-drug. ||| The real-time dodging bullets? - Gun Kata is a martial art derived from science (in the world of Equilibrium), and prediction. Depending on where someone is in relation to you, there are a set number of paths a bullet will travel, and the Cleric will predict the bullet trajectory before the other person has even pulled the trigger. Preston is the most skilled Cleric that has ever lived and he uses gun kata to almost super human levels.||| The films is much about realism, something you seem to have missed.
I love it how the bad guy taunts him.. then suddenly something terrible, improbable, and plan-ruining happens.. and then the last two guys fall down ... and the boss man is sitting there looking very ... very depressed.
only problem with this movie was that black guy. He had easily visible emotion pretty much throughout the whole movie but nobody called him on it or even acknowledged it. I mean the very first thing he does in this video is smiles.
Almost everyone in the film is a sense offender. Christian Bale is about the only one who is not (originally). Also, the drug doesnt make people lack emotion completely. Just subdue it. They could still smile for instance.
S. that still doesn't account for the fact that nobody in the movie acknowledged him obviously feeling. Everywhere else in the movie, the slightest sign of feels were immediately reported by everyone and their mother and we're swiftly dealt with. On the other hand he openly looks like he's feeling all the time and nobody bats an eye.
This is the type of gunfights that I miss in movies :/ but everyone is so pissy about realism in movies nowadays we hardly have these sort of scenes anymore. I don't go to a movie for realism, if I wanted that I'd go outside. I wanna see shit you'd never see in real life.
Watch hong kong action movies like hard boiled,the killer,bullet in the head,a better tomorrow and many more..just google up heroic bloodshed movies and you will see the list there.
It's similar with Jackie Chan case too. When he first introduce martial art movie than not one hit KO like Bruce Lee, they didn't find it entertaining. Jackie Chan comment they (audience) was not ready that kind of movie yet. Perhaps someday in near future we will gonna see this kind of style might be popular.
I still think it's crazy that Dupont is the only character in the entire movie that even remotely challenges Preston in fighting ability. Maybe Dupont was once a Cleric too?
They could easily make a sequel. Father didn't die after all, it was a decoy story for Preston Destroying the prozium factories did nothing as there were large stockpiles of it in separate warehouses. The resistance fighters have grown in number and attack Libria with the help of Cleric defectors training the resistance in the ways of the Gun Kata. The resistance wins and moves to focus their efforts worldwide eventually finding Father and killing him, however, Father is the Great Grand Master of the gun kata and kicks some resistance ass before being overwhelmed by the resistance Clerics. That would make an epic movie, pity a sequel will never be made despite the demand for it.
You forgot that we didn't see what happened to all of the other Gun Kata guys I think that they would be a formidable force against the resistance in addition to the leftover soldiers.
All they need is a day without the drug, and the people will never agree to take it again. Not much a small elite fighting force can do about that. Assuming they were not sense offenders to begin with.
Love the way the battle starts. Preston looks over the guys shoulder, then looks back 1:54. Gives a little smile and slaughters them all. Such an underrated movie.
The final fight is the best in this movie because most of the other guys never even fight back. They just stand there, shift from foot to foot, or shoot off to the side. But when I first saw the final fight begin, my mind was blown. It's unlike any other combat I have ever seen.
You can predict anything except for any pure random factor. The art of dodging bullets isn't dodging bullets in the air, it's putting your person in a position the gun isn't pointing at, you predict that by looking at the person's body movements and moving a split second before their brain tells their finger to pull the trigger, so that you're not at the place they're shooting, and they can't react to your movements. They were keeping the other's guns pointing away from them in the fight scene.
4:29 nearer the bottom of the screen you see Taye Diggs' character's sliced-off-face calmly staring at the ceiling. The director's sense of humor almost killed me the first time I saw it.
hahaha my #1 movie favorite of all time of all years. Like I said in another video, I've watched thousands of movies and over the years this still remains to me as #1 of all time. I love the performance of Christian Bale, and Sean Bean, as well as the deep story about the movie in general about Tyranny and so on... Its so great. My god, how many people really fucking missed on this Masterpiece of a movie.
i love this movie! i fell in love with christian bale in this movie! i love fight scenes all the more because of the movie. I love the choreography of the fights! love love love!
In particular, I remember them saying that the gun katas were designed to maximise damage whilst simultaneously avoiding the most likely trajectories of return fire.
I've loved this movie for years. The story is every bit as amazing as the action. I can't think of a single scene I disliked. The best part is when you think there's going to be this big boss fight at the end with Brandt and he gets owned in seconds. Fuck the haters!
Realistic present day versus realistic in a dystopian future is a debatable thing, considering biological improvements and other things. The clerics could easily be genetically altered and augmented in some other ways. besides looking like they have monoedge or at least micro to nano sharpened swords. But liking things to be more modern and gritty is totally fine as a personal preference, what isn't as good is saying someone else's flavor isn't as badass because you don't like it. Besides if it was realistic It'd end like the first Matrix but without Keanu getting back up.
RedLithic Did I say that? (reads own comment) Oh, well... I'm a dumbass. It's just my own personal opinion on things. I know it's subjective, whether you like a film or not, but I just thought that it was completely stupid the way this scene was executed. So the cleric might be genetically altered to become a badass, but what about his opponents? Surely they should have the same thing? Surely they should be AT LEAST partially intelligent? All I saw was them standing around in a guard position instead of attacking Christian Bale on the sight.
Actually while it may seem cliche, "Equilibrium" is one of the rare movies that actually try to make it legitimate. Google "gun kata". Also the final fight was the most badass ones when i was watching movie for the first time. So anticlimatic.
"We should probably draw our weapons and have them at the ready, right?" "Meh" "We should probably just all open fire whilst he's doing that pose, right?" "Neh" "We should probably not have two guards posted behind the door with their backs to it, right?" "Eeeeh" "We should probably draw our swords before walking into touching distance, right?" "Heh" "We should probably shoot him the second he threw his gun down after he walked in the room, right?" "Nyu" "We should probably just give up this whole totalitarian regime business, right?" "Definitely" Pistol fight at the end was cool though
This might possibly be my favorite movie! because of the message behind it, because of the filming, the acting, the suspense, the flow of events, the correlations to our modern day society, the awesome action that wasn't TOO much OR too little and most of all I don't care what anyone says about my opinion.
I'm Glad To Have This Flick Added To My DVD Collection. I Love It. I'm The Kind Of Collector That Buy's Only The One's I Will See Over & Over Again. A Small Collection of 427 Movies. Only Thousand's to go.
Well he did change mags 2 times...I'd say 90 bullets is enough to kill all the guys in that room...Not counting the machine gun at the end. (Assuming the mags are not modified for extra capacity)
They are not botomless. He reloaded two times, and considering that even today some of side arms have 20 bullets mags, I can say, that his guns can hold 30, if his mags are modified. so let's see, 30+30 x 6 = 360, and it sounds fair enough.
as excellent as this movie is, I wish Taye Diggs had gotten the memo about this movie's plot surrounding suppressed emotions, because he is always way too happy and goofy smiling all the time. it's like, come on man!
I've been waiting for Obi-Wan, we meet again at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was a learner. Now I am the master. Only a master of evil Darth. Lines from Star wars A New Hope.
@@Gigatless ok guy, I never said the film isn't badass. It's a great film. it's just a joke because in the film, you're not allowed to have feelings. It's "wack" on purpose.
It's called Gun Kata. It's a hybrid mix of director Kurt Wimmer's own style of GK (invented in his backyard)] & the martial arts style of the choreographer, with elements of Wing Tsun. Much of the GK seen in the film is based on the choreographer's style. Wimmer's Gun Kata is dispersed sparsely throughout the movie, most notably in the introductory scene with the silhouetted man, played by Wimmer himself, practicing with dual pistols.
Michał Hryb Look at the sword that is in the man in black (on the left). Error 1: The piece of the sword on the front is not at the same height / place as the piece on the back >> Not a straight line. (2:12) Error 2: A sword of steel that breaks? (Also bending of the sword would not be right in this situation.) (2:13) Error 3: At 2:14 the piece of the sword on the back has miraculously disappeared. (and also the exit wound of the sword!) :]
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This really is one of the most underrated movies of all time.
so true
yeah wouldn't want this one going too mainstream...
Absolutely!
I know you've probably heard this, but I seriously implore you to watch more movies. Especially underrated ones.
100%
Equilibrium was extremely underrated when it came out. Very few people realize what such a great movie it was for such a low-budget film. It was flashy, it wasn't high-octane Michael Bay you-touch-things-and-they-explode, J.J. Abrams lense-flare madness. It was simple but very skilled.
Worthy of the Wachowski Sisters themselves
I agree. The technical aspects of this film speaks for themselves.
The story is really stupid but yeah the gun kata, as silly as it is, is pretty cool in a dumb guy type of way. And I'm here for that.
@@neighborhoodmusicsnob5517 Why is it "Stupid" though? I think the premise is very great...with how the society is denied of emotions through mandating drugs...it goes to show what would come of society if what makes us human simply vanishes.
Heck, I know someone who became emotionless and cold as a defense mechanism because his true feelings and personality always got him in trouble...so he started being stoic and cold....it kinda reminds me of the villains justification for taking humanity's emotions away because "It lead to war and suffering".
@@digitaldeathsquid3448 They had nothing to do with it, thank God.
The editing in this film is pretty immaculate. The actual concept of gun kata is absurd but the perfect cutting and angle changes make it actually seem plausible
This the film that created gun kata
@@kingjude8134 GunFu
The actual concept of gun kata is pretty sound. That is to say, apply the principles of martial arts to the gun as a weapon and an extension of your will. Run a Dozier Drill a few hundred times and tell me it doesn't start feeling like a kata, for example.
The implementation, and the direction they went with it, however, is absolutely absurd. You don't try to dodge bullets, that's impossible. You position yourself to minimize your exposure, sure, but in any dynamic firefight, trying to position yourself to avoid 'typical firing lines' is silly because opponents will adjust their aim. Every utterance of garbage out of their mouths regarding what the Grammaton Clerics do in combat is ludicrous at best.
Yet... applying the fundamentals of martial arts to gun combat is... an interesting concept. It's a shame they completely ignored the basic concepts of martial arts in general, breathing, stance, situational awareness... in favor of the flashy stuff.
@@ShneekeyTheLost It *could* in theory be possible, but only by someone who had super-human visual acuity, mental processing ability and photographic memory, and a spatial awareness bordering on divine. The sheer amount of variables you'd need to account for in order to make it work is daunting. Just to name a few, model of the gun down to knowing how the barrels and receivers are processed and what possible impact the most minute of defects could have on a bullets trajectory. You'd have to understand all potential powder loads and account for both standard and 'hot' loaded rounds, knowledge of every possible ammunition type said gun could load and how each of them are affected by different environmental factors. Even if you could get past the technical aspects like that there's still taking into account the psychological profile of the shooter, their build, their level of training down to even their breathing patterns and how they react to stress factors. When you actually start listing all of that is when you realize that it's better to just sit back and enjoy the movie lol.
The closest I can think of to something like this in action is room clearing drill. In fact most of that has to run on practiced instinct and perfect form, rather than reactive improvisarion, much like martial arts.
I love how the black guy (Don't know his name) was so confident but just got his face sliced off xD
Earlier in the film he beat Preston in the training hall, which gave him false confidence here.
his name is Taye Diggs...and same he didn't even have a chance all that talk and got his face sliced off
Well, Preston *WAS* careful of the uniform.
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Only out of shape Father could defend himself a little against such a warrior.
a brilliant film which didn't get the praise it deserved as it was in the shadow of the matrix... loosely based on books such as 1984 and Fahrenheit 451the fight scenes are brilliantly choreographed and the soundtrack is also incredible 10/10 for a great action movie
and Brave New world
it was actually based on Kallocain, a Swedish novel very few people now.
It was written by Karin Boye and had come out ten years before Orwell's 1984 did.
Give it a read, you will see where Equilibrium's creators got the idea of people taking daily doses of mind-numbing drugs from
(who also live in a totalitarian state). :)
@@Sirinwara thanks for that info I will check it out
The magic in this movie is in the budget. I think if it had had a big budget, it wouldn't have been as good. The creativity from a first time director trying to cram his vision into film with a limited budget is what makes the film so good.
Love how in many movies the big great enemy has superior fighting skills that can deal with many enemies, but he doesn't show it, or have to use it until the end of the movie. This guy was the grand cleric since a while, and he had no reason to be in shape, or fight. His man does that for him.
It would have lengthened the fight if he was ripped and fought recently like his man. Taye was perfect as he was amongst the best but no match for Father.
That's not as unbelievable (in the realm of this movie's 'reality')as the fact that Taye Diggs' character constantly smiles and acts happy in a world where emotion is supposed to be illegal and he's one of the enforcers of that law!
It's hinted at a couple of times that Diggs' character is under-medicated.
If those with power had no double standard then they’d have no standard at all.
When I am Weaker Thn You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.
I'll just clear this up for all the idiots that didn't pay attention earlier in the movie. Gun Kata is a martial art derived from science (in the world of Equilibrium), and prediction. Depending on where someone is in relation to you, there are a set number of paths a bullet will travel, and the Cleric will predict the bullet trajectory before the other person has even pulled the trigger. Preston is the most skilled Cleric that has ever lived and he uses gun kata to almost super human levels. Other Clerics are nowhere near him.
There is enough of an explanation earlier in the movie that should suspend your belief for the duration. If not, it is literally your own problem and not a fault of the movie.
No need to... this movie was shit, and I almost threw up at this scene...
Lyu Kang Who cares?
You do, since you replyed, plus a lot of people out there too.
And please, spare me of the "hurr durr u haev bad taste! Hurr durrrrrrr" generic butthurt comebacks.
Lyu Kang I don't give a shit about your taste. You can like what you like, that's no problem. But who gives a shit what you thought about this movie? You're nobody. All I did was explain something that people who didn't pay attention missed near the beginning of the movie. You talking about your vomit. Eat shit.
krowanders You seem to fail to realize that knowing where a bullet's going to go is meaningless when there's a steady stream of them in all directions. Man can outrun man, but man cannot outrun bullet.
Preston wrote the book on Gun Kata, then added to it as he got older. When he says in the film he didn't know if even he could do this? Well, I think this is the answer. Also, love his answer to can he take a life knowing the price he'll have to pay? He flashes on what HE'S lost as a result of the life he's lived-and kills the bad guy with a single shot, "I pay it gladly". That's what you call growth, from the emotionless killing machine he was at the start to this.
Equilibrium one of the most underrated action films directed by Kurt Wimmer which I feel was a head of it's time. The Gun Kata sequence that Kurt Wimmer created is amazing. There is that Jeet Kun Do combination in this final fight.
Dman that's fucking cool. I like how the black guy come and he's like " I'm the boss just before the final one bitch ". And then bruce wayne just slice his head. "No you're not"
"Bruce Wayne?" Tell me you said that on purpose. Oh please tell me.
-Beau Ch.
BeauCh Yes. it was for the humoristic side.
Geekreg dude THE BATMAN! :D
***** I obviously know Christian Bale played Bruce Wayne/Batman but this is Equilibrium not Batman
Most people see him as Bruce Wayne
The most impressing thing about Preston, is the fact that he manages not get one single blood stain on his clothes..not even when he killed Robert The Bruce!!
Well, in these scenes that is true, but when he destroys the computers in the next scene, the side of his neck has a very bad cut, and the blood was dripping on his white suit.
Robert the Bruce from Braveheart. Nice
You have well noticed it. Robert The Bruce from Bruce Clan.
Goddammit, THATS who that actor is, just chubbier here. I knew I'd seen him in something before but was too lazy to IMDB it
I love that he's wearing white to show that he's free now
I agree
How is white free?
In traditional martial arts films, they use drastically different outfits to "clean up the chaos" so to speak in fight scenes. Usually bad guys in black, hero character wears white. This also tends to happen in simple cowboy flicks. The contrast in these situations is more important than the color. For instance in Bruce Lee's "The Game of Death" he wears the iconic bright yellow outfit, it helps you focus on which limbs are his in the chaos. Occasionally you will have a flashy villain in white, and the hero in black (Enter the Dragon for instance) but these were more the exceptions than the rule. Although I would say the outfit change does reflect a change within him thematically, functionally I think I think the color choice was to "clean up the chaos".
@@BigBenzilla Exactly. He is clear from the noise of the drugs and the cleric creed, he is now just doing what he always felt like doing. Although I think the director didn't intend for such a message. I think the white outfit was just supposed to represent that world's be formal attire as he was originally going to meet the Father as a reward, not to fight (at least the pretext).
I feel sorry for the people who watched this movie stuck on trying to apply logic and make sense out of things, in doing so, they totally missed the point of this film and couldn't enjoy it.
This movie was nothing about realism, all about flair, and I, for one, enjoyed the fuck out of it. huehuehue
Travis Bellant its a world in which all emotion can be removed via a pill and soldiers can be so skilled at predicting the trajectory of a bullet they can do gun kata its likely these soldiers are in fact genetically engineered
It was an action film with actual depth. There is a message underneath all the cool looking gun kata action films. Unfortunately people or dense and for whatever reason can't see anything passed the surface and this miss out on any deeper meaning.
An action film set in the future where emotion is outlawed by a fascists government with illusions to religious terminology (see Clerics).
There is a ton of depth to be found in this film if you're willing to pay attention.
DOOMED ! is english your first language? if it is you need lessons
+Dinglie Danglie Doodle damn right this is just a movie we should just enjoy it logical or not this fight scenes was supposed to entertain as making it cheesy and unrealistic is the way of the movie to make it look awesome and also this movie is not a war movie but a scifi movie so its pretty normal to have this kinda scenes..... and damn its too damn awesome....
This film had alot of logic in it. Suppressing human emotions with a drug? Possible, emotions are just Chemicals. It would totally be possible to supress those Chemicals with a countering-drug. ||| The real-time dodging bullets? - Gun Kata is a martial art derived from science (in the world of Equilibrium), and prediction. Depending on where someone is in relation to you, there are a set number of paths a bullet will travel, and the Cleric will predict the bullet trajectory before the other person has even pulled the trigger. Preston is the most skilled Cleric that has ever lived and he uses gun kata to almost super human levels.||| The films is much about realism, something you seem to have missed.
I love it how the bad guy taunts him.. then suddenly something terrible, improbable, and plan-ruining happens.. and then the last two guys fall down ... and the boss man is sitting there looking very ... very depressed.
This is still some of the coolest shit I've ever seen.
Equilibrium is absolutely fantastic - one of my all-time favorites. I don't understand any of the hate this movie gets.
only problem with this movie was that black guy. He had easily visible emotion pretty much throughout the whole movie but nobody called him on it or even acknowledged it. I mean the very first thing he does in this video is smiles.
The main villain had been feeling the whole time, I have a feeling the black guy was too.
Almost everyone in the film is a sense offender. Christian Bale is about the only one who is not (originally). Also, the drug doesnt make people lack emotion completely. Just subdue it. They could still smile for instance.
DoctorSargeMD he obviously wasn't on the drug, along with the leader, duh dude the movie came out ages ago
S. that still doesn't account for the fact that nobody in the movie acknowledged him obviously feeling. Everywhere else in the movie, the slightest sign of feels were immediately reported by everyone and their mother and we're swiftly dealt with. On the other hand he openly looks like he's feeling all the time and nobody bats an eye.
higher ups never follow the rules they just make the lower class do it
Why this movie was not popular I have no idea. Some of the greatest fight scenes in movie history yet goes unrecognized. Go figure.
because it was an independent movie
They did not promoted the movie very well.
It was overshadowed by the matrix. People thought equilibrium was an off-brand version.
it's fun but a bit goofy and pretentious
This is the type of gunfights that I miss in movies :/
but everyone is so pissy about realism in movies nowadays we hardly have these sort of scenes anymore.
I don't go to a movie for realism, if I wanted that I'd go outside.
I wanna see shit you'd never see in real life.
I was just going to say something like this, but then I saw your comment.
Watch hong kong action movies like hard boiled,the killer,bullet in the head,a better tomorrow and many more..just google up heroic bloodshed movies and you will see the list there.
Habel Mamora same with porn you watch stuff that youre not gonna see in real life
It's similar with Jackie Chan case too. When he first introduce martial art movie than not one hit KO like Bruce Lee, they didn't find it entertaining. Jackie Chan comment they (audience) was not ready that kind of movie yet. Perhaps someday in near future we will gonna see this kind of style might be popular.
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+Stanley"Labladorite"Comment Bale.
+Ben Shepard1:54: its you my friend ?
P2W
true freedom is in heart.
Be careful, Preston. You're treading on my DREAMS O_O
JP Poole cleric: fuck your dreams
I still think it's crazy that Dupont is the only character in the entire movie that even remotely challenges Preston in fighting ability. Maybe Dupont was once a Cleric too?
alexbond45 DuPont invented Gun Kata
He was the one who invented it, I think. goofy as it looks, they showed it off pretty well.
They could easily make a sequel.
Father didn't die after all, it was a decoy story for Preston
Destroying the prozium factories did nothing as there were large stockpiles of it in separate warehouses.
The resistance fighters have grown in number and attack Libria with the help of Cleric defectors training the resistance in the ways of the Gun Kata.
The resistance wins and moves to focus their efforts worldwide eventually finding Father and killing him, however, Father is the Great Grand Master of the gun kata and kicks some resistance ass before being overwhelmed by the resistance Clerics.
That would make an epic movie, pity a sequel will never be made despite the demand for it.
all about money, sadly-let's just hope that if a sequel/remake/reboot is done, it's as good as the bale version
*****
Budget:
$20 000 000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend:
$61 468 (South Africa) (12 September 2003)
Gross:
$104 843 (South Africa) (19 September 2003)
***** Issuing only a teaser trailer didn't help it at all, bad idea!
You forgot that we didn't see what happened to all of the other Gun Kata guys I think that they would be a formidable force against the resistance in addition to the leftover soldiers.
All they need is a day without the drug, and the people will never agree to take it again. Not much a small elite fighting force can do about that. Assuming they were not sense offenders to begin with.
So do they just tell their guards "Hey, wear these bags of dust. They won't protect you but at least it'll look cool when you die"?
Love the way the battle starts. Preston looks over the guys shoulder, then looks back 1:54. Gives a little smile and slaughters them all. Such an underrated movie.
One of my favorite Underrated Action Sci-fi Movies ever!!!
8/10
The final fight is the best in this movie because most of the other guys never even fight back. They just stand there, shift from foot to foot, or shoot off to the side. But when I first saw the final fight begin, my mind was blown. It's unlike any other combat I have ever seen.
久しぶり見ましたがいつ見ても戦闘シーンが最高ですな
I love the last dual...
"I pay it gladly."
BADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSS !
None of that "forgive your enemy because no one is a bad guy" bullshit hollywood pushes on us now.
Love how the black guy tries to act all cool like he's something special but he's the easiest kill lol
yeah me too lmao
“I pay it gladly” such an under appreciated line
I think what's so impressive to me about this scene as how his suit stays clean the entire time.
You can predict anything except for any pure random factor. The art of dodging bullets isn't dodging bullets in the air, it's putting your person in a position the gun isn't pointing at, you predict that by looking at the person's body movements and moving a split second before their brain tells their finger to pull the trigger, so that you're not at the place they're shooting, and they can't react to your movements. They were keeping the other's guns pointing away from them in the fight scene.
Yeah, yeah, we've all seen Remo Williams.
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
0:06 Guards wondering: "Is he throwing dildos at us?"
why no comment here? brilliant
ps i I know I thought that was hysterical
That's why they opened fire immediately.
Christian Bale is, hands down, one of the finest pieces of acting skill out there!
4:29 nearer the bottom of the screen you see Taye Diggs' character's sliced-off-face calmly staring at the ceiling. The director's sense of humor almost killed me the first time I saw it.
I don't care what people say I love this movie sure it has some problems but I still love watching it.
im always remember these words "When Batman s in White, youre dead than ever"
some scenes look funny now but 10 years back i was in love with this :D
4:35: Preston throws away his gun because Batman doesn't use them
hahaha my #1 movie favorite of all time of all years. Like I said in another video, I've watched thousands of movies and over the years this still remains to me as #1 of all time. I love the performance of Christian Bale, and Sean Bean, as well as the deep story about the movie in general about Tyranny and so on... Its so great. My god, how many people really fucking missed on this Masterpiece of a movie.
3.00 That's what I call a "Face off"
😂🤣😂🤣
i love this movie! i fell in love with christian bale in this movie! i love fight scenes all the more because of the movie. I love the choreography of the fights! love love love!
In particular, I remember them saying that the gun katas were designed to maximise damage whilst simultaneously avoiding the most likely trajectories of return fire.
The last duel is really awesome. I've watched dozens of action scenes but that one is crazy.
If he was not a lazy overeaters Father may have won. I guess his 'emotions' pushed him to pasta.😂
I've loved this movie for years. The story is every bit as amazing as the action. I can't think of a single scene I disliked. The best part is when you think there's going to be this big boss fight at the end with Brandt and he gets owned in seconds. Fuck the haters!
Also, the oh shit face at 2:16 and 2:52. Haha!
This is the most bad ass gun fight sence ever.LOL
+Ultimate_EX Watch John Wick.... just watch it. Then we can have that debate.
+Ulfric Ruthgardsson Watch the movie that is a love letter to the same movies this one codified into gun kata?
RedLithic Yes, because John Wick is at least closer to reality than this one. This one is quite over-the-top and, well... stupid.
Realistic present day versus realistic in a dystopian future is a debatable thing, considering biological improvements and other things. The clerics could easily be genetically altered and augmented in some other ways. besides looking like they have monoedge or at least micro to nano sharpened swords. But liking things to be more modern and gritty is totally fine as a personal preference, what isn't as good is saying someone else's flavor isn't as badass because you don't like it. Besides if it was realistic It'd end like the first Matrix but without Keanu getting back up.
RedLithic Did I say that? (reads own comment) Oh, well... I'm a dumbass.
It's just my own personal opinion on things. I know it's subjective, whether you like a film or not, but I just thought that it was completely stupid the way this scene was executed. So the cleric might be genetically altered to become a badass, but what about his opponents? Surely they should have the same thing? Surely they should be AT LEAST partially intelligent? All I saw was them standing around in a guard position instead of attacking Christian Bale on the sight.
Actually while it may seem cliche, "Equilibrium" is one of the rare movies that actually try to make it legitimate. Google "gun kata". Also the final fight was the most badass ones when i was watching movie for the first time. So anticlimatic.
in this movie i like how martial arts are displayed and combined with guns :) entertaining Movie :D
"We should probably draw our weapons and have them at the ready, right?"
"Meh"
"We should probably just all open fire whilst he's doing that pose, right?"
"Neh"
"We should probably not have two guards posted behind the door with their backs to it, right?"
"Eeeeh"
"We should probably draw our swords before walking into touching distance, right?"
"Heh"
"We should probably shoot him the second he threw his gun down after he walked in the room, right?"
"Nyu"
"We should probably just give up this whole totalitarian regime business, right?"
"Definitely"
Pistol fight at the end was cool though
You know, EVERY movie, has "those" moments, so it's really pointless to try bring down equlibrium just because he had some of those...
Always one person who cries in the comments
@@LOLAP95
You mean the excuse maker or the one that made a valid criticism of a corny movie and pointed out things that they actually liked?
@@1LERS1 You would not enjoy cinema sins
@@mabus4910 Never watched, and really don't want to. Every "professional" can talk smack about a movie, no need for a talent to do that.
Just watched this movie today in Netflix and it kind of reminded me of Bruce Lee's Game of Death but in the future. Super cool!
4:27 The (dreadful) Consequences of War by P.P. Rubens. Just at the ending of such a scene. How ironic.
one of the great movies of the past, i love this one much :)
This might possibly be my favorite movie! because of the message behind it, because of the filming, the acting, the suspense, the flow of events, the correlations to our modern day society, the awesome action that wasn't TOO much OR too little and most of all I don't care what anyone says about my opinion.
I'm Glad To Have This Flick Added To My DVD Collection. I Love It. I'm The Kind Of Collector That Buy's Only The One's I Will See Over & Over Again. A Small Collection of
427 Movies. Only Thousand's to go.
The Movie is Great !!
yup great movie. It hit home with me because Christian is the same age as me, and it opened my eyes at a very young age.
2:36
Most epic sword battle ever :)
B_mod how is that even a "battle"?
There are times when the worst thing you can do to an ennemy is to make him lose face!🙃
where did he buy his guns with bottomless clips?
mags*
Hollywood.
Well he did change mags 2 times...I'd say 90 bullets is enough to kill all the guys in that room...Not counting the machine gun at the end. (Assuming the mags are not modified for extra capacity)
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They are not botomless. He reloaded two times, and considering that even today some of side arms have 20 bullets mags, I can say, that his guns can hold 30, if his mags are modified. so let's see, 30+30 x 6 = 360, and it sounds fair enough.
as excellent as this movie is, I wish Taye Diggs had gotten the memo about this movie's plot surrounding suppressed emotions, because he is always way too happy and goofy smiling all the time. it's like, come on man!
When getting shot, everyone is really really dusty..... lol
They could only afford one type of impact FX I guess. lol
This movie was crisp. This movie reminded me of how much I loved Christian.
I love how the muzzle flashes are the Libria symbol
one of the most underrated films of all time
so if batman used guns this is how he would be... interesting
If Batman didn't mind killing his adversaries.
I like, how the thugs standing in a circle and present their swords.... "Please, choose one...or two, if you like !"
4:28 that's another actor! Not Christian Bale.
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This is the first extremely violent movie I ever saw and the face cutting scene was the most awesome thing 10 year old me ever saw lol
That gun duel was unintentionally hilarious
You must find a lot of things hilarious.
@@jeanjacqueslundi3502Not quite, but this film's wacky choreography certainly is to me.
I've been waiting for Obi-Wan, we meet again at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was a learner. Now I am the master. Only a master of evil Darth. Lines from Star wars A New Hope.
They should have called this movie The Feels.
Except that the movie is badass and your title is wack
Yeah....no. Equilibrium is already a cool title.
@@crashfan9997 it's just a joke. Because in the film you're not allowed to have feelings.
@@Gigatless ok guy, I never said the film isn't badass. It's a great film. it's just a joke because in the film, you're not allowed to have feelings. It's "wack" on purpose.
Ra's Al Ghul: I warned you about compassion, Bruce!
*Bruce shoots.*
Ra's Al Ghul: Never mind then. xD
Bad assert level, over 9000
agreed. and its one of the most underrated movies i know.sadly.
2:56 Is that what Asians mean when they talk about "losing face"?
Great film! I watch it for 10 times minimum!
He killed Robert The Bruce.
haha, should have backed Wallace when he had the chance
This is one of the best fight scenes I've seen in an action movie. The other movie with really good fight scenes is undisputed
did i hear matrix calling.. it wants it's lobby scene back.
In no way relating to the Matrix you Troll!!
Eurodollartrader Uh, lol.
I always felt Christian Bale films had great production values. Thank you for sharing.
He would make a perfect Vergil from Devil May Cry 3...just saying lol
4:29 I like how they placed his face down there like photoshop without any blood..
Wouldn't have looked for it without you, and now... Lol.
It’s fuckin art
It's called Gun Kata. It's a hybrid mix of director Kurt Wimmer's own style of GK (invented in his backyard)] & the martial arts style of the choreographer, with elements of Wing Tsun. Much of the GK seen in the film is based on the choreographer's style. Wimmer's Gun Kata is dispersed sparsely throughout the movie, most notably in the introductory scene with the silhouetted man, played by Wimmer himself, practicing with dual pistols.
I can't decide if Equilibrium is just low budget The Matrix or if The Matrix is high budget Equilibrium.
James Seibert HAHA
***** Yeah I know right, the cinematography in this sucks.
more like a rip off of 1984 with matrix sprinkled on for flavor
***** the long hallway fight in this video is just a shittier version of the lobby scene in the matrix
i agree, he was really quick to show his emotion.
And the sword fight is me in assassins creed.
Man, Preston, with those skills you should be a super hero or a serial killer or something. Maybe a magician.
You need better soldiers henchmen bad guys.
I think a lot of people missed the sliced off face on the floor at the 4:28 mark.
It's near the bottom slightly right of center.
3:19 Love that part!
i so enjoyed these scenes. i probably watched this film a dozen times, and still love it. This is the first film i fell in love with Christian Bale!
The first film I've ever seen of Christian Bale was 'Empire Of The Sun', and I didn't even realise it was him. Second one was 'Equilibrium'.
2:11 >> Can you spot the fail?
I can't. Tell me.
What's wrong with it :|
Michał Hryb Look at the sword that is in the man in black (on the left).
Error 1: The piece of the sword on the front is not at the same height / place as the piece on the back >> Not a straight line. (2:12)
Error 2: A sword of steel that breaks? (Also bending of the sword would not be right in this situation.) (2:13)
Error 3: At 2:14 the piece of the sword on the back has miraculously disappeared. (and also the exit wound of the sword!)
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somegreatbloke
The piece on the back is an actual sheath.
it is called movie magic
My favorite Christian Bale movie by far.
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Thanks for uploading.