It's actually one of the most realistic when you think about it. Duels to the death usually were over in a matter of seconds, as the more skilled swordsman would execute techniques meant to kill quickly. The risk in drawing out a duel is fatigue. Preston did several things correctly. First, in their previous duel, he knew Brandt was testing out his weaknesses. So he allowed Brandt's hubris to make the assumption that he had Preston figured out. Second, during this duel, Preston executes 3 cuts with the blade. 2 to disarm, the final to kill. Simple, efficient, and precise. Third, no monologuing, he remains objective. Preston allows his opponent to speak but remains intensely focused on the goal at hand at all times.
@@unknowninfinium4353 "The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War. Yeah, you're right on that.
@@unknowninfinium4353 I'm a chick actually. I just used my personal copy of Art of War to type that quote. I think it's influenced a lot of real world and fictional battles.
Oh yeah, I remember my confusion on hearing 1:31. A very strange choice of foley there. It's clearly electrical, such as circuits being burnt, or exposed to high voltage. I thought it was going to imply that Brandt is some form of android.
For those of you bothered by the pillars scene: the pillars are hollow, allowing the guards to always be there during any meeting Father has. When Preston steps in, they're inside the pillars with the doors shut. As he walks into the room, they slide them open and step out. I know, I built the pillars. That's right, I'm the notorious Grammaton Pillar Builder.™
I just love a movie that is not afraid to let the Protagonist be completely over-powered. It gets so old when watching a movie about some badass, and half way thru there's the obligatory drama of them either losing their powers/abilities, or having to face off against a "better" version of themselves that was conveniently made by the villain. This movie was just like, "nope. He's a badass. He wins. Every time."
What? The opposite is the case from what I see since 2 decades. Protagonist saves the day cliché. You see badass Villians like this, and then they are in the end idiotic cowards with no deepth at all. You can especially see in the villians face in the Final fight fight he will lose, he looks nervous while the Protagonist remains calm & confident. This are Obvious indicators the Protagonist will win, in most of the cases. At least he could have delivered a fight where he also damages the Protagonist heavily, but no, just the same old story that happends in more than every second movie/show/cartoon/Anime/3d etc. Etc.
This isn't overpowered, just better skilled, there is a difference. People in real life vary in skill levels, hence why some people go pro and others do not. Bale is the best of all of them, it's not an overpowernment. Nothing is supernatural here either people can fight with swords and guns in real life.
@TheShadowblade I disagree. I think Preston played Brandt by pretending he was weaker. By making Brandt think he knew his weak points, he was in fact testing out how he could beat his opponent.
How in the hell was Taye Diggs not booked, or at the very least, called out for sense offense? Dude was smiling and had a cheerful disposition throughout the whole movie.
Yes but the real "Father" did say that those at the top weren't taking the drugs themselves. So it's possible that Brandt wasn't on them or at least on a dose as strong as everyone else's.
I was serving the Army in 2006, and at the time I got 3 days off, in a small town that didn't offered too much in terms of entertainment... Surfing through channels, I landed on the gun kata scene, and I was hooked... It's really an underrated movie, with amazing fighting scenes, without lots of cuts that undermine their thrill...
Which rating site did you glean this from ? I find that people never even check the ratings of a movie. They just like to constantly say this in the comments so that they sound like an authority on the subject
I love this scene. As with everything else in the movie things are not what they seem, and we suddenly learn that he has always held back, even before he stopped taking the drug, so the "bosses" have no idea how dangerous he really is... Just think of the training match in the start with his new "partner". It conveniently ended in a draw, allowing him to completely surprise him in this fight.
I think in his sparring match he had to hold back hed only just started to feel emotion if hed gone all out he may not have been able to maintain emotional composure. By the end he has nothing to lose he doesnt have to control his emotions and absolutely wipes the floor with everyone
Wow. You are so right!!! From the hero's perspective, he would be able to clearly see them just standing behind the columns when he walked in. They were merely standing where they were so that the CAMERA (aka the audience) couldn't see them at first. How silly!!!!
I actually think this is an homage to Seijun Suzuki's "Tokyo Drifter". He has very similar scene where an assailant is hidden from the viewer, but not the character... a surrealistic film decision.
This was also quite original movie since almost every movie between 2000-2006 used slow motion and filters to look like Matrix. Low budged movie with some solid performances and good philosophical ideas and since it knew what it was, we went along with ridiculousness of gun katas.
They were going around the pillars as he was entering. Must've looked ridiculous from the main villain's perspective. Maybe that's why he was smiling:D
Remember, when Preston and Brandt were sparring earlier in the film, Preston was still adjusting to having emotions, and the point was not to kill each other. Preston has years of experience and is basically the top of the Clerics in terms of skill and operational records, even after he shows off why, Brandt is still cocky. He's expecting a similar fight to the spar, only he is totally unprepared for Preston in Tranquil Fury mode with the intent to kill. Also, IIRC, Diggs (Brandt's actor) needed to jump to his next project and the filming had gone a little longer than expected, hence the quick resolution to his fight. It does a nice job setting up the fight with Dupont, though.
I always thought this part was supposed to a bit of a humorous thing. About halfway through the movie, you see Preston and Brandt dueling and being on equal footing. Near the end, Preston charges down the hallway killing dozens of guard like some sort of unstoppable killing machine. He is then confronted by Brandt, leading the viewer to believe that we're about to see the epic showdown of two martial artists pulling out all stops. But nope. Fight's over in a matter of seconds. Creators were like: Oh, you thought you were going to see a cool fight? Psyche!
When he fought the black guy the first time, Preston was feeling ( the black guy also feels, like the father and most of the people in power) so they were on equal grounds. But as we seen in the previous clip where Preston is on that machine, he manages to stop all his feelings and become what he was, a Grammaton Cleric with no feelings, better then everyone. Thats why the Father wanted to get rid of him, cause only Preston could bring down the corrupt government.
"Sean calls at five from the Racquet Club and tells me to meet him at Dorsia tonight. He just talked to Brin, the owner, and reserved a table at nine. My mind is a mess. I don’t know what to think or how to feel."
Back when people had doubts about Christian Bale being a good enough Batman, I had already watched this movie and would always mention it to point out how he would be just fine. He did great.
In theory, when an extremely skilled and fast bladesman with an extremely sharp blade, you will not see blood splatter until the body parts hit the ground.
I only just noticed a really subtle but awesome little detail in this fight. It happen so quick I've never noticed it before! 0:53 When he's fighting the guards, the second 'sword' he grabs is actually just a sheath for a sword, which seconds later he uses to block an attack, which slices the sheath into a sharp point which he then uses to stab someone. That's bloody awesome.
I always thought the tripping of an opponent with a sword was stupid in this scene. Now that I see that he actually trips him with the sheath it makes much more sense! This just proves what a genius film this is. Making that fight scene must have taken weeks of training to get everything perfect.
1:32 - It looks like we are about to see... (puts on sunglasses) A real Face-Off... YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH DAAAAN DAN DAN DUN
All things considered, this movie still holds up pretty well. If Hollywood didn't screw up adaptations and sequels so much, I'd say this film deserves one/
I love the swordfight scene, because it's in absolute contrast to the absurdity of the gunfighting. Real swordfighting isn't clashing and clanging of blades and pirouetting around (which is what the gunfighting is). It's over in seconds and you pretty much get taken out of the fight by a single blow.
Best thing about this scene is that the real point was that Bale's character was just playing Diggs earlier in the movie. He could have killed him at any moment. And then he did.
What makes this movie unique is how it plays with cliches in general. Same with "romantic" theme between Preston and Mary. It's cut right before you start to worry it will lead to yet another sob story in (so far) badass movie, with no happy ending :) What a relief.
Now the diligent observer might catch him stabbing a dude with a hilt at 1:01 which is silly. But the astute observer will see him using the sword thrust of an opponent and the blocking action to sharpen that same hilt to a proper stake at 0:57. Brilliant.
This could have had Matrix-level fight scenes, but instead of making very deliberate camera decisions, they just did circles around the actors and edited them together without any thought. I wonder how Yuen Wo Ping would have done it.
This film is better than the Matrix though. The Matrix is a stolen idea from the pilot episode of Star Trek the original series. Its called 'The Cage.'
@@245-TRIOXIN Calling it "stolen" is a bit far fetched. It's not as if all Star Trek stories were original. All screen writers get inspiration from somewhere and the Matrix was inspired by the "allegory of the cave" by Plato as well as biblical stories and other sources that predate Star Trek by millenia.
“There he goes. One of God’s own prototype’s. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”-Hunter S. Thompson
lol, i just realised that after getting cut up the guns drop, his KATANA drops but when he's falling on his knees you can clearly see him still holding the katana.
It was an awesome film when I first saw it in early 2000’s and I’ve watched it countless times since - entertaining and thought-provoking plus excellent fight scenes and music
This is such an underrated movie. As an enthusiast of swords I could nitpick all sorts of things with the fight scenes, but truth is there is more to a film than that. I saw this movie once, a while ago, and to this day I'm haunted by the death of that lady who was arrested in the film. All I can say is if you hadn't seen this film, see it. It is good. Very good.
As beautiful and amazing as this movie was, there was _no way_ those men were hiding there. They clearly weren't standing behind the pillars, because with the direction the shadows were being cast, either their bodies or their shadows would have been visible. That doesn't even mention the two guys that were standing there right next to Preston, in full view, assumedly saying with their eyes "just act like we're not here."
It's even worse, the government is controlled by automatons who will execute any order and maintain law without any kind of remorse and second thoughts.
0:20 how awkward those 2 guards would feel when they can clearly see him walking into the room but had to stay at the back untill he starts to walking again....
![Neo vs Merovingian | The Matrix Reloaded [IMAX]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/uXGE0vuuaDo/mqdefault.jpg)
When you hold off the main quest till you've maxed out your character.
All those side quest xp lol
Lmaoooo chill
*WORTH IT*
Botw style.
I did that with Alduin, in my very 1st play-through of Skyrim. It served me well!
What i love about this is the fact the audience expects a long drawn out suspenseful fight, but it just ends in a matter of seconds.
It's actually one of the most realistic when you think about it. Duels to the death usually were over in a matter of seconds, as the more skilled swordsman would execute techniques meant to kill quickly. The risk in drawing out a duel is fatigue.
Preston did several things correctly. First, in their previous duel, he knew Brandt was testing out his weaknesses. So he allowed Brandt's hubris to make the assumption that he had Preston figured out. Second, during this duel, Preston executes 3 cuts with the blade. 2 to disarm, the final to kill. Simple, efficient, and precise. Third, no monologuing, he remains objective. Preston allows his opponent to speak but remains intensely focused on the goal at hand at all times.
@@mish375 Ma man here just read the art of war.
@@unknowninfinium4353 "The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
Yeah, you're right on that.
@@mish375 Dude I'd take this opportunity to ask what books you recommend man. No cheesy, yoga crap. Something worth reading.
@@unknowninfinium4353 I'm a chick actually. I just used my personal copy of Art of War to type that quote. I think it's influenced a lot of real world and fictional battles.
Oh yeah, I remember my confusion on hearing 1:31. A very strange choice of foley there. It's clearly electrical, such as circuits being burnt, or exposed to high voltage. I thought it was going to imply that Brandt is some form of android.
Soviet Womble?! Ur here?!
He scored a critical hit.
Eyy it's Womble.
but its sooooooooo coooooooooool
OH Soviet you and your random TH-cam comments,
GIT OUTTA HERE! GO ON NOW, BACK TO PRODUCING THE TRICKLE O VIDEOS, GIT! GIT!
Impressive.
Now let’s see Paul Allen’s samurai sword
LOL
U forgot " very nice " 🤣
😅
YES! YES! THIS!
I believe he has a Hattori Hanzo.
For those of you bothered by the pillars scene: the pillars are hollow, allowing the guards to always be there during any meeting Father has. When Preston steps in, they're inside the pillars with the doors shut. As he walks into the room, they slide them open and step out. I know, I built the pillars. That's right, I'm the notorious Grammaton Pillar Builder.™
Ratio 🥱
I guess that means you're a
Pillar man.
@@Corvid8317 *Ayayayay intensifies*
@@Venom-rt8cn lol its a jojo reference
Thank you for being a pillar to our community.
All things considered, he did get to wear that uniform for the rest of his life.
Not all of him
Those guards want their swords be put good use.
The other guy with dual pistols didn't put them to good use.
@Seth Organs What doesn't make sense? Hence the copying and pasting. I want feedbacks.
Always look at the bright side of life
He meant Preston’s uniform, dummie, as he planned to take his position.
I just love a movie that is not afraid to let the Protagonist be completely over-powered. It gets so old when watching a movie about some badass, and half way thru there's the obligatory drama of them either losing their powers/abilities, or having to face off against a "better" version of themselves that was conveniently made by the villain.
This movie was just like, "nope. He's a badass. He wins. Every time."
Fear the weapon you made lest it be used against you
What? The opposite is the case from what I see since 2 decades. Protagonist saves the day cliché. You see badass Villians like this, and then they are in the end idiotic cowards with no deepth at all. You can especially see in the villians face in the Final fight fight he will lose, he looks nervous while the Protagonist remains calm & confident. This are Obvious indicators the Protagonist will win, in most of the cases. At least he could have delivered a fight where he also damages the Protagonist heavily, but no, just the same old story that happends in more than every second movie/show/cartoon/Anime/3d etc. Etc.
This isn't overpowered, just better skilled, there is a difference. People in real life vary in skill levels, hence why some people go pro and others do not. Bale is the best of all of them, it's not an overpowernment. Nothing is supernatural here either people can fight with swords and guns in real life.
No wonder this movie is boring then. No real threat to the protag.
Clearly you’ve never heard of Bollywood
I CAN'T be the only person who thought that the black dude was going to to be some mini-boss that would last a little long than 2 seconds.
I think that was the point
That black dudes name is Tay Diggs. He’s pretty famous.
Well he was the mini boss but the hero did all the side quests.
@@StMyca underrated comment. 😂
That white dude took out the black guy in freakin 5 seconds. flawless
Impressive. Very nice. Let see Paul Allen's fight.
Paul Allen will just say IT'S MORBIN TIME the fight's good as over
A Hitori Hanzo sword. Look at that black and gold handle. Oh my god, it even has his logo on it.
That is one man who SERIOUSLY underestimated his opponent.
@TheShadowblade I disagree. I think Preston played Brandt by pretending he was weaker. By making Brandt think he knew his weak points, he was in fact testing out how he could beat his opponent.
Specially after he just witnessed what he was capable of!
@TheShadowblade since He did not show his power before
@TheShadowblade it reminds me of Jesus. They killed him the first time he will finish them the next time
@TheShadowblade you know that Tetragrammaton means Jesus right?
"Mind the uniform cleric, I plan to be wearing it for a long time".
He's a man of his word. He still wears the uniform...without a face.
Yet his uniform is the most cut up amongst all the dudes that were killed...
He meant Preston's uniform..
Well, he did wear it for the rest of his life
He failed so I guess he lost face...Literally.
I only understood the joke now. He got defaced. "Loosing your face" taken literally.
How in the hell was Taye Diggs not booked, or at the very least, called out for sense offense? Dude was smiling and had a cheerful disposition throughout the whole movie.
He did comment at one point how he needed to get his dose adjusted.
Yes but the real "Father" did say that those at the top weren't taking the drugs themselves. So it's possible that Brandt wasn't on them or at least on a dose as strong as everyone else's.
You misinterpret feelings. A complete sociopath can show a whole range of facial expressions, doesn't mean he has feelings connected to any of those.
They are both feeling. One Good. One Evil.
How in the hell am I typing without meaning?
Equilibrium is a very underrated film.Watched it back when i was in high school
I watched it high in school
I was serving the Army in 2006, and at the time I got 3 days off, in a small town that didn't offered too much in terms of entertainment... Surfing through channels, I landed on the gun kata scene, and I was hooked... It's really an underrated movie, with amazing fighting scenes, without lots of cuts that undermine their thrill...
100% agree. Love this movie!
@@marfan2007 nobody asked.
Which rating site did you glean this from ?
I find that people never even check the ratings of a movie.
They just like to constantly say this in the comments so that they sound like an authority on the subject
I love this scene. As with everything else in the movie things are not what they seem, and we suddenly learn that he has always held back, even before he stopped taking the drug, so the "bosses" have no idea how dangerous he really is... Just think of the training match in the start with his new "partner". It conveniently ended in a draw, allowing him to completely surprise him in this fight.
It ended in a draw, but only after Preston knocked his face mask off with basically the same move he used here 😅
I think in his sparring match he had to hold back hed only just started to feel emotion if hed gone all out he may not have been able to maintain emotional composure. By the end he has nothing to lose he doesnt have to control his emotions and absolutely wipes the floor with everyone
The form that Tay Diggs took before the fight is so beautiful and graceful, too bad he died in less than 2 seconds 😔😢
0:18 Those guys were hiding from the camera, not him XD
Wow. You are so right!!! From the hero's perspective, he would be able to clearly see them just standing behind the columns when he walked in. They were merely standing where they were so that the CAMERA (aka the audience) couldn't see them at first. How silly!!!!
@@Frankie2012channel imagine that
they've mastered art of standing so still that they became invisible
@@invisiblekincajou . . . taught by the master himself . . . the Great Drax .
I actually think this is an homage to Seijun Suzuki's "Tokyo Drifter". He has very similar scene where an assailant is hidden from the viewer, but not the character... a surrealistic film decision.
This is the prime example of Japanese-Anime style Hollywood film, along with The Matrix. Screw those Dragon-ball Evolution and other failures.
My big issue is that they carry the saya wrong, edge is carried facing up.
This was also quite original movie since almost every movie between 2000-2006 used slow motion and filters to look like Matrix. Low budged movie with some solid performances and good philosophical ideas and since it knew what it was, we went along with ridiculousness of gun katas.
@@flyboy6392 Well, there are ancient styles that required the saya to be carried facing downward.
@@hinrei1986 only thing I can think of is a boto-noto, but that is a cut-and-return
Dragon-ball Evolution .. *Shudders* >_
Equilibrium is one of the most underrated movies of all time.
Agreed 100%.
of all times !
Agreed!
Perhaps people thought it was inspired by matrix. Even the clerk mr bale looks Neo in white. 🤭
It is one of my favorites!
When you kill too many creeps and level up to 100 then find that the scary boss is only lv50...
Def the best comment on this thread lol nice bro
this is an equivalent to doing all the side quests and storylines first and then going for the main quests :D
Basically my experience with Adam Smasher in Cyberpunk.
Ain’t no way he didn’t see them first 2 guys behind those pillars
Lmao true that
Came to say this.
Thats why he walked in :)
I'm sure he did when he opened the door, we didn't see them though.
They were going around the pillars as he was entering. Must've looked ridiculous from the main villain's perspective. Maybe that's why he was smiling:D
Preston wins. Flawless Victory. Fatality.
FINISH HIM
* twack*
Falality.
*Faceality.
Brutality
Lol let's get Riddick
Damn imagine if he's a Mortal Kombat character
Remember, when Preston and Brandt were sparring earlier in the film, Preston was still adjusting to having emotions, and the point was not to kill each other. Preston has years of experience and is basically the top of the Clerics in terms of skill and operational records, even after he shows off why, Brandt is still cocky. He's expecting a similar fight to the spar, only he is totally unprepared for Preston in Tranquil Fury mode with the intent to kill.
Also, IIRC, Diggs (Brandt's actor) needed to jump to his next project and the filming had gone a little longer than expected, hence the quick resolution to his fight. It does a nice job setting up the fight with Dupont, though.
I always thought this part was supposed to a bit of a humorous thing. About halfway through the movie, you see Preston and Brandt dueling and being on equal footing. Near the end, Preston charges down the hallway killing dozens of guard like some sort of unstoppable killing machine. He is then confronted by Brandt, leading the viewer to believe that we're about to see the epic showdown of two martial artists pulling out all stops. But nope. Fight's over in a matter of seconds.
Creators were like: Oh, you thought you were going to see a cool fight? Psyche!
Preston was just sparing with him. This time around he wanted to kill the non feeling bastard.
Chris Jackson He's way low level compare to him. Bale is even better than his Boss.
o well it's all to prep up for the fight afterwards anyways
Xylarxcode Kinda like Indiana Jones when he just shoots the swordsman.
When he fought the black guy the first time, Preston was feeling ( the black guy also feels, like the father and most of the people in power) so they were on equal grounds. But as we seen in the previous clip where Preston is on that machine, he manages to stop all his feelings and become what he was, a Grammaton Cleric with no feelings, better then everyone. Thats why the Father wanted to get rid of him, cause only Preston could bring down the corrupt government.
I'll never get tired of watching this movie.. Couple of times, every year.
Anyone notice that at 1:35 he drops the sword, yet at 1:37 he is still holding it?
Lol
Lol ididdnt see that
Nice catch, looks goofy af
He obviously picked it up in case he still need it.
I saw nothing because there were no mistakes in this movie. Not. One.
huh.... actually have not noticed that before... nice catch... this movie has a lot of continuity errors haha
"See what you made me do? All you had to do was give me a reservation at Dorsia!"
"Sean calls at five from the Racquet Club and tells me to meet him at Dorsia tonight. He just talked to Brin, the owner, and reserved a table at nine. My mind is a mess. I don’t know what to think or how to feel."
He was afraid that he might lose face in front of his master...
Naeloo Pardayan ha ha
Ba'dooomp TTSHSHSHSHSHSH!!!
Back when people had doubts about Christian Bale being a good enough Batman, I had already watched this movie and would always mention it to point out how he would be just fine. He did great.
Back when I was a DC fan!
Very underrated film. Not gonna win any oscars. but entertainment at its finest, unique story and cool action. 👍🏻
you mom is gonna win an Oscar for carrying you!
@@playlist4637 o.......k........?
@@playlist4637 what does that even mean
@@jackrobinson1073 I have no fukin clue!
Gun-Kata is cheesy, hilarious and badass all at the same time. Saw this movie 3minutes ago and it's fantastic. It has an important message.
" You're all alone."
" I'm Batman."
And not a single drop of blood on Bale's white suit after such blood splattering sword fight. Gotta love it!
1yanga That's a clean job he did.
1yanga also no blood on his sword! Even after cutting through flesh and solid bone
In theory, when an extremely skilled and fast bladesman with an extremely sharp blade, you will not see blood splatter until the body parts hit the ground.
He dodged all the blood drops as they were flying through the air thats why
Blood proof suit
This movie is still The Most Underrated Action Movies all times!
Sub Zero i agree with this sentiment... I’d almost say its the Grandfather to the John Wick movies
Ted Litschauer you are on point.
It's a shame that this movie open the same time as Matrix. Didn't stand a chance
It is a shame , it is still under the Radar. It definily had the potential to become cult. One of my favourite Films.
@Seth Organs lmao called out!
“I want to take his face ... off.”
- Christian Bale before fighting that guy.
“You know how to fight six men. We can teach you how to engage six hundred.”
Wrong movie lmao
I see what you did there
@@definitelynotyuribezmenov7611 - Well now I kinda wanna watch it though... what's the movie?
@@yomomz3921 it's the dark knight trilogy
It looks like he couldn't (*puts on sunglasses*) FACE the truth... YEEAAAAHHH!
thank you for this comment xD
LATJ?
Hate to see a man lose face like that.
Dammit, CSI strikes again.
Let's *FACE* it he was never gonna beat Christian Bale.
He wants to take his face...off...
+100nitrog It's like....looking in a mirror...only..not
No more drugs for that man.
Peaches, I can eat peaches for hours.
kudos for that reference.
Face... OFF!
I only just noticed a really subtle but awesome little detail in this fight. It happen so quick I've never noticed it before!
0:53
When he's fighting the guards, the second 'sword' he grabs is actually just a sheath for a sword, which seconds later he uses to block an attack, which slices the sheath into a sharp point which he then uses to stab someone. That's bloody awesome.
Good eye! I've seen this movie tons of times and not until this comment did I notice that too, thanks!
Are you slow?
@@playlist4637 Did it take you 3 years to come up with that insult?
I always thought the tripping of an opponent with a sword was stupid in this scene. Now that I see that he actually trips him with the sheath it makes much more sense! This just proves what a genius film this is. Making that fight scene must have taken weeks of training to get everything perfect.
Great eye Peter!
Just seeing this after 20yrs
Before: "Face Off," Ahh, as in an epic showdown.
After: Yeah, no, he _literally_ took his face off.
“How do you feel Preston?”
“ I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip”
Omg it even has a water mark
i feel vengeance, i am batman!!
I love the look on Robert the Bruce's face. It's like he's thinking, "This isn't going to be pleasant,".
Hahaha....
I understood that *BRAVEHEART* reference!
Very nice!!!
1:48 I CAN'T FEEL MY FACE WHEN I'M WITH YOU
+Bolensgoldrush that was a terrible joke
@@andrewkomaniecki480 But you love it......
But he dont lov it
1:37 he drops the sword, 1:38 he's still holding it as he falls
They didn't care lmao
I saw that too . What a mistake .
I don't think that's the sword 🧐
Hey yeah good spot
Its the scabbard
@@woodlandbiker he didn’t took the sheath with him it was still in the sword stand on the table
That’s one way to wipe a smile off of someone’s face.
Joker laughs at this🤣
When your challenged to a face-off and you literally slice the dudes face-off...
1:32 - It looks like we are about to see...
(puts on sunglasses)
A real Face-Off...
YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH DAAAAN DAN DAN DUN
Sharp pun.
Edgy, isn't it?
Illya Benkard Oh cut it out, you guys.
Alright we shall cut the joke.
Illya Benkard Straight to the point with that pun.
All things considered, this movie still holds up pretty well. If Hollywood didn't screw up adaptations and sequels so much, I'd say this film deserves one/
Nah. It doesn't need an adaptation. I mean. We got Sean Bean in it.
We need him.
Usually there would be a huge fight sequence resulting in severe injuries in both sides, but that’s exactly where Equilibrium takes us by surprise.
5 seconds is all it takes. Wow
I love the swordfight scene, because it's in absolute contrast to the absurdity of the gunfighting. Real swordfighting isn't clashing and clanging of blades and pirouetting around (which is what the gunfighting is). It's over in seconds and you pretty much get taken out of the fight by a single blow.
"I can't beat two of your pawns?" Batman Begins' quote seems to fit here.
Christian Bale is a great actor, hands down, love all his movies.
The world needs someone like this now.
Best thing about this scene is that the real point was that Bale's character was just playing Diggs earlier in the movie. He could have killed him at any moment.
And then he did.
I love how there's two people standing RIGHT NEXT to him only hiding from the camera
"Mind the uniform, cleric. I plan to be wearing it for a long time."
Cleric: Silently cuts his guns and face off with three strokes of the blade.
What makes this movie unique is how it plays with cliches in general. Same with "romantic" theme between Preston and Mary. It's cut right before you start to worry it will lead to yet another sob story in (so far) badass movie, with no happy ending :) What a relief.
When your level 70 character fights several level 20.
Too much confidence and underestimated his enemy. That is why he died so quickly
Now the diligent observer might catch him stabbing a dude with a hilt at 1:01 which is silly. But the astute observer will see him using the sword thrust of an opponent and the blocking action to sharpen that same hilt to a proper stake at 0:57. Brilliant.
Amazing detail, I noticed the hilt at 1:01 and thought it was just a goof!
Cool observation, but I think you meant scabbard
Or "Saya" if you want to go full Internet pedant.
@@KUTProductions nobody likes smartasses.
nice observation man... need to play the clip at 0.5 speed to see the details @@
I just barely heard of this movie today so rented it and can't believe a movie this good was not talked about my whole life lol
This could have had Matrix-level fight scenes, but instead of making very deliberate camera decisions, they just did circles around the actors and edited them together without any thought. I wonder how Yuen Wo Ping would have done it.
Idk man the action sequences in this movie are pretty awesome
It really is a shame
@@mauz791 Well, considering that this movie only had 1/3 of the budget of "The Matrix" I think the fight scene are quite OK.
This film is better than the Matrix though. The Matrix is a stolen idea from the pilot episode of Star Trek the original series. Its called 'The Cage.'
@@245-TRIOXIN Calling it "stolen" is a bit far fetched. It's not as if all Star Trek stories were original. All screen writers get inspiration from somewhere and the Matrix was inspired by the "allegory of the cave" by Plato as well as biblical stories and other sources that predate Star Trek by millenia.
“There he goes. One of God’s own prototype’s. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”-Hunter S. Thompson
Tread softly, for you tread upon my dreams.
When your colleague has a better business card
That little "emotional" smile that John gives us at this moment is just pure genius.
lol, i just realised that after getting cut up the guns drop, his KATANA drops but when he's falling on his knees you can clearly see him still holding the katana.
nice one lol
Oh man! Now I cannot unsee that! Its like Neo holding on to his cables all over again.
So many mistakes in this movie
Well that's one way to wipe the smirk off his face...
It was an awesome film when I first saw it in early 2000’s and I’ve watched it countless times since - entertaining and thought-provoking plus excellent fight scenes and music
When you think you are Blade but gets your face cut in half in less than 3 seconds.
Before John Wick, there was John Preston. That’s all I needed to know.
When Robert the Bruce and his katana wielding henchmen decide to take on batman.
He has played Robert the Bruce twice now. I just found that out the other day. scored his own movie.
Thats where I remembered him lol
Jeeze I wish Christian Bale would go back to doing action films instead of dramas. He’s so good at it.
He's playing a villian in the upcoming Thor 4 movie😁
This is such an underrated movie. As an enthusiast of swords I could nitpick all sorts of things with the fight scenes, but truth is there is more to a film than that. I saw this movie once, a while ago, and to this day I'm haunted by the death of that lady who was arrested in the film. All I can say is if you hadn't seen this film, see it. It is good.
Very good.
This is like when you play Pokémon, skip the early trainers in the very beginning of the game, and then come back when all your Pokémon are level 100
One of my favorite movie quotes, "Mind the uniform, cleric..."
1:37 he drops the sword then has it right back in his hand lol
Well spotted! Missed that one.
@bukhalo the black guys sword
@@buhklao it’s the guy with the black suit
🤣
0:17 so he just didn’t see those guys chillin there
Tunnel vision
Oh he did. Those guys are just idiots 🤣
"He never learned to mind his surroundings"!
That sound effect when he slices off his face just baffles me everytime. It's like an artificial sound.
Yes I remember this movie with great fighting choreography .and the birth of gun cotter .. awesome movie and a rise of a star.
As beautiful and amazing as this movie was, there was _no way_ those men were hiding there. They clearly weren't standing behind the pillars, because with the direction the shadows were being cast, either their bodies or their shadows would have been visible. That doesn't even mention the two guys that were standing there right next to Preston, in full view, assumedly saying with their eyes "just act like we're not here."
He knows they are there and knows he can take them down hence he has no fear
I liked the guy who said pillars were hollow with sliding doors for sneaky guards.
Impressive, very nice, let’s see Paul Allen’s martial arts skills.
Changing the subject, this movie is an underrated masterpiece.
Really funny thing about this scene is he made sure other guy's uniform was damaged before putting him to sleep.
Title of the video: “Face Off”
Me: You clever SOB
Who needs swords when you have guns
Thank god Christian didn't give up acting after this like he talked about....this is such an unappreciated gem of a film.
That room DEFINITELY looks like a boss room
Can't stand their blinging 'music' after every clip of theirs... dunno why it just pisses me off ~
+crowviking That outro is downright fucking annoying.
James Yeow
Thanks James! Its a relief to know I'm not the only one lol
Ch Pe In this case you are perverted ...
goddamn right
@1:36 you see Brandt drop the sword but @1:38 you can see he is still holding it as he falls.
Always have your thumb on your Tsuba.
- Shogo, Mini Katana
The silly thing about this movie is that, seeing as nobody has emotions, nobody would care if they find out someone did...
yeah, makes no sense. If the government could control emotions, they would simply give everyone docile happiness.
Unless the thinking is that it’s a violation of a law, so even if they don’t care it’s about the order that needs to be maintained.
It's even worse, the government is controlled by automatons who will execute any order and maintain law without any kind of remorse and second thoughts.
He drops his sword, but then it appears again in his hand when he falls to his knees, what a wizard he must be
0:49 *DARK SLAYER*
1:41 You are not worthy as my opponent.
The katanas are displayed incorrectly the cutting edge should be facing up to prevent damage to the cutting edge.
Top 5 favourite movies of all time - Loved Christian Bale in this movie way before he became Batman.
Total Zatoichi style...never gets old.
yes yes tamagotchi style..
0:20 how awkward those 2 guards would feel when they can clearly see him walking into the room but had to stay at the back untill he starts to walking again....
The most impressive thing is how no blood got on his suit from cutting down all those people
He was too pissed off to mess around. Dude was completely over their nonsense. He was all business and had no time for nonsensical quips.
"Ступай осторожней, потому что ты идёшь по моим мечтам! "😉👍