Equilibrium with Christian Bale and Sean Bean. I remember seeing this movie a few years ago and finding it so stupid that I walked out of the room. Later it seemed that everyone who had seen the movie loved it, so I decided to sit down and watch the whole thing through to see what was so great about it. And I want that hour and 45 minutes of my life back. It's an unoriginal dystopian plot where people take drugs to suppress emotion and anyone who doesn't comply with the totalitarian dictates of the society are hunted down and executed. 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451 are but a few of the stories that this movie is influenced by. But I shouldn't be too harsh on unoriginality since sometimes people can take an old story and make it better, but sadly this was not so. The inconsistencies were just too big, they suppress emotions, then why do the people panic and shout and deliver speeches full of emotion? These people should be the easiest to spot but the elite agents sent to hunt down those with emotion don't seem to notice. The martial arts in this movie would be good if it wasn't just Christian Bale hitting and shooting people who don't fight back. The thing that makes these agents so deadly are their proficiency in martial arts, including gun kata, where one can learn to shoot everyone in a dark room because they know the statistically probable location of where everyone in that room is. Now if you go into a dark room and you know there's someone in there that you're going to shoot isn't there about a 1 in 180 chance (assuming this is only 2 dimensional and you're standing in the doorway) you'll hit them? Isn't that why the term "a shot in the dark" has meaning? They also know the probable trajectory of bullets and can dodge them using the powerful but effective technique of standing in the exact same spot while muzzle flash reveals your location. But the true strength of these agents lies not in their own training but the incorrect training of those they fight. Bale can kill an entire room full of snipers because rather than shooting him from a distance, they try to snipe him from an arms length away. And when the regular soldiers are smart enough to team up on him they surround him and let themselves get pistol whipped for a good minute without so much as throwing a punch.
To conclude, what the hell is wrong with you people? This is a bad movie, why do you watch it?