Equilibrium Z1 Copia de The Matrix?

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Pues aunque no lo crean, parece que si fue una pelicula muy buena pero que fue censurada por el gobierno de Bush por ser antigobierno. Cada vez se ve mas que este Bush esta bastante mal de la cabeza.
Aqui les consegui una review, a ver como la ven...

Review of Equilibrium
Christian Bale, Emily Watson, and Taye Diggs star in this visionary and compelling science fiction action epic.

December 05, 2002 - Equilibrium is my favorite movie of 2002.


It feels uncomfortable even typing those words, as they sound like the typical soundbite blurb-speak that passes for so much of film criticism these days. But it's true: This medium-budgeted, futuristic action tale that arrives on screens with precious little fanfare is, to my mind, the best film I've seen all year.

It's a movie that thrilled and moved and deeply affected me when I got the chance to see it at a very early advance screening last July, and hasn't been out of my mind in the months since. I've been heaping praise on it for so many months – to friends, colleagues, family...pretty much anyone who'd listen – that it almost feels like I've written this review already.

Writer/director Kurt Wimmer has delivered an intelligent and honorable riff on such science fiction classics as George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, presenting a not-too-distant future where freedom has been traded for security (a timely subject these days!) through the State-mandated use of emotion-suppressing drugs. War and crime and hate are things of the past in Equilibrium's world, but so are art and creativity and love. This nightmare is presided over by the Big Brother-like dictator Father, and enforced by a quasi-religious order of "Clericks," whose incredible combat skills are unleashed on "sense offenders" who have gone off the drugs that keep the populace docile.

A terrifying future, to be sure, though not one without hope – especially when Clerick John Preston (Christian Bale, a much more impressive action hero here than he was fighting dragons in Reign of Fire) accidentally misses his drug dose and begins to feel for the first time. I hesitate to reveal much more about the plot of Equilibrium, jammed as it is with surprise and invention – suffice to say, this is an intellectual rollercoaster ride, as cerebral as it is visceral; both a bleak glimpse into a possible future and a stirring tribute to the indomitable human spirit.

Though the film gets immeasurable mileage out of its cinematography, stunning futuristic production design, and music (an awesome neo-Wagnerian choral score by Klaus Badelt, a frequent collaborator of Hans Zimmer), it's (not surprisingly) the performers who give the proceedings so much gravity. Bale has never been better, combining the sleek coldness that served him so well as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho with a heartbreaking portrayal of a man rediscovering his lost humanity (and paying for the recovery of that humanity: Wimmer cleverly has the violence become more intense and wrenching as Preston learns to feel again). Bale is strongly supported by Emily Watson (one of the most soulful actresses working today, here perfectly cast as a beautiful sense offender who spurs Preston's rebellion against the system), Taye Diggs (having a wicked good time as Preston's suspicious partner), and Angus MacFadyen (sinister and oddly mournful as the head Clerick). This is a cast who seem to be giving their all in the service of a brilliant script, and guided all the way by a superb director.

Since so much of the advance word on Equilibrium has centered around its potent action content, I feel the need to comment on that aspect: Besides being an exceptional film in any genre, it's also the action movie to beat for the year. One can easily imagine filmmakers like John Woo or the Wachowski Brothers watching Equilibrium and being stunned at how much Wimmer has upped the stakes in pure kinetic mayhem. The gunplay, hand-to-hand combat, and swordplay (yes – swordplay!) are so staggering in execution that – for this aspect alone – no self-respecting action fan can afford to miss this movie.

To draw this review to a close, the biggest compliment I can pay Equilibrium is this: I cannot wait to see it again. As a critic, I saw it for free the first time around, but – besides wanting to experience the film once more – I really want to "vote with my wallet" as a consumer and help this movie make the money it so richly deserves. Quite awhile back – long before seeing this film – I speculated to a friend what might have happened had the great Stanley Kubrick (God rest his soul!) decided, with his cinematic skill and intellectual weight, to make a kick-ass, post-Matrix action movie. Now I have the answer to that question, and the name of the movie is Equilibrium.

Yo por lo pronto le doy el beneficio de la duda y la voy a comprar.