2002 · action · sci-fi · thriller
Equilibrium
Directed by Kurt Wimmer1h 47m2002
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Our read: Equilibrium (2002) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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Skip it tonight — Bleak totalitarian worlds or heavy-handed emotion bans feel too dour tonight.
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