Equilibrium
Miramax Films | Release Date: December 6, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
33
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
8
Negative:
10
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38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
It's not only an ultraviolent, ludicrously inconsistent rip-off of Bradbury's idea, but it poisons the well for future efforts. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Equilibrium just happens to be a really bad comic book. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesManohla Dargis
An accidental entertainment, Equilibrium is a science-fiction pastiche so lacking in originality that if you stripped away its inspirations there would be precious little left. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Super- violent, super-serious and super-stupid. Read full review
25
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Equilibrium doesn't tread softly on our dreams; it tramples them. Read full review
20
VarietyDennis Harvey
Misses with its blowhard treatment of a silly, obvious script. Results might hazard "Battlefield Earth" comparison if new pic were a tad more fun. Read full review
20
Film ThreatDavid Grove
Since Equilibrium shamelessly rips off every Orwellian science fiction thriller in film history, what other reason is there besides sheer desperation for the film to be so stupidly violent? Read full review
10
Washington PostStephen Hunter
Equilibrium is like a remake of "1984" by someone who's seen "The Matrix" 25 times while eating Twinkies and doing methamphetamines. Read full review
10
Village VoiceDennis Lim
As this clueless, bulimic debacle madly regurgitates ideas and iconography from Lang to the brothers Wachowski, Leni Riefenstahl to L. Ron Hubbard, Ray Bradbury to Susan Faludi, it's not just Bale who has a hard time keeping a straight face. Read full review
0
The New York TimesElvis Mitchell
If someone left "1984," "Fahrenheit 451," "Brave New World," "Gattaca" and the Sylvester Stallone potboilers "Judge Dredd" and "Demolition Man" out in the sun and threw the runny glop onto a movie screen, it would still be a better picture than Equilibrium, a movie that could be stupider only if it were longer. Read full review
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