9 easy, the combat scenes alone are some of the best on screen action of the 2000s era up until the john wick franchise and the sci fi dystopian setting feels believable and is conveyed in a plausible way
"Look at those subtle, elegant moves. Swift but powerful. Oh my god - he doesn't even blink!" **starts to shake and sweat** **changes fancy cleric gun to melee mode** "HeY ALLen!!!1"
I loved the fact that the end villain is almost as skilled as the hero. He wasn't some mook. Really surprised me to see Father pull out the gun kata moves.
@@DarkShooter942 No, it was the height of hypocrisy was the point at the end. The bad guy at the top didnt take prozium but he expected everyone else to. It was a grift.
There is a scene in which he was shown to be a veteran cleric and a gun kata instructor for other clerics. And honestly, seeing how the original Father was secretly dismissed, I think he was the one to first free himself from Prosium and leading a revolt that ended in Father's death. Unlike Preston however, without Prosium he couldn't resist your average joe human temptations. He got drunk with power and possibilities and simply took over, kept things the way they were. Preston was different. He had a real grudge against the system. He wanted freedom and feelings for more than just himself.
It's not action movie. It's much more. It raises timeless questions and problems of society vs individuals, power, justice, emotions and so much more. Jürgen resonates really strong with me. After many years Equilibrium is even more relevant than before.
3:03 I love how they put a piece of JPG or whatever image format available of that guy's face in front of him 😂 That shot gets me every time I rewatch this movie!
@@chrisflaherty8991 You're right, if I was an idiot, I wouldn't want to talk to an intelligent person with good taste in films either. Enjoy your taste in films, Helen Keller
V for Vendetta was unwatchable. Pure unadulterated leftist ultra-propaganda. At least movies like this leave the villains ambiguous rather than attempting to make some political point.
I love how both of them never pulled their arm back to shoot from the hip as you should do from that close range... They fought for 2 minutes just to have their arms straight in order to shoot 😂😂😂
This move was severely underrated... If you guys have not seen his film "Hostiles", it deserves a watch... Criminally underrated... You are all welcome!!
Everyone talks about how underrated this movie is, I came here to say this, they are indeed correct. I'm glad I had this one friend who suggested this movie to me.
The only reason this movie didn't follow the Matrix's lead to legendary status was the "Trenchcoat Mafia" craze and the beginning of the school shooting culture that we find ourselves unfortunately desensitized to today. Equilibrium was and is a masterpiece that suffered from bad timing, but at least we still got to learn that Christian Bale is a master of his craft through his perseverance of amazing performances throughout his career!
Uh, no. The Matrix was blamed for the murders at Columbine by the media initially. Equilibrium, release a full 3 years later and not getting a wide release flopped because, A. It was looked upon as a Matrix rip-off. B. Because most thought the Gun-Kata gig was silly. It has since become a cult classic and rightly so.
I have never really understood how the tides of the rebellion shifted instantly. Yes, he breaks the "father" facade, destroys the sharade. But the members of the grammaton police force were relentless and unstoppable. Suddenly, the rebels manage to take them by surprise and overpower them all around the place. Am I the only one?
Yes, it's over simplified and way fast forwarded. More like a drama scene. The rebellions should have like 10 times of that number to make it believable.
It is the enclosing message, but in general while the plot is interesting, the final wrap up is rushed and Rambo-styled with 1 person eliminating bazillion on their own which is silly.
Black guy had two gun, but went for the sword. Have to assume he was feeling as well, as I can't imagine an unemotional person making such a decision, as such a person would not be driven by ego.
One of the absolute best films of all time. And especially this story, related to our time and world today ... absolutely up to date. Where are the true and genuine feelings today ? Displaced by cold and heartless efficiency, intolerance and stupidity. This film, this story is the story of today. Stay alert ♠️
Oof methinks you missed the point. It's about centralized thought policing driven by narcissism and demagoguery, not intolerance, efficiency, and empty emotions. You need to go a level deeper. The leader wasn't intolerant of persons but of lack of control.
Very underrated movie, one of my favs. But it has always puzzled me on why he didn't look left and up in a "wtf just happened" kinda of way instead of right 🤔
One of the most underrated movies which i still consider one of my favourite actions movies, i actually enjoyed it more than the matrix, its ironic 2 dacades later its still got a huge fan base and a cult following and it relates to alot of things that are going on now.
That's true, but neutral absolute chaos is better than evil perfect order. An evil nation that has mastered control over its people is very difficult to create, but it is also equally difficult to destroy. Now that it is gone, it gives the world a chance to reach a decent government and stop new bad governments. It's also damn near impossible to beat this kind of government in any other way. Systematic change is out of question, and the fact that it only has one head is its biggest weakness. Without that, it's damn near impossible to break the government. The only other option they really had was to convert that guy into being good, but that's still absurdly hard. This was the best outcome they had.
@Jack Squat it's the other way around. Because JW pretends to be set in the real world while Gun Fu is at least some futuristic dystopian art that has had a long time to be developed. The fights in JW are possibl less realistic than these.
It's 2023 and we need him and about 1000 more just like him. The US, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. All are progressively more ridden with the cancer of leftism, which unfailingly winds up at a dictatorship.
The fact the he EASILY beats them without a single scratch or a hand lay on him.. Every other movie have the hero struggling to beat the bad guys and the final boss..but this guy just just made easy work on all of them..
Great premise; unfortunately a crap film. Not trying to troll its fans, we all like what we like. But I bought this on DVD after reading the cool-sounding description on the back, and... very disappointed.
Only recently I noticed that he didn't fought with two swords, but with a sword and scabbard. And in the final part he intentionally let one of his opponents to cut it, so he could stab the final enemy with it.
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Hi everyone! What grade (out of 10) would you give this video?
12
I say it's a 6.5 to 7.0
The fight choreography is painfully cartoonish, and the costuming is on the bargain basement side.
9 easy, the combat scenes alone are some of the best on screen action of the 2000s era up until the john wick franchise and the sci fi dystopian setting feels believable and is conveyed in a plausible way
9 out of 10
10 +
As a security guard at Target I can testify that this is exactly how we are trained.
😂
Then why has there been so much shoplifting and sexual harassment acrossed your franchise.
Clown shoes.
@@jimthompson8947 Well, that’s because your mom shops there. Obviously
I believe it. Sitting back watching movies sounds like exactly how security guards at target are trained. 😂
@@IrelandVonVicious 😆👍🙋🏻♂️
Now let's see Paul Allen's gun kata.
boring
@@cdtv3602i dont get how an npc comment like this gets all the likes. Everything online is fake and bots or people are more stupid than ever
"Look at those subtle, elegant moves. Swift but powerful. Oh my god - he doesn't even blink!"
**starts to shake and sweat**
**changes fancy cleric gun to melee mode**
"HeY ALLen!!!1"
😁
Bonest, meat, Bone, meat, bonest
He could free the world from totalitarianism, but he could not save Sean Bean from his fatal curse.
There are few who can.
@@wickywills Not even Viggo Mortensen's Aragorn could do that. 🥲
He cheated death so many times as major Sharpe the reapers now collecting his dues.
Sean usednup all his extra lives in the Sharpe series
Sean Bean is expensive
Hugely underrated film. One of Bale's best.
Один из самых лучших фильмов, несомненно!
and really bad choreography that’s hidden by editing but yeah
Correct ! and LEna Olin was captivating1
It's a pretty terrible movie, but for some reason watchable.
Put down the refer.@@mastermcginnis
I loved the fact that the end villain is almost as skilled as the hero. He wasn't some mook. Really surprised me to see Father pull out the gun kata moves.
According to the story he was also once a Cleric.
It was the only parr I didn't like. His old partner should have been the last fight
He was probably able to suppress his emotions without Prozium, even if only did it when he had no choice but to fight by himself
@@DarkShooter942 No, it was the height of hypocrisy was the point at the end. The bad guy at the top didnt take prozium but he expected everyone else to. It was a grift.
There is a scene in which he was shown to be a veteran cleric and a gun kata instructor for other clerics. And honestly, seeing how the original Father was secretly dismissed, I think he was the one to first free himself from Prosium and leading a revolt that ended in Father's death. Unlike Preston however, without Prosium he couldn't resist your average joe human temptations. He got drunk with power and possibilities and simply took over, kept things the way they were. Preston was different. He had a real grudge against the system. He wanted freedom and feelings for more than just himself.
At 3:03 you can see Brandt’s cut off face on the floor and if you look close you’ll see that’s not Christian Bale but his stunt double in this frame.
Haha, unless Bale gained 40 lbs in 2 seconds, I think you are right.
"Sometimes I let him do the wide shots" - Lucas Lee about his stunt double
why would they use a stunt double for the frame of Christian just standing there ????
@@frantisekbabic9683 reshoots, perhaps. Bale was probably already off to his next role by then.
I love how it's just a printed out picture of his face xD
This is a very underrated movie with great acting and action
it was an absolute crupfest
@@JamesJoyce12 You're an absolute crumpet.
Ba ha ha underrated!!
It sure is
Probably my favourite movie
It's not action movie. It's much more. It raises timeless questions and problems of society vs individuals, power, justice, emotions and so much more. Jürgen resonates really strong with me. After many years Equilibrium is even more relevant than before.
And US is under highway to the same dictatorship country
True especially with the drug to not feel. Amazing movie.
Fucking Right
The biggest downside to being a gun kata master is going deaf after your first fight.
What?
HUH?
we've had john wick loooong before we had john wick.
this is such an underrated movie, underrated actor and underrated everything.
Christian Bale is one of the most respected actors in Hollywood. How is he underrated?
3:03
I like how the cut off face is literally a paper cut out in this shot.
🤣😭
that's great, i never caught that. they could have at least smeared a little blood around it on the floor or something. too funny.
never noticed… face is in perfect condition and 2d 😂😂
@@baneblackguard584 They actually did. There's a smear going down from the face towards the body. There just isn't a whole lot of blood.
Hahaha 😂
For those who can't find it, it is at bottom right of the X mark.
holy shit thats genius
"I pay it gladly" love that line.
And those references to the Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Equilibrium was a great movie , way ahead of its time
Yup we are starting the beginning of this era. There is no stopping it for right now either.
The dipensing with Taye Diggs' character in literally 3 seconds is my favorite part
3:03 LOLOLOL you can see the sliced off face on the floor XD
OMFG LOOOOL
LMFAO
LMAOOOOOOOOOO yooooooo i never even noticed that...thats fucking hilarious
LMFAO nice !
😂😂😂😂😂😂
One of my favourite dystopia films. I just cannot get why it was (according to me) so horribly underrated.
And that was the moment he became... Batman.
I love Christian Bale.
And I know him since "Empire of the Sun".
And he became thee Bat Man.
We need him in the real world right now more than ever.
Lmfao what 😂
Indeed.
I am working on it.
Absolutely
No, we don’t.
3:03 I love how they put a piece of JPG or whatever image format available of that guy's face in front of him 😂 That shot gets me every time I rewatch this movie!
One of the Best casted movies ever. Cant see anyone else playing the characters in this movie other than who was casted.
Not the hero we wanted but the hero we deserved.
Great catch!
🤣🤣🤣
🦇🦇🦇
This is an underrated masterpiece. Not perfect, but no masterpiece ever is.
If this is a masterpiece, I struggle to imagine what an actual good movie is to you.
If you don't think it's one there's no sense talking to you.
@@chrisflaherty8991 You're right, if I was an idiot, I wouldn't want to talk to an intelligent person with good taste in films either. Enjoy your taste in films, Helen Keller
@@yggybeats You, too, Stevie Wonder
@@chrisflaherty8991 Eh, mine was better
Equilibrium & V for Vendetta are 2 of the GREATEST 'anti-oppression' Movies ever done! 🤔
Harrison Bergeron was the movie that started me thinking about how we are oppressed,
V for Vendetta was unwatchable. Pure unadulterated leftist ultra-propaganda. At least movies like this leave the villains ambiguous rather than attempting to make some political point.
Really antiwoke movies!
Indeed. These are not made anymore because our authoritarian regimes don’t want to give us any ideas…
Demolition Man is far better because it's so much more accurate to the tyranny currently taking hold of our civilization.
I love that you can still see Brandt's face on the ground at 3:04 😂
I never noticed 😂
Not only that u can see Christian bale's body double standing it's too goofy
I love how both of them never pulled their arm back to shoot from the hip as you should do from that close range... They fought for 2 minutes just to have their arms straight in order to shoot 😂😂😂
True but It was fun to watch anyway
Gotta have suspension of disbelief to be entertained
@@TheKb117 with the amount of disbelief suspended here, the rope might just snap
the rule of cool
its not part of the Gun-Kata way my duude
Before John Wick, we had this 👍☺️.
SUCH a good movie! And also very under-appreciated by a large margin.
Truly one of the most under-rated sci fi action films. Christian Bale can do anything 😃👍
I think its funny how in movies everyone is immediately dead the very moment he gets hit
Yeah, strangely most people don't really like to watch a realistic death struggle of living beings. Odd, isn't it?
This move was severely underrated... If you guys have not seen his film "Hostiles", it deserves a watch... Criminally underrated... You are all welcome!!
Одна из лучших сцен с финальным поединком. Никаких долгих нудных речей - сразу битва👍
Наруто нервно курить в сторонке😂😂😂
@@esdeath89 Наруто, где каждый поединок идет 2-3 часа)))
Everyone talks about how underrated this movie is, I came here to say this, they are indeed correct. I'm glad I had this one friend who suggested this movie to me.
The only reason this movie didn't follow the Matrix's lead to legendary status was the "Trenchcoat Mafia" craze and the beginning of the school shooting culture that we find ourselves unfortunately desensitized to today. Equilibrium was and is a masterpiece that suffered from bad timing, but at least we still got to learn that Christian Bale is a master of his craft through his perseverance of amazing performances throughout his career!
Tears of the sun
Uh, no. The Matrix was blamed for the murders at Columbine by the media initially. Equilibrium, release a full 3 years later and not getting a wide release flopped because, A. It was looked upon as a Matrix rip-off. B. Because most thought the Gun-Kata gig was silly.
It has since become a cult classic and rightly so.
@@reidycruise : Empire of the Sun 👍
Mind the uniform, I plan to be wearing it for a long time…
Preston: *what a strange request to be buried in those clothes*
That League of Shadows training paid off.
I have never really understood how the tides of the rebellion shifted instantly. Yes, he breaks the "father" facade, destroys the sharade. But the members of the grammaton police force were relentless and unstoppable. Suddenly, the rebels manage to take them by surprise and overpower them all around the place. Am I the only one?
Yes, it's over simplified and way fast forwarded. More like a drama scene.
The rebellions should have like 10 times of that number to make it believable.
You're not the only one, alot of this movie makes very little sense
You've got to take a higher than normal dose of Suspension of Disbelief for this movie but if you can manage it, it's still pretty good overall.
@@lordtrinen2249 oh I absolutely love it, I've seen it many times (it's also my first movie in which Sean Bean dies).
It is the enclosing message, but in general while the plot is interesting, the final wrap up is rushed and Rambo-styled with 1 person eliminating bazillion on their own which is silly.
Patrick Bateman is in another level rn! Damn! 😅
When Valve Software Saw This in 2002:
Maybe we can do this on Half-Life 2.
*Freedom is priceless.*
This is a great and wonderful movie! An action drama very underated but truly a piece of ART. Só much Fun with deep reflections.
One of the best fight scene of Christian bale did. Great movie 💯
5:10 did each one of those guys have a vacuum cleaner bag stuffed in their trench coats?
Just about spit my breakfast out at this comment, I love this movie but damned if you arent spot on.
LOL I laughed pretty hard when I went back to watch.......
This scene was awesome because you were expecting a long drawn out fight scene but he just straight up wrecked them all lmao
The movie where I became a Christian Bale fan. I will give it a 7.5/10
Love how the muzzle flashes are the shape of the regime's logo.
Such an awesome and underrated movie
This was way before John Wick and is actually really good.
One of the best movies of all time ❤
Destroys a few monitors, everything breaks down 😂
This is actually a really good movie. Bought it years ago in the Walmart bin of dvds
Black guy had two gun, but went for the sword. Have to assume he was feeling as well, as I can't imagine an unemotional person making such a decision, as such a person would not be driven by ego.
1:52 is how I feel when I'm trying to peel the edge of cling film
The important part is that the puppy lived
Really overdue for a sequel, this movie. I'd be interested in knowing what happens after the rebels take over
One of the best comedies ever.
One of the absolute best films of all time.
And especially this story, related to our time and world today ... absolutely up to date.
Where are the true and genuine feelings today ?
Displaced by cold and heartless efficiency, intolerance and stupidity.
This film, this story is the story of today.
Stay alert ♠️
Oof methinks you missed the point. It's about centralized thought policing driven by narcissism and demagoguery, not intolerance, efficiency, and empty emotions. You need to go a level deeper. The leader wasn't intolerant of persons but of lack of control.
I remember that when I saw batman begins for the first time my reaction was: "hey!!! The equilibrium Neo is going to be the Batman"
Very underrated movie, one of my favs.
But it has always puzzled me on why he didn't look left and up in a "wtf just happened" kinda of way instead of right 🤔
One of the most underrated movies which i still consider one of my favourite actions movies, i actually enjoyed it more than the matrix, its ironic 2 dacades later its still got a huge fan base and a cult following and it relates to alot of things that are going on now.
"Keanu Reeves calls his Martial Art style in the John Wick movies Gun Fu." No my friend, this is Gun Fu 1:49
Gravity was like, what happened? Oh, right, face off.
How bad could a dystopian future be, if you're learning history from Sean Pertwee?
In its own way, it's like Alfred is teaching Batman all over again
Maybe this is those years Bruce Wayne went missing from Gotham?...
0:25 "I'm gonna enjoy this."
That was the best movie I ever saw .
3:04 face on the ground...nice touch
The most amazing part about this scene is that he killed so many men without a single drop of blood on his white suit. Now, that is an amazing skill.
Um, there was some blood on his right collar, near the end of this scene
Continuity... the continuity of never running out of bullets in movies always made me laugh 😂
He didn’t really free the world.
He just created a large power vacuum
Indeed. And since the nature of man kind is corruption and violence, one form has been replaced with another.
Rather libertarian, isn't it? 😉 Whatever eventually fills that vacuum, at least it will be based on humans being human.
This movie has more democracy than america.
That's true, but neutral absolute chaos is better than evil perfect order. An evil nation that has mastered control over its people is very difficult to create, but it is also equally difficult to destroy. Now that it is gone, it gives the world a chance to reach a decent government and stop new bad governments.
It's also damn near impossible to beat this kind of government in any other way. Systematic change is out of question, and the fact that it only has one head is its biggest weakness. Without that, it's damn near impossible to break the government. The only other option they really had was to convert that guy into being good, but that's still absurdly hard. This was the best outcome they had.
@@Xendrius America was never a Democracy.
It was always a Democratic Republic.
10
0:46 the look on the face. 😂😂😂
Such an obscure, but underrated movie.
Interesting idea too - hand-to-hand combat with firearms.
If we only got a 🔫 fight like this in J. Wick.. Would've been so wicked 😩
@Jack Squat is it though? I'd argue JW is cornier than this.
@Jack Squat it's the other way around. Because JW pretends to be set in the real world while Gun Fu is at least some futuristic dystopian art that has had a long time to be developed. The fights in JW are possibl less realistic than these.
Bale throwing shade at John wick 😎.... Bale looking BADASS
The big mistake is assuming you’re on the side you think you’re on. Whichever side that is.
0:56: Mind the uniform, cleric. I plan to be wearing it for a long time.
Cleric: Slices his guns and his face off in five seconds
Masterpiece!
One of the best movies ever, and not exactly for the action, but the plot.
Watched the movie a long time ago. Great movie
This was an amazing, movie. It deserved so much more attention than it received. Too bad they can't bring Christian back and, do a sequel.
It's 2023 and we need him and about 1000 more just like him. The US, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. All are progressively more ridden with the cancer of leftism, which unfailingly winds up at a dictatorship.
Try ridden with right wing fascism
facts
The fact the he EASILY beats them without a single scratch or a hand lay on him..
Every other movie have the hero struggling to beat the bad guys and the final boss..but this guy just just made easy work on all of them..
Muito bom o filme
Severely underrated movie.
Such man is very needed for Russia, Belarus, and for most of post USSR countries.
😂😂😂 Какая наивность!
Alternate universe if Bruce Wayne became Kataman instead of Bataman
Great premise; unfortunately a crap film. Not trying to troll its fans, we all like what we like. But I bought this on DVD after reading the cool-sounding description on the back, and... very disappointed.
100% agree
The idea and even the beginning were pretty cool, but both the story and action scenes were super silly.
@@CD-kg9by I remember some scenes where Christian Bale is fighting dudes with machine guns, and they're firing straight into the ground. Horrendous.
@@papigringo5692 Don't forget the scene where he is surrounded by several armed soldiers and he kills them by by hitting them with his pistol grips...
Ahhh... Gun kata. Timeless.
This part is so good 1:00 I keep re-watching it 😂
3:05...all people dead from catana sword. During fight it was bloody EVERYWHERE..but no blood anywhere on floor after fight😂
This totalitarism man was so bad that he dared to mention the Caligula story as propaganda.
I always loved how cocky Diggs was after seeing what Bale had just done to the other guys lol.
I love how he actually did mind the uniform.
This scene made me think that destroying a monitor meant you destroyed the PC lol
This is my favorite Christian Bale movie
What about American Psycho
John Wick’s Sensei
Hard Boiled = the FIRST John Wick
Equilibrium = the SECOND John Wick
The gun scene is ridiculous and hilarious. So over the top.
😂😂😅😅
I'd pay it gladly to see this in the Cinema Again!!!!
Only recently I noticed that he didn't fought with two swords, but with a sword and scabbard. And in the final part he intentionally let one of his opponents to cut it, so he could stab the final enemy with it.
Dupont is a badass but his facial expression in these fights is hilarious
I said this years ago as a comment before UA-cam had ads 5:17 is what everyone wants to see