Equilibrium

Just came across a wonderful film that came out in 2002. Starring Christian Bale, who excelled in American Psycho and later The Fighter, the flick is a winner!

Quick plot overview: In the future, long after the nuclear apocalypse, a "leader" has deemed that mankind must no longer go to war. The solution: Feelings lead to anger, anger leads to war, so feelings must be taboo. Thus he creates a futuristic society where feelings are forbidden.

Nice premise!

Of course, in order to enforce this bizarre rule, totalitarianism is required. Every citizen must take a daily injection to repress feelings. An all-powerful police force must ferret out the folks who dare have a feeling!

Bale is a super-cop who enforces the no-feeling rule. He has been trained to shoot and kill better than any kung-fu master, and to wipe out all those who dare have an emotion....without feeling a bit of remorse himself.

Now what if the hardy Christian, the cop par excellence, gets a feeling or two himself? Haha! Therein lies the story!

NO SPOILER.... but just imagine the anti-hero turning hero! And what about Christian's son? Will he turn his father in? After all, little kids are trained to turn in anyone who feels!

Remember some of the creative shoot-em-up scenes in The Matrix? The shooting scenes in this film are way better! Watch the main protagonist use guns, swords, and knives like no one else!

Grade of A..... A thinking person's action/sci-fi film! Just wonder how viewers will FEEL about this creative flick!

Haha.