Equilibrium (2002)

Equilibrium rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.3/10· 358K votes

Rotten Tomatoes40%

Metacritic33%

TMDb7.05/10· 5K votes

With 40% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.3/10 on IMDb and 33/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been modest.

About Equilibrium

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.

Cast of Equilibrium

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  Christian Bale

  as John Preston

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  Emily Watson

  as Mary O'Brien

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  Taye Diggs

  as Brandt

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  Angus Macfadyen

  as DuPont

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  Sean Bean

  as Errol Partridge

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  Sean Pertwee

  as Father

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  Matthew Harbour

  as Robbie Preston

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  William Fichtner

  as Jürgen

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  Dominic Purcell

  as Seamus

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  David Hemmings

  as Proctor

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  Christian Kahrmann

  as Officer in Charge

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  John Keogh

  as Chemist

Equilibrium facts

Budget

$20M

Box office

$5.4M

Our take on Equilibrium

Kurt Wimmer's 2002 science-fiction thriller imagines a totalitarian future that keeps the peace by dosing its citizens with a drug that erases feeling, making any display of emotion a capital crime. One of the enforcers charged with hunting down offenders begins to feel again and turns against the very system he served. It's a sleek, stylized action film built around a striking gun-fu combat aesthetic, wrapped in familiar dystopian ideas about control and conformity. Best for viewers who want propulsive, choreographed action with a cold, ordered visual world, and who don't mind a story that prizes momentum and style over intricate world-building or subtlety.