I found this movie absolutely awful
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Jakealope — 13 years ago(July 11, 2012 07:31 AM)
How about a Remake of 1984 except with Neo as Winston Smith & Alice from Resident Evil as Julia and O'Brien was really the head of the Umbrella Corporation. Endless fight scenes in the Ministry of Love until our heroic resistance face the final battle scene between O'Brien & his elite guard, where Winston & Julia dispatch them all with nanchuks and katanas.
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stardama69 — 13 years ago(July 17, 2012 08:40 AM)
"It was one of those movies that had a good concept and look to it yet ruined it all with endless mindless action sequences like some Hong Kong Kung Fu meets Rambo flick." Yeah, just like Inception.
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stardama69 — 13 years ago(July 17, 2012 09:55 AM)
People who accuse Equilibrium of being a rip-off of the Matrix 1) are mostly wrong, as there really aren't that many similarities and 2) don't realize Matrix itself can be considered as one of the biggest rip-offs of the last decades.
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ben-bradfield — 13 years ago(June 09, 2012 02:28 PM)
Jesus christ!! .is it not possible for people to just enjoy a movie for the idea that it sits upon?? Regardless of what you and your over opinionated peers feel it has ripped off .surely taking an idea and crafting into your own storyline is an art in itselfI would love to see the movies that you jumped up critic wannabees could churn out . Oh no you bunch of muppets have boring nine to five jobs and feel they need to make their mark on society by slagging off someone else's hard work. as though you could do better??..instead you just use your boring life as a gauge, whilst you sit feel jealous, and talk nonsense
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matthijsgdejong — 13 years ago(July 10, 2012 06:49 AM)
I'm utterly amazed about the high grade this movie got on IMDB. Ofcourse, its partially subjective and I do not LIKE all the movies with high grades, but even then I can normally UNDERSTAND why people like it.
Not with this movie. This is what makes me curious about what people do like about this movie. The plot is thin and filled with holes, unable to grap my attention. The fighting and other action scenes are never really cool. It surely is not a classic, and the story is not appealing at all. The characters are out there somewhere, but they do 'help' to narrate a proper story. In summary, a flat movie filled with mistakes.
The thing is that I like these kind of movies, thats what bothers me even more about the grade. What is so appealing? What is it that I don't see? Help me out here.
My biggest deviation between my grade and the 'IMDB-grade' this far was about two points. But I gave this movie a 3(a b-movie, not worth it to watch). -
Allsider — 13 years ago(August 26, 2012 04:39 PM)
Oh wow. I honestly thought this movie would have a 4/10, maybe 5/10 score on imdb, after watching.
It had potential, but that just went out the window 15 minutes before end. The final boss fight was so ridiculous, I sat with an open mouth, with no apprehension of how this ever could be intergraded into this type of movie.
Anyway, in the end, the movie felt empty, just another "bang, shoot, boom".
How.. why People don't stop to amaze me. -
dunnobutstill — 13 years ago(September 08, 2012 07:20 PM)
Yeah this was originally a long post, but I made it into a review. So I'm left to say with: I absolutely agree OP.
Hell it didn't have to be Matrix or Blade Runner, it would have been fine by me if it would have been all cheesy not taking itself seriously like Judge Dredd. But this mummer's farce? I really can't see any redeeming qualities to this movie, everything about it was awful. Well the acting was somewhat fair, if you want to blame the screenplay.
As it is, it was one of the worst movies I've ever seen 3/10.(PS not English so disregard my spelling/grammar please)
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country_woman — 13 years ago(September 14, 2012 10:01 AM)
Awful? It was worse than awful! It was a nullity, stunk, so bad it wasn't even bad.
Seriously, if you put together a 13-year old's understanding of 1984, with the Apple commercial of 1984, and cheapo Matrix ripoff tricks, this would be the result.
This must be Bale's worst performance. He usually does an American accent very well. In this movie he sounded as if he was imitating an imitation of a US accent.
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tb-sch — 11 years ago(August 12, 2014 02:51 AM)
That is probably the reason why so many people rate it that high - it pretends to be a clever movie, and therefore makes them feel equally clever, while in fact they are just watching a B-movie version of The Matrix.
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hecantune — 13 years ago(November 15, 2012 12:40 PM)
While the look, feel and and even the premise of the movie contained extraordinarily high levels of cheese, the story itself still managed to pull me in and keep me involved until the end.
Back off!
Way off!