Article: Equilibrium.(Video Recording Review) (video recording review)

Equilibrium 
Street 5/13 

Buena Vista, Thriller, $1.2 million, $65 VHS, $29.99 DVD, `R' for violence. Stars Christian Bale, Taye Diggs, Emily Watson, Sean Bean.

The Matrix meets 1984, on a budget. In this particular post-apocalyptic world, it has been deemed that all human feeling is the ultimate sin, and anything that evokes such feeling (this seems to include any colors besides black and white) must be destroyed. To enforce this is a Prozac-style drug called "Prozium" and a hierarchy of secret police, at the top of which are the "clerics," the most intelligent and well-trained fighters, who practice some type of gun-wielding Kung Fu. Preston (Bale) is the ...

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