Equilibrium (2002)
In honor of Oblivion being the number one movie in the country, I felt the time was right for tabbing a sci-fi movie as the Movie of the Week. Released in the wake of The Matrix, Equilibrium offers little in the form of innovation as it steals plot lines from several classic sci-fi stories. Regardless of it being a real mash up of stolen ideas, Equilibrium is an enjoyable viewing experience. Christian Bale stars as a priest/assassin who's duty in life is to hunt down people who can feel and kill them. Feeling has been outlawed by the Father and everyone who lives in Libria has to take vails of medicine so that won't feel. Bale's character sets out to overthrow the system and this becomes the major plotline of the movie. There is a gratuitous amount of action and since the majority of characters can't feel, there is a ton of over acting. This is the perfect B-movie to sit down for a couple of hours and have a few good laughs. The story is interesting and there's even a couple of small twists.
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