Equilibrium

I found that the movie Equilibrium was oddly similar to Orwell’s 1984, but it also showed similarities to Huxley’s Brave New World. The main difference between Equilibrium and the other two works of literature is the enormous amount of action and violence on the part of Christian Bale. According to a few other blogs, Bale's total kill count is around 118. Seeing as the movie is only 107 minutes long, one can calculate his average kill per minute (I'll denote this as akpm) as roughly 1.1 kpm. After crunching those numbers, it's clear that the movie is pure madness, but just because its violence is gratuitous, one should not dismiss the plot as being senseless.
As I mentioned before, the action can be a tad much, and there are a few poorly-done scenes involving Bale's annoyingly precocious children, but overall it is an entertaining movie, one that makes a valient attempt at predicting a dystopic future. The idea that the government will force society to take pills that curb emotion is not too unimaginable considering some of the pharmaceutical products that exist today (think Ritalin). Equilibrium's Prozium is akin to Huxley's Soma, and in both works there are protagonists who learn to resist or escape the drug's effects. The ideas presented in Brave New World and 1984 are fused into one in Equilibrium, where the government not only forces the drugs upon people, but also monitors all activity in a Big Brother fashion.
Ultimately, there is an enjoyable movie beneath all of the frequent exposions and matrix-style fight scenes. The film was enjoying to watch, and even more enjoyable to spoof.