Equilibrium

After "The Matrix" was released, there was a competition to determine who could create the most elegant and incomprehensibly obscure pseudo-philosophical film with firearms and martial arts. "Equilibrium" is the apparent victor, since it had the courage to combine weapons and kickboxing into "gun-kata" in 2002. "Equilibrium" is a film that fuses the vilification of "THX 1148" with the totalitarian constraints of "Fahrenheit 451" of Play-Doh and white buttercream. Moreover, the battle sequence is so damn fantastic - considering how vague the plot is.

Christian Bale uses his "American Psycho" expression for most of the movie - a marble statue of progressively developing emotions that receives one of the finest "Oh crap" reactions in the history of action movies - when his character realizes that, yep, a horrible event might occur today.

Bale turns himself into a devastating cyclone, finally finding his way to the hypocritical fascist monarch of this numbed realm. The outcome is a perfectly messed-up film that we do not mind rewatching over and over again!

Year of Release: 2002

Stars: Christian Bale, Emily Watson, Taye Diggs

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 41%