Christian Bales whacks Everyone with Style | Equilibrium Best Fights 🌀 4K

[@BoxofficeMoviesScenes]

Hi everyone! What grade (out of 10) would you give this video?

[@courtwright227]

A+

[@tokus420]

I’d give it a 10

[@mjfw10]

I give it a "Crock of $&it". Zero, point, ZERO.

[@omegaprowler3683]

Yes.

[@PostPatriot1978]

12

[@alexrussell6658]

Equilibrium! Was always surprised that it wasn’t a bigger hit. Loved this film so much I watched it twice in the cinema! Was so atmospheric and different than what was around at the time. Fight scenes were awesome too. Plus, Sean Bean!

[@KandyKane999]

Who dies once again. I actually watched the entire Sharpe series just to see him live...

[@pocketpunkie]

​@@KandyKane999Came to say this. Bean dies in literally every movie he is in. Almost every movie

[@teddybess54]

totally agree with you , this movie was massively underrated

[@CSavageSr]

@@teddybess54 I agree. Needs a re-release.

[@funlovinkrimenal]

It was released in the shadow of The Matrix, with similar scenes, like the lobby fight.

[@susanhanstock6879]

As someone once said. "It's unique. And is still the only 'Gun-Fu' movie in existence." 👊💯%

[@Kestrylll]

Not exactly. The writer/Director Kurt Wimmer said he wanted the 'Gun-Kata' parts to be much more fluid but the Producers wanted more impact. According to Wimmer his movie Ultraviolet had much more the feel he was going for with the Gun-Kata in Equilibrium but couldn't do.

[@imperialinquisitor510]

*Laughs in john Wick*

[@PapaBear816]

eeehhhhhh... there is an Anime Movie that runs along those lines.. but with ahhhhh... well Anime babes who reload in....unique ways

[@DaBesst88]

​@@PapaBear816 that's not live action. Incomparable.

[@PapaBear816]

@@DaBesst88 Ohhh now we add a qualifier?

[@Omygames]

In high school, we were reading Fahrenheit 451 and afterwards my teacher allowed me to bring this class to watch the next couple days because the story is basically the same. It was awesome

[@StarLordIRL]

Yezzir!

[@elliotharris3965]

dude i literally have the same story. i convinced my my english teacher to play this in class as we were reviewing fahrenheit 451 hahaha

[@ScottJarreau]

Everybody sweating John Wick for risking it all for a dog, without realizing that John Preston did it first ✊🏾🔥

[@michaelkayjr]

Wrong. Preston risked it all. Wick had nothing to lose.

[@ScottJarreau]

@ True

[@Nothing_is_sacred]

🙄🆗​@@michaelkayjr

[@StarLordIRL]

Yes!!!!!!!

[@wolf45-c8h]

🍪🙄

[@spittlefish5208]

You know, I never really thought about it 'til now but the lie detector guy "flinching" (showing fear) after he gets stared down is kind of like saying the cleric is spreading emotion even through violence.

[@WhiteScarsEmo]

I want to think that wince is why the Cleric didn't kill him.

[@squadcode71]

That lie detector guy may have also be a sense offender, as you can notice he is slightly flinched by the scene Preston shot everyone, which is the sign of being afraid.

[@emredrst]

My take is that there are many more offenders in the population

[@craigoneill2216]

He was a sense offender He wasn’t taking the drug he says shit when the detector started going off

[@SuperheroRockstar]

I think on some level they can't really completely eliminate fear. Not only would that also imply no one would fear sense offending, but even if they followed the rules, every cleric would be highly ineffective because they would simply charge into danger like lemmings with no sense of self-preservation.

[@observermi8796]

'Gun Kata'. Cool then, cool now. Good film, Bale was perfect.

[@Vittrich]

always thought its called gun fu, also sound more fluid.

[@FredC-v2p]

​@@VittrichKata- Japanese for 'form'. Trauning exercise for practitioners, pattern of martial arts movements. True meaning over a...sound

[@emberarashi1987]

I loved how the gun fu started off regimental and as the cleric got his emotions back it became more fluid and human…also his clothes changed from black to white

[@dennisyoung4631]

All he might need is to reach over his shoulder for a pistol and have the thing *fill his hand* - and then have the slide work full stroke seemingly by “Magic” as the safety flips off as he brings it into action…. The whole happening so rapidly that it seems one smooth flowing blurred motion….

[@smoke42088]

the john wick before john wick this movies badass

[@tysons8759]

Yeah… No. he’s a copy Selene in underworld.

[@neonpancakes1]

@@tysons8759 More like a copy of Violet from Ultraviolet!

[@krisskross6074]

The Matrix after the The Matrix in terms of action.

[@ericsteel173]

American Batwick

[@Fighttilltheend0136]

Christens came out before mila🎉​@@tysons8759

[@jasonstewart50]

This was an awesome movie; but I always found it funny that emotions were "suppressed," but they seem to forget that anger, fear, retribution, smugness, callousness, etc. are emotions too - and EVERYONE exhibits them.

[@slosubies4845]

The general conclusion was that it suppresses the extremes of emotion, not completely eliminating them. That's enough for me to get over what others might call a plot-hole.

[@vampsteiner3762]

The implication is what father says at the end, most everyone in the higher positions of the tetragrammaton was feeling one way or the other, that's why Brandt was always smiling and why the "lie detector" guy flinches when preston looks at him with intent to kill. The idea being that no matter the precepts on which a control system is built, sooner or later those who hold that power of control will irreversibly subvert or corrupt those same precepts to stay in power. Hypocrites, bah.

[@logicalrationalfishing7481]

I was working up a similar content. The emotion to be a Nazi style A-hole and murder like a drone is also some form of emotion. I mean even eating plain old tasting slop requires some point of enjoyment. Still a cool movie like you said, but emotion suppression would give you a machine, not cold blooded, sarcastic, cocky officers wanting to destroy art. Just to recognize art as bad requires you to have some emotion towards it.

[@Postidemoni]

You state reality, but forget it when it hits you. Make it stick.

[@MrSinfold]

I think they were suppressing positive emotions while magnifying negative ones with the drug

[@AndroidFerret]

The end fight with the magazines is amazing. Amazing choreography

[@xxheavyswagxx]

What's up ferret!

[@brentchristensen1500]

Starts with Sean Bean getting killed. God I love memes. Thanks for this. Made my day

[@fallinginthed33p]

I don't think I've seen a Sean Bean movie where he makes it to the end.

[@KandyKane999]

​@@fallinginthed33p The Sharpe series is excellent AND he lives through the whole thing. He's so young though.

[@amoeb81]

@@KandyKane999 ssshhhh, stop shattering the meme...

[@KandyKane999]

@@amoeb81 The meme is so strong that the first episode of Sharpe I kept waiting for him to die. It wasn't until the 2nd or 3rd one that I accepted he was the hero and would probably live til the end.

[@samuelzuleger5134]

@@KandyKane999 Personal opinion is Sean Bean accepted all the characters that died as a trade off for Sharpe, who is unkillable.

[@alphus195]

Equilibrium and Gattaca, severely underrated movies.

[@DaBesst88]

Equilibrium! One of my favorite movies of all time!

[@hairounagems]

One of the best and most under-rated old movies out there.

[@einrazer]

Agreed but hearing it called old makes me sad lol

[@s70driver2005]

Old?!?! Lol

[@Rew101]

@@s70driver2005 we have to face facts we’re old now 😂😂😂😂

[@shaun469]

Everything's old when your 20.

[@saadalchbly]

❤❤😢😮🙎✈️

[@Gazpalli]

The muzzle flashes being 4 intersecting Ts from the tetragrammaton symbol was such an unnecessary but Uber cool addition. I remember watching this when it was released and just being blown away at how great a film it was. I still love it.

[@samuelzuleger5134]

Those custom "cleric" pistols were ridiculously expensive compared to just about everything in the film, at least according to Kurt Wimmer.

[@posthandsome9451]

Director: “Ok, for this role you’ll be playing an agent that exhibits no emotion whatsoever. Emotion has been outlawed and is punishable by death. I cannot stress this enough - zero emotion.” Taye Diggs: “So smile as many times as I can. Got it.”

[@ДмитрийОсипов-м9д]

At least in their last fight the very room and how Preston looks around underlines the hypocrisy. The higher-ups are far from emotionless, DuPont even quotes the very poem Sean Bean died for

[@jackdonith]

@ДмитрийОсипов-м9д I think this was the point at the end. I expected the leader to have emotions but it turns out all the ruling class were sense offenders-they just kept the public emotionless as it was easier for the regime to control them that way. Hell even the riflemen that exit the leader's room have seen how it's decorated, it's not just the Clerics.

[@zcorpalpha2462]

“ Now, Let’s See Paul Allen’s Guns “ 🥃🔥

[@skeetajohnson]

This movie is so underrated

[@CRAFT7445]

It's not about being able to dodge bullets or aiming accurately; it's about knowing where the person is aiming and not being there when the trigger is pulled or manipulating your target to where you want them to be when you pull the trigger.

[@9391862]

The original John Wick, only this one knows how to save his doggo :D

[@victorcippitelli2242]

Need more movies using this gun kata style man. Is so awesome indeed.

[@jojoman4087]

5:51 I thought the soldier said " He is a sex offender" LMAO!!!

[@EurekaAK75]

LOOOL!!😂

[@harleykennedy7922]

Lmao same

[@Johnarroa]

"I'm cuming"

[@dawey8897]

Gooner identified

[@jackdonith]

I think it was deliberate, they were playing with the words. It would have been more accurate to say emotion offender but sense offender sounds like sex offender.

[@joshsmith6043]

I saw this pre-Batman Begins and when he was cast everyone said who? I said omg Batman will be great again.

[@XeroFailGames]

Angus face after preston kills the guys surrounding him is hilarious

[@Futuretense101]

Man...the Gun Kata is freakin NUTS 😅😅😅😅

[@MichaelJohnson-dd9yo]

I mean, he did ask nicely🤷🏽

[@1110631]

@9:51. “That really was a Hattori Hanzo sword.” Ooops, wrong movie.

[@jeepamir508]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@StarLordIRL]

How yall skip the fight with Father?! "Careful, Preston - you're treading on my dreams"

[@evlinalw325]

Not. Without. INCIDENT! One of my favorite all time lines and deliveries

[@SultanAlZaabi]

This movie was way ahead of its time

[@charlesudeokoro4075]

I think this was my first movie of Christian Bale. I need to rewatch it.

[@Just_lift_anyone]

Honestly, I found this to be one of the most unintentionally hilarious films I've ever seen.

[@douglasphillips24]

Watched this many years ago and still one of my favorite movies with Bale .

[@fujitafunk]

I never realized it but the training scene with the swords was basically foreshadowing of the ending fight. He smacks Taye Diggs’s helmet then Taye takes the helmet off. Clearly his character hadn’t learned anything.

[@jonbrooks5246]

Loved this movie! Vastly under appreciated!

[@einrazer]

Ever notice how the other cleric always smiles?

[@biteznbeatz]

I still remember watching this movie in TV for the first time. I was very young. But I was intrigued and amazed by the fight sequences. Probably one of the best choreographed action movies after The Matrix for me.

[@scottfielding6179]

Love Equilibrium! And yes, another Sean Bean on-screen death. But what a death!

[@bkim3664]

7:02 When Max level/ Gear Score + Full BIS + All Cash items + full buff character joined 1 ~2 tier lower raid.

[@kandrs7445]

I kept thinking as a kid "... stop surrounding him in groups of six. Try an odd number!"

[@paulevans9858]

10/10! My favorite sci-fi film ever!!!!!!!!!

[@theonlyscaaaar]

“Sense offender” it is so funny 😂

[@brandonwomack7474]

Some of the best swordplay I've seen since Highlander

[@balllightning4335]

Director: We should make a Kung Fu movie with guns Others: Good idea, let's do it!

[@theindooroutdoorsman]

"Gunkata" still cracks me up 😂

[@kingslob3422]

whenever i see an old upload like this from before 2011, i immediately think of nostalgic youtube from that era. makes me think about how weird it is this vid has been in the "same place" through so much throughout the years. makes me wonder what i was doing that day in 2008, as this video was uploading. i was being a kid.

[@leandrolej]

3:30 Neo and Morpheus in the training program 7:02 Neo in the corridor shoot-out there's some resemblance between the two movies it's just curiosity, i am not asking for a fight.

[@AndroidFerret]

Don't break what's good?

[@ornayen924]

This the first movie i saw of christian bell !! i was amazed by two things : his charisma and his white mao suit

[@KCM25NJL]

Was he Christian Bale's stunt double?

[@KandyKane999]

You may have seen him in Empire of the Sun or the old Disney film Newsies. He's just a little kid in them.

[@ssvgamesonline9996]

*5:59** WHO PERFORMS THIS COMPOSITION, LITERALLY FOR A FEW SECONDS, SUCH A CHORUS, PLEASE TELL SOMEONE!!! I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR A LONG TIME. THANK YOU*

[@AndroidFerret]

A world without emotions is impossible.

[@fencserx9423]

This movie should have been a sensation. There’s probably a reason why it wasn’t but WOW it’s one of the best

[@felicianlevai6093]

Look at the door at 8:08. Something missing, right? 😀

[@philbob9638]

How the hell did you even notice that!? Good catch though.

[@felicianlevai6093]

@philbob9638 pure luck 😂

[@NoNoahhhh]

what?

[@felicianlevai6093]

@@NoNoahhhh the whole lock mechanism 😂

[@Saur]

2:22 When I'm Dante.

[@solarflare1008]

Insane gun fights,,,,

[@ReaverLordTonus]

Why did you stop short of the final fight?

[@KnightMD]

The number of soldiers just "standing there waiting to be shot" is so damn high. But yeah I liked it as a kid.

[@TROOPERfarcry]

Kind of interesting how an actor can display their craft by acting like they're not acting, and doing it convincingly enough that one would believe that they're not acting at not acting, but are in fact, not acting.

[@gabyspan940]

but he was acting

[@TROOPERfarcry]

@@gabyspan940 He wasn't acting - he was just _ACTING_ like he wasn't acting. It was convincing, too.

[@Skarwind]

Possibly still my favorite movie ever.

[@J24777]

This is AWESOME!!

[@beehive5835]

Fantastic movie!

[@DaBesst88]

This is why batman doesnt use guns!😂😂

[@Coinsocks]

the pinnacle of "Thats so dumb, but its so cool!"

[@superbigcat]

@BoxofficeMoviesScenes may as well add the last fight. why edit it out?

[@FectacularSpail]

John Preston walked so that John Wick could fly.

[@gulc]

And less notably: fall down an endless staircase.

[@shannonmagann9009]

they totally need to get Christian bale back to reprise this role or remake the film.

[@mixey01]

Nobody realized this is John Wicks great grandson

[@tomassoejakto]

4:11 if emotions are repressed, he shouldn't be smiling like he's giving himself a pat in the back for having a hunch that something is up with preston

[@woodlandbiker]

Theres a few things where he shows emotions. Especially pride.

[@slosubies4845]

The general conclusion among the fan-base years ago is that the drug suppresses emotion but doesn't eliminate it. No more extreme highs and lows, but people are still basically human and feeling. You take a character like Taye Diggs' Brandt that would normally be unhinged and put them on the drug, they might still show some emotion more than someone who is normally even-keeled like Preston on the drug. The other theory is that Angus and his selected few (like Brandt) are not on the drug, enjoying the luxury of their full range of emotions while they control everyone else.

[@darkwolfe6286]

​@@slosubies4845 I subscribed to the 2nd idea. Originally the majority probably started off the same but with most authoritarian governments there will be people in positions who decide to take advantage and control the masses while maintaining the facade of a controlled dictatorship.

[@garrick3727]

Literally never heard of this film until right now. Must watch immediately.

[@lizekamtombe2223]

The best fight scenes in this movie is the movie in its entirety.

[@archmageofmetal8883]

I've rewatched this movie so many times

[@Rayzer1989]

This is a bloody good movie.

[@davidmarkwort9711]

A real action film with a story to match

[@luiscosta9186]

Masterpiece of a film!

[@Shadow-bs1iu]

Great film this. Needs a true 4K release with a Dolby Atmos track. Imagine that!

[@sean78745]

He just wanted to teach him about sourdough starters

[@Hackenberg]

This is a brilliant movie. Get it.

[@marcoliviertoure1676]

Masterclass!!

[@betrayedcitizen5135]

How much fun is this movie OMG!

[@BREAKocean]

Does this predate devil may cry? Some of that shooting was very reminiscent of it.

[@fugoo8912]

DMC came a year and some months before it.

[@bradruxton3742]

@@fugoo8912 That said, this was made in response to The Matrix and not DMC

[@victorcippitelli2242]

This movie was released in 2001, DMC the next year so maybe the game developers saw this movie during production but is more obvious they take inspiration of Matrix but to me more about Equilibrium if you compare Preston's style of shooting with DMC's Dante style, they are identical.

[@heavystarch100]

I love how the muzzle flash is the Grammaton symbol!!😮

[@frankindabank]

I loved the last fight when he just finished off the enemies in seconds like a real badass, no sentimental talk, no prolonged fighting for no reason. Just fast and effective, without letting the baddies talk nonsense and waste time... Happens not often these days, always these super long fights for no reason, the hero almost dies and then comes back, but not here.

[@saadalchbly]

😭😭😭😭🚶

[@armendarizosvaldo26]

Impresionante 😮

[@soundfreak2309]

Absolutely ridiculously ludicrous movie. I loved it

[@Jonathan-g3f6i]

We need a remake or a part 2

[@jhetttiernan2623]

Gun-kata. Simple, elegant, yet… BOLD

[@EdwinacurrY]

Such a masterpiece of a film 👌

[@klengong]

Gun kata. So cool

[@BerishaFatian]

I thought John Wick is too much till I rewatched this movie.

[@joeschmoe233]

So much for smokeless gunpowder. It felt like we were at Gettysburg.

[@slosubies4845]

Well, it is a dystopian future. Some resources may be scarce.

[@Kool..]

9/10 👍

[@charlesudeokoro4075]

Brandt thought it would be another spar as usual....if only he had known 😁.

[@acharles3374]

Outrageous

[@jed0247]

Someone's been playing too much Devil May Cry

[@linkthehero6218]

I understand this feelinggggg🔥🔥🔥🔥😎😎😎😎❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@insettoletale6772]

Troppo bello questo film. Lui è strepitoso 😊

[@leechang6896]

"Gun Kata" ❤❤❤

[@azati-p4i]

This movie was created ahead of it's time, much earlier than even Matrix, a masterpiece of movie making.

[@arcannskywalker5476]

My favorite part,... When you think your The Guy,..until you meet The Guy & yeah he minds your suite,..by removing your Face 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@LOOTLORD605]

I really never get bored of this movie,its the real SIgma.

[@andythurman8713]

Sean Bean doing what he does best, dying

[@nannull4851]

What is the song from 6:00 ?