kalamjameel I'm not expert in watching movies but It's a bad movie i rated 3 just for the new idea other than that i did not enjoy it at all

MovieChopper11 Yep, I did! It's just it was split in several other movies.Did you see "The Giver"? Then you saw 80% of "Equals". The rest is Equilibrium without fights, Aeon Flux, Divergent and any other recent dystopian and futuristic movie you saw in the last ten years. Same main plot: people who are prevent from birth to feel anything in order to keep them calm and productive. No love, no anger, no interaction of any kind between the members of this dystopian society except at work. Consequently, no joy, no sex, no violence, no anything. If you begin to feel, you are "ill" and gradually become a pariah. Eventually, you are eliminated.Life is the same as in The Giver, the scenography almost the same, the love story almost the same, with help from some "rebels", who will sacrifice themselves for him and her. And that's it... until the sequel, which probably will come, in already old fashioned Hollywood style.It seems like a movie made especially for Kristen Stewart. She takes his role seriously and gives some credibility to her character, Nia. The other leading character, Silas, is also played pretty convincing by Nicholas Hoult. The main problem is that they cannot convince us about almost anything because of the script, which brutally lacks of originality and substance. The entire movie is about waiting to happen something and when it finally happens, you knew already what is about and... finish!Too bad for wasting a talent like Guy Pearce for such a small and bland part.!!! Spoiler alert: The only scene with some emotional charge is the first "encounter" of Silas and Nia in the rest room. It's one of the most literally decent erotic scenes I've seen in years. For a moment, you feel like it's not about sex, it's just about the sensation of touching anybody else for the first time. It's an idea you can find in Isaac Asimov's excellent novel "The Naked Sun" and interestingly put in this movie. End of Spoiler.For that scene I'm rising my note, otherwise the movie it's quite poor in every aspect.

Kevin Kevin "Equals" goes on my short list of films so fine they grow better with time.I've watched this three times now since it's release almost two years ago, and it has actually been markedly better each time as I learned to see a world that is alien to my sensibilities. By the third time, the beautiful and subtle display and repression and growth of emotions for characters affected by the "disease" - and lack of them for others unaffected - was actually heart-wrenching. This subtlety and this film is otherwise not easy to grasp because subtle emotion is largely missing or invisible in our own time and art, so maybe that's why the critics and most of the public missed the show. But miss it they did, and that's not only their true loss but certainly a loss for all involved.I guess the cast and crew knew they were making an excellent film and rose to the occasion. High end performances all around - for which we must also credit the direction, design and production quality. Some have called this film a masterpiece. It may well be, but I'll come back to view it again in a few years before I try to make that call.Meanwhile, I can tell you it's at least nearly a masterpiece. Stewart knocks it out of the park. She and the film ought to have had a couple of major awards, and the competition that year was not weak. I've rarely seen a performance anywhere the equal, and if there is a film where performance matters it is "Equals" because it is about human emotion. Mr Nicholas Hoult also deserves a vigorous nod.I don't think it's technically a spoiler to mention there is no serious nudity in this film, but the lack of it may have been the spoiler at the box office and for the critics (IMHO). The audience needs a better foothold in this future world as the film opens. The contrast of our own sexual response to nudity and the lack of such response in this imagined future dystopia could have been that, helping clarify that we are seeing genetically repressed emotional response, as contrasted with culturally suppressed. If this were my film, I'd go back to the cutting room now and add nudity at the beginning. And since that missing foothold - however its accomplished - is key to grasping the rich subtext as the film begins and unwinds, I'm going to give it a 7/10 for my first round, which is a little better than the score awarded by critics and general audience, an 8/10 for my second watch, and 9/10 for my latest viewing.Thanks to all and encore!

snap-hook unless the movie is exceptional, and this movie is exceptional. Yes, the first part of the film is a bit of a slow motion ho-hum, but once the stage is set, this movie begins to tear your heart out to the point you are screaming RUN. I am still shaking and emotionally drained, but it reminded me of what life is all about.I'm not a good critic as to the acting, music score, production and all that, just how I felt during and after the movie and this one turned me inside out and made me so thankful that I found my true love, and I'm male. This is a real gem!