![]() The next year, he starred in "David and Jonathan." From 1986 to 1988, Bean was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and appeared in productions of "The Fair Maid of the West" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Film Careerīean's feature film debut came in 1986, when he appeared in Derek Jarman's LGBT biopic "Caravaggio." He followed this with parts in the thriller "Stormy Monday," the comedy fantasy "How to Get Ahead in Advertising," and another film by Jarman, "War Requiem." At the start of the 90s, Bean starred in an adaptation of the John B. There, he performed in college plays, and eventually won a scholarship to the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.Īfter graduating from RADA in 1983, Bean made his professional acting debut in a production of "Romeo and Juliet," playing the character Tybalt. After briefly attending two other colleges, he returned to Rotherham and began studying drama. During this time, once a week, he attended Rotherham College of Arts and Technology, where he studied welding. Then, he began working for his father's firm. Bean attended Brook Comprehensive School, and later took jobs at a supermarket and at the local council. His father, Brian, owned a fabrication company, where his mother, Rita, worked as a secretary. The extras package is also mediocre, which can only be a good thing, as hopefully it won’t even tempt features-aficionados into buying such a waste of film.Sean Bean was born in 1959 in Handsworth, Sheffield, England. Unfortunately the DVD, although great visually and aurally, could never make up for such a turkey of a film. ![]() The CGI-effects are obvious (although the special effects for the rest of the film are good) and the fight scenes are neither impressive nor long enough to warrant sitting through a ridiculous plot for the action scenes to come along. However, Equilibrium not only is a poor attempt at making a sci-fi film with gravitas, but also the hyped Gun-Kata scenes, a ‘new way of fighting’ mixing gunplay with kung fu, like a über-John Woo film, falls pretty flat. No compromise.” Need I say more? The cheesiness of the film would not be a problem if it compensated for it by included some magnificent action scenes – The Matrix Revolutions is a testament to that – or if it didn’t take itself seriously and was meant to be a bit of fun, like Kill Bill was. For example, a look at some of the taglines reveals Equilibrium was marketed with the line: “Two men. The posters and promotional taglines reeks of cheese – and not of the cool cheese that Matrix has everyone believing, but the of variety that makes you cringe. At first hoping for a smart sci-fi picture, I was sorely let down by the contrived nature of the story and the absurd characterisation. You know that feeling when you go into a movie sure that there’s no way it can be bad, if not exactly ‘good’, but it still is? I’m sorry to say that I felt that from the opening scenes, right until the end. John Preston ruthlessly tracks down these misguided people without a hint of remorse – until he finds that his own partner (Sean Bean, in another criminally minor role) has been skipping his daily serum doses in order to experience human emotions, leading Preston to question his belief in the system he has served unflinchingly all his life.Ĭonclusion Arrghhh. Unfortunately they also erase emotions that some rebels find appealing – love and happiness. In this vision of the future, all citizens are forced to inject a serum which ‘cures’ you of the emotions which have caused a millenium of wa and conflict. Sitting pretty on a high 7 rating on IMDB at the time of writing – very impressive for a sci-fi film – can we expect anything from this imitator in ‘the Year of The Matrix’? John Preston (played by Christian Bale of American Psycho and soon-to-be Batman fame) is a Grammatron Cleric, a servant of a Big Brother-esque godhead trained in exterminating anyone opposing the government’s law against emotions. Introduction Equilibrium was released earlier this year hyped up in billboards as being ‘the next Matrix’ in regards to its blend of action and sci-fi.
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