Equals (2015)

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Purely Joyful Movie!

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

I just need a second part, It could be a short history,I don't care... I just need to Know how they lives goes after escape... please!!I felt in love with the history and I was so sad he get the cure, but he go with her any way,and sorry, mi English is so bad

Perhaps the most brilliant aspect of the film is how all of our understanding of emotions, how they work, what they do, the small interactions between them; everything is set aside. This creates a blank canvas on which director Drake Doremus paints the vivid hues we have become desensitised to. If you wish for a film that reignites your excitement for life, and it's chaotic harmony, Equals should do the trick.

Equals is wonderful, a must see if you have any feelings at all. The movie is set in a futuristic, "utopian" world where emotion is taken away from humans at birth. Recently though, the SOS disease, which enables these emotions, has been striking and our two main protagonists are "suffering" from it which leads to a wonderful love story.The movie does a great job to create suspense. Without spoiling anything, the tension between our two main characters (played by Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult) leading up to their first contact is perfect and I mustn't say that it delivers great satisfaction when it happens. The two actors are extraordinary, fast paced shots are on point and the story is believable and engaging.Do watch it for an emotional trip.

How do you create a bond and a connection with your audience to make them care when the very core needs of these elements are what your film deliberately doesn't have within its main characters? It's the problem Like Crazy and Breathe In director Drake Doremus faces with this, his next romantically tinged feature Equals and it's a problem that whilst is amiably worked on, is eventually one that can't quite be fixed with Doremus's visually arresting and intriguing in concept tale.Centred within a futuristic landscape where emotions have been nixed within humans to the point of being almost entirely defunct, Nicholas Hoult's illustrator Silas and Kristen Stewart's researcher Nia find themselves feeling the very emotions their organisation are unwillingly to let exist and problems from this obviously ensue.Doremus film feels like a distant cousin to a Sci-Fi films like Gattaca and over a short period of time the young filmmaker has showcased an impressive talent behind the camera with his romantically tinged dramas delivering enough to suggest that he could well become one of the most promising members of the new generation of filmmakers coming through the system but Equals feels like too much for him to pull off.It's a difficult ask for Doremus and his cast to pull Equals off, as having a film where emotions are largely held within makes it that much more difficult for the audience to invest ourselves in these persona's.In many ways Hoult and Stewart do a fine job in their respective roles and are well supported in very small ways by a supporting cast led by Australian's Guy Pearce and Jacki Weaver but in a narrative that is more focused solely on the developing feelings between Silas and Nia as they suffer through S.O.S (Switched On Syndrome), Doremus needed to broaden the horizon of this Sci-Fi universe with the possibility the film as a whole would've benefited greatly from a broader plateau of what has lead mankind to this point history, although budget restraints were clearly factors for this not taking place.Equals is a visually arresting film that feels close to being great in many ways, but is held back by numerous failings. Equals is Doremus's most disappointing film so far no doubt, yet it also harbors enough within in it to suggest that the director is still very much a talent to keep a close eye on as he progresses in his craft.2 ½ coffee mugs out of 5