Hollywood film "Equal": reviews of viewers and critics

In 2015, the film company Route One Films presented the film "Equal" to the world. Comments on the picture were first voiced at the 72nd Venice Film Festival, where the solemn premiere of melodrama took place. How did the movie critics perceive professional criticism? And who played the main roles in it?

A short story and the creators of the picture

The film "Equal", the reviews of which can hardly be called unambiguous, narrates about the fictional universe from the future. According to the plot, another terrible world war swept through our planet, destroying 99% of the population. Surviving people began life with a clean slate and built an "ideal" society in which humility is cultivated, the absence of violent emotions and feelings.

Against the background of this situation, the novel of a young couple - Nia and Silos - is shown in detail. Both of them are forced to hide that they are extremely emotional personalities and suffer outlawed SOS syndrome.

Nia and Silos are desperately looking for like-minded people, nurturing a plan of escape from an oppressed society on a sparsely populated island. But all the secret becomes clear: the secret of lovers is revealed and subjected to both the ENI procedure, implanting into the organisms of the protagonists implants that suppress any emotions. Will Nia and Silos deal with this situation? Or is it not capable of defeating the brutal social order?

The director of the project was Drake Doremus - director of the drama "Full Breast" with Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones in the lead roles. He also wrote the screenplay for the movie "Equal" in a partnership with Nathan Parker. The premiere of the painting took place in September 2015 in Venice.

The main actors

Young Hollywood stars Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Holt won major roles in the movie "Equal."

Reviews of the actor's game Stewart - very controversial. In 2008, the singer became the main heroine of the movie "Twilight". On the one hand, her work in this project was marked by a mass of awards, like the MTV Movie Awards or the Teen Choice Awards. On the other hand, there were nominations for "Golden Raspberry" for the worst acting and the worst acting duet. Every appearance of Kristen on the screen causes an unpredictable reaction from critics and viewers. The same can be said about her work in the project "Equal."

To the work of Nicholas Holt in America are more reserved. He debuted on the screen as a child, in the melodrama "My Boy" with Hugh Grant. At the age of 16 Holt starred in the popular British TV series "Milk Pumpers". And a little later he was lucky to get into the franchise "X-Men", where Nicholas got the role of a mutant Beast.

In the dystopian drama "Equal", the actor played Saylos, who suffers from a syndrome of acute consciousness - a state where a person experiences fear, depression, and overwhelming love. Because of his exposure to emotions, the hero Holt becomes an outcast in an "ideal" society and forced to fight for his existence.

Actors of the second plan

Who else from celebrities can be seen in the movie "Equal"?

Reviews about the work of Australian actor Guy Pearce, who played in the melodrama of the character Jonas, mostly positive. In 1997, the performer flashed in the Oscar-winning film "The Secrets of Los Angeles", a little later he appeared in the tragicomedy "The King Says!".

The role of Bess performed Jackie Weaver ("Ghosts"), the image of Rachel - a familiar Silos - embodied in the screens of Bel Pauli ("London holidays"). Also in the frame you can see Kat Lin Sheila, Scott Lawrence ("Criminal Communications") and David Selby ("Social Network").

Reviews of the film "Equal": critical reviews

At the Venice Film Festival, the futuristic picture of Drake Doremus did not cause a special excitement, so she lost the main prize of the Mexican drama "From afar". Failure was also awaiting the film at the Toronto Film Festival. What did the critics write in their reviews after the release of the melodrama "Equal" in the mass-production?

Reviews of the film by professional reviewers turned out to be negative.

The idea of the movie "Equal" is clear already in the first 10-15 minutes of the development of the screen action and looks rather primitive: ostensibly to be insensitive - it is bad, without emotions people cease to be people.

When watching the creation of Drake Doremus, none of the reviewers had a feeling of novelty. The plot of the melodrama almost repeats the plot of another well-known film - "Equilibrium" with Christian Beyl in the title role: in this picture people from the "ideal" society also had problems with emotions, so they were forcibly put on a special vaccine.

The film "Equal": reviews of viewers

On the international site IMDb melodrama Doremus has a rating of 6 points out of the possible 10. This score is calculated on the basis of online voting, so it can be judged from what viewers' reviews actually earned the film "Equal."

For the most part, the audience took the picture neutrally - like a melodrama, which you can watch only once for the sake of interest. Rare positive reviews come mainly from the fans of the main actors, as they are always ready to support their pets, even if they participate in unsuccessful projects.