Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, when Preston enters the father's room, he first checks for the presence of guards before proceeding. But after a few steps, guards appear from behind every room's column. Given Preston's starting position, it would have been impossible for him to not spot the two guards hidden behind the two columns flanking the door, as both of them were hiding on the same side as Preston himself. Otherwise, they would have been visible to the viewer, given the fact that the camera angle is facing Preston. In other words, it is impossible for those two guards to be hiding both from Preston and from the viewer's point of view.
Phixius
30th Jun 2016
Equilibrium (2002)
7th Jul 2013
Equilibrium (2002)
Corrected entry: When Preston opens fire in the dark room at the resistance in the beginning of the movie, he has just two pistols. He does a continuous, non stop rate of fire with both guns very rapidly for about 17 to 18 seconds straight, never stopping to reload. Given the size of the pistols, there is no way he had that much ammo in the guns to keep shooting that rapidly for that long. (00:04:10)
Correction: It's not the size of the gun that determines how many bullets it can fire between reloads, it's the length of the magazine. Besides, this scene isn't meant to be a continuous display of events. The angle changes from a wide shot showing Preston illuminated by the muzzle flash, to POV shots of the people Preston is shooting. These two angles are showing the same events twice, from two different perspectives, seeming to double the amount of time Preston spends firing rounds. Compare the number of bodies in this scene to the number of guards Preston kills later when they find the puppy in his trunk and how long it takes him to kill those guards; it didn't take Preston 17 to 18 seconds to kill the people in that room.
12th Oct 2003
Equilibrium (2002)
Corrected entry: When Preston is beating up the soldiers with his studded pistol butts, he smashes the visors off a few of the helmets and you can see the soldiers are wearing protective goggles underneath.
3rd Jun 2003
Equilibrium (2002)
Corrected entry: An interesting DVD peculiarity. Switch on the Subtitle feature and then watch the credit roll -- even the background music and the choral singing during the final credits are subtitled. The subtitle "Slow instrumental music plays" is followed by "Indistinct singing". (01:40:15)
26th Aug 2003
Equilibrium (2002)
Corrected entry: Another subtitles related problem. Whenever they show Sean Pertwee delivering a speech the subtitles list Angus Macfayden's character as the one speaking. While this later turns out to be the case I still think they could have done a slightly more discreet job.
9th Apr 2008
Equilibrium (2002)
Corrected entry: Preston supposedly switched his weapon with his partner's in the warehouse raid, but he had his gun in one hand and his partner's in the other and never faced away from his partner and never changed hands.
Correction: Brandt offers Preston his gun with his left hand. Preston accepts it with his right hand. After deliberating, Preston hands his own gun back to Brandt with his left hand. Brandt accepts it with his right hand. Brandt pretended not to notice for the benefit of the overall plan to trap Preston.
11th May 2007
Equilibrium (2002)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Preston tells the men to shoot the hinges and lock, It shows guns being pointed at four hinges and 2 locks.
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Correction: Preston saw the guards. He expected guards. He knew he could handle the guards. He didn't proceed into the room because he mistakenly thought the coast was clear, he proceeded because he was not intimidated.
Phixius ★
This doesn't make sense. If he was not intimidated at all, then why stop and visually search for threats for several seconds? The most logical explanation is just that the director wanted us to think the soldiers were hiding from Preston's view, with the issue being they couldn't hide from OUR view at the same time. This correction is not justified.
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