Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life?

Equilibrium is set in a post-apocalyptic future where all citizens are required to take regular doses of the emotion-suppressing drug “Prozium”, in the belief that suppressing emotion will suppress conflict and thus avoid any future horrific wars.

The premise (art) sounds pretty good: Christian Bale plays John Preston, a law-enforcing Prozium-popping Cleric First-Class trained in the deadly art of gun kata, and spends lots of ammunition in the pursuit of peace for all.

I prepared myself for some hot 1-on-30 action, but my life instead unfortunately imitated the wrong part of the art. Equilibrium is a double-dose of Prozium. The lack of a story hinders more than helps this movie (even for one of this genre, where one doesn’t want a story to get in the way of the action). The monotonic Christian Bale is more snooze-inducing than stoic; even his record-setting 118 kills cannot save this movie.