This is a pretty huge plot hole. We are shown Preston switching guns with Brandt in the rebel execution scene. At the end of the film, when they check the computer to see which gun was used when Preston killed the police squad, it comes up as Brandt's. Problem is, the switch happens long after the scene with the police squad. Furthermore, only one gun was switched. Even if the logic worked, Preston would have been using one of Brandt's guns and one of his own. [The entire point of the scene, as we find out, is to make Preston 'think that he's won', so even if he were using one of each gun, the mistake is his own: he doesn't spot that fact, and thinks he has fully incriminated Brandt.] Corrected by Jez
Equilibrium (2002) - 25 corrections
Directed by Kurt Wimmer, starring Christian Bale, Sean Bean
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This is a pretty huge plot hole. We are shown Preston switching guns with Brandt in the rebel execution scene. At the end of the film, when they check the computer to see which gun was used when Preston killed the police squad, it comes up as Brandt's. Problem is, the switch happens long after the scene with the police squad. Furthermore, only one gun was switched. Even if the logic worked, Preston would have been using one of Brandt's guns and one of his own. [The entire point of the scene, as we find out, is to make Preston 'think that he's won', so even if he were using one of each gun, the mistake is his own: he doesn't spot that fact, and thinks he has fully incriminated Brandt.] Corrected by Jez In the movie it seems everyone in the government, even young boys in training, are constantly on the lookout for behaviour indicating sense crimes. For instance Cleric Preston is put on alert by the inflection his first partner gives a couple of words. Yet throughout the film Father and Taye Diggs exhibit fairly normal, human emotions, including angry outbursts without anyone taking notice. [This is because Dupont (NOT Father, the character seen on the video screens) and Cleric Brandt are both off the dose. Wimmer has confirmed this in numerous interviews. As for why they weren't turned in, Dupont never goes out in public, so no one would notice his behavior; and as for Brandt, who is going to turn in a Grammaton Cleric unless it were another Cleric?] In the final part of the movie, the hero kills one of the bad guy using the scabbard of the sword. [I wondered about this too but if you play the movie in slow motion you will see that Preston uses the sheath to block a sword and it gets cut, giving it a sharp point. He then thrusts the sharp point through a guard, killing him. A high quality sheath would be fairly sturdy so this would be possible.] Just after Christian Bale has shown the photo to Emily Watson, he exits, leaving the photo on the table. The next shot is of him back at his desk, looking folornly at the photo, which he's somehow got back. [It seems to be implied that quite a bit of time has passed between these two shots. If so, Preston could have easily returned to Evidentiary Storage and reacquired the photo to peruse it some more.] During the final battle scene Christian Bale is seen to spin round a few times holding a large sword and slashing the four or five guards round him to pieces. As he does this we see his nice white tux/toga sprayed right across its middle with nice bright red blood. yet after he has finished chopping everyone up he still has a lovely clean top. [A close look at the blood spray from the final slash shows that its direction is sideways, parallel to Preston's body, rather than straight towards him. The blood mist shows up very well against the white of his tunic, but as he spins the blood droplets move past him at a different rate than he is spinning, indicating that they never touched him at all. Also, using frame advance reveals that as the blood disappears in the same shot, the tunic is still bright white. This of course begs the question of why the floor itself is clear afterwards - the blood had to go somewhere - but at least we know why Cleric Preston's tunic is free of blood.]Previous Page • 1 2
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