hehe, theres a thread on this one O_o.
Its here:
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f2/t10828.html
both based upon the same premise, yet 'the matrix' itself was a rip-off of anime and kung fu flicks if you actually wanted to go down 'ripoff lane', Matrix would get beat down for years worth of ripoffs lol
I just think the direction style and characters make the difference. Both were great films, matrix renders guns useless, so equilibrium makes gunkata hehe
First of all, I saw this movie two days ago, and liked it enough to watch it a second time. But it is not NEARLY as great as it is being made out to be, especially not comparable to the Matrix trilogy. First of all, the fight scenes are cool, but not on the same level. Second of all, the plot isn't even close. They took the plot from 1984 and stuck neo as the main character. They won the whole damn war in two hours, and it didn't even seem that the resistance needed him to win, the whole revolution was prepackaged to finish the movie in an hour and a half. The coolest part about the matrix isn't that they could do those things, but that they gave a legitimate sci/fi reason to believe they could do them. In Equilibrium, he just says "I don't know, I can just sense..." Bottom line, its an entertaining movie, nowhere near as amazing as you guys claim