Equilibrium: Brandt (Taye Diggs)

Comments for death : Equilibrium: Brandt (Taye Diggs).

it's kata not carta. it's a japanese word that describes a pattern of attack and defense in martial arts. it literally means form.

This death should be further up on the list! How often do you get to see someone's face cut off?

hexo - thank you for letting me know, i assumed it was carta as in the magna carta. Kata makes much more sense . updated it.

I watched this film on DVD this evening.
Brandt lasts for all of three seconds, hilarious given his smugness.

I'd forgotten just how splendidly ridiculous the Gun Kata was, I was grinning insanely through much of the film.

The film does actually avoid being total cheese though. There are some nice atmospheric moments and it avoids several several predictable cliches. For example, I fully expected the evil looking kid to betray his dad at the last minute, and also expected the token woman to be rescued moments before being incinerated.

The back of my DVD says something like "The Matrix meets 1984" - but surely it stole far more from Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"?

All in all, an excellent writeup Mouse .

OB

What of "Hacked" "Slashed" or "Dismemberment"?

Gotta love the unexpected simplicity of this death. In any other Hollywood hands, it would have been another lengthy climactic swordfight, foreshadowed by the sparring match earlier in the film and the fact that Father's office is a large, arena-shaped room with two swords coincidentally on his desk.


Instead, the movie gets you by surprise and fight ends almost after it started. Gotta love it when a movie turns an impending cliche into a joke.