Film Review – Equals

Director Drake Dormus enjoys making movies about tortured love affairs. The helmer of “Like Crazy” and “Breathe In” returns with “Equals,” a sci-fi-tinged tale of forbidden attraction and emotional restraint. Paying tribute to George Lucas’s “THX 1138,” and lifting a dramatic layer or two from 1997’s “Gattaca,” “Equals” endeavors to explore a futureworld of submission cracked open by primal human instincts. The ambition is there, but execution is missing a few degrees of heat, while miscasting tends to leave sections of the picture a bit too cold for comfort. It’s stylish work with some of the most pronounced architecture porn I’ve seen in some time, but Dormus can’t shake his habits, once again returning to burning passions photographed in extreme, jittery close-up while a feeble sense of tragedy brews in the background. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com