Director: Antoine
Fuqua
Genre: Action/
Crime/ Thriller
Runtime: 132
minutes
Year:
2014
Starring: Denzel
Washington, Chloë Grace Moretz, Marton Csokas, David Harbour, Melissa Leo, Bill
Pullman, Haley Bennett
Description: A man
(Denzel Washington) who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him
cannot stand idly by when he meets a young girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) under the
control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters.
I WATCHED
THIS MOVIE FOR MY 2021 MOVIE CHALLENGE
WEEK 49: A
MOVIE THAT’S PART OF A SERIES
Review: Robert McCall is a good citizen who works in a hardware store. He has an
obsessive-compulsive disorder, in which he does and arranges everything in
perfection. He doesn’t sleep much, if at all. At night he goes to a café to
read, bringing his own tea bag. During one night he meets a young prostitute
Teri. She is ordered by her Russian boss Slavi to go with several rich and
nasty men. After Teri is beaten into the hospital by Slavi, and old feeling
comes to McCall’s mind and he tries to buy her off. Unfortunately, Slavi doesn’t
take up the offer and that’s when Robert McCall’s true nature comes out. He decides
to retaliate against Slavi and his accomplices on his own, much against the
wishes of the head of the Russian mafia, who sends assassin Teddy to McCall. During
the cat and mouse game that is going on between them, McCall has to pull out all
the stops to stay out of the hands of this unapproachable killer.
The premise of the film is
not all that original, but the execution is. Robert McCall is a character you
can easily sympathize with, also thanks to Denzel Washington who plays him. The
man can do no wrong.
The movie is action packed ad
has a lot of tension, but also makes room for character development. Especially
for McCall, who, like I stated before, is a very likeable character and you can’t
help but root for him. I don’t think this movie would have been as good if
McCall was played by someone else.
The final confrontation is
amazing, I loved that part of the film. Bloody and violent, but very cool.
“The Equalizer” is a really
good film that liked much more then I expected too.
Rating: 4/
5
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