The
Equalizer 8/10
This
movie is a hard rated R! Just gotta put that out there. Oh, and some
spoilers. I wasn't exactly dying to see this movie. I knew that the
old series was called The Equalizer and my Grandmama watched it along
with a bunch of other shows about old people killing murderers or
looking to solve them. So going in all I knew was that Denzel Washington was in it and it was directed by the guy that did Training
Day which is one of my favorite movies. So fuck it. I wanted to see
what would happen.
This
is a damned good movie. It helped fill that straight up action movie
void that has been missing this summer. There has been a lot of
action movies the last few months that had lots of explosions but
didn't quite deliver. This movie did. Denzel plays Robert “Bob”
McCall who is a retired guy from black ops. This story takes place in
Boston where his life is very plain. He works at a huge hardware
store and goes home and to a nearby diner where he keeps things
simple to the point of being OCD.
He
meets a hooker named Teri played by Chloë Grace Moretz. They chat in
the diner when she isn't boning rich, abusive old men. One day she
gets beat all to hell. Robert ends up confronting the guys that “own”
her and does some Batman/ninja shit and takes them out. This is just
the start of a ton of detective work and crazy, extreme violence.
You
may wonder why the cops haven't caught him yet. Well, most of them
are dirty as hell. The last twenty minutes or so are super intense
and so fun to watch. My only complaint is the use of slow motion at
times. It doesn't happen during fight scenes which made me happy but
there are some camera effect issues that made me smack my lips.
Either way, this is one of the best action films of the summer. Check
it out.
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