Trailer 1. Interview Photos Top cast Edit. Jonathan Scarfe Resnik as Resnik. Sakina Jaffrey Fatima as Fatima. Kazy Tauginas Ari as Ari. Antoine de Lartigue Mr.
Calbert Belgian Husband as Mr. Calbert Belgian Husband. Antoine Fuqua. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. When his long-time friend is murdered he embarks on a relentless, globe-trotting quest for vengeance. There is no equal. Rated R for brutal violence throughout, language, and some drug content.
Did you know Edit. Trivia After over fifty-five film and television credits, this was Denzel Washington 's first sequel. European-style exit signs are usually white and green rectangles, showing a stick figure running towards an open door. Quotes Robert McCall : There are two kinds of pain in this world. Alternate versions Most UK releases are pre-cut for a 15 certificate, reducing scenes of "strong violence and gore". The following footage was removed, totaling 11s of cuts: an already broken arm being further twisted two knives being pulled upwards in a man's body at the end of a stabbing a gory shot of insides hanging out after an explosion a man's spine being severed before he's thrown off a building The 4K version is uncut and rated User reviews Review.
Top review. Slow, overprecious, silly. One good actor can not produce a movie, when nothing else is there to add.
Small talks may not always contribute to the atmosphere, expressly when randomly thrown into the soup. And a crude story remains just a sketch, whatever you try to do with it.
And this is the case with this movie. A huge potential wasted in a mediocre script, with barely convincing characters and a totally flat course. No music, nor the hurricane, could add to the lack of vibration in this scenario. This is a "Gran Torino" with a silly fake action movie beside. Denzel, who is a great actor and is playing excellent here too, becomes almost ridiculous trying to give some substance to nothing. Total disappointment, and an unreal over-rating I could have done without the barbed-wire noose and glass-shard fight on shattered mirrors.
But I couldn't have done without Washington, who, like Liam Neeson, has reached a new cruising altitude as a leading man. If The Equalizer is the hit it should be, it will give this veteran action star his very first movie franchise. This is a kid's fantasy of how to be bigger and badder than anybody else. As for Washington, no doubt he now has his very own franchise. More and better Equalizers will be welcome, just to watch Denzel finding new ways of getting even.
It scrapes together two gripping, closely observed acts before lobotomizing itself for an over-the-top final third that tips the needle from 'Pleasure' to 'Pleasure, Guilty, Shame on You! If audiences and star are so inclined, it's easy to see this premise and this character - a tough, taciturn gent burdened with regret and a very special skill set - going into Roman numerals. If you skip it, you're missing one of the year's signal works of superior Hollywood craftsmanship.
Fuqua, while not the world's most subtle filmmaker, directs the action sequences with bluntness and clarity and effectively uses his star as an oasis of calm in a jumpy, nasty universe. A tense thriller that also has more on its mind than the familiar genre constraints it operates under.
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