Saturday, February 14, 2015

Movie: The Equalizer

Okay, I saw this movie way after it's release. I like Denzel Washington, great actor, probably going into the same direction as Liam Neeson, doing action movies at an advancing age (um, sorry but had to point out the obvious). 


We see Mr. Washington's character here as an upstanding citizen, helping the people around him better themselves. He hangs out at this diner, reading books which are, according to him, part of his deceased wife's 100 books to read. In this diner he meets the troubled character of Chloe Moretz.


He later finds out that Chloe Moretz's character is a street walker, under one of the stables run by the Russian mob. Her character's really feisty and she mauls one of her customers, and she ends up at the hospital after her pimp decides to teach her a lesson. Denzel then finds out about this and decides to even out the playing field, so to speak. So he gathers whatever information he could from Chloe's street walker friend and he becomes a man on a mission. He goes to their lair above a Russian restaurant. I initially expected big guns, lots of firepower, and mangled bodies. But he disables and kills all of them in under 3 minutes in smooth moves, utilizing whatever he could get his hands on and make them into lethal weapons. The result was the disruption of the Russian's criminal activities in the area. The big boss naturally wanted a head to be skewered on a spike. So he sends in this guy to do the job.


Marton Czokas, I remember this guy in Ultraviolet. He actually makes a very convincing and sadistic villain. As the movie unfolds, we discover how a guy who works as a supervisor at a place like Ace Hardware or True Value could have McGuyver skills. Denzel's character as it turns out is a special forces agent, trained to kill, and faked his death with the help of high ranking friends in the government, just so he could have a normal life. Since the bad Russian guy seems to be one step behind him, Denzel goes to his close friend to do research on the Russian guy. Said villain also happens to be ex-Russian speciaforces. They go head-to-head in a showdown. Of course Denzel wins and he goes an extra mile to kill the head of the mob in Russia and gives Chloe's character a new lease in life. The final scene shows Denzel answering emails for help. It's a feel good movie, leaving us the thought that there could be someone out there who could help us with the insurmountable.

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