The Equalizer Movie Blurb by Shale September 26, 2014 This is the big screen version of the '80s TV show of the same name (which I never watched). Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) is a 59-year-old blue collar worker in a big box home supply store. No one would suspect that he used to be a black-ops agent who faked his own death and got out of the business. Now he just goes to work and lives a monastic life in a cheap Boston apartment. McCall at Home Mart He's an easy going guy, gets along with everyone and is helping one of his co-workers lose some pounds and get in shape for a security guard job, trying to impart his own Spartan discipline onto the guy. McCall has insomnia and hangs out at an all night diner, drinking tea and reading books. Another regular there is a young hooker named Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz) whom he befriends. She waits for her pimp to bring johns for her to hook up with. Hooker at the Diner When Teri is nearly beaten to death by her Russian pimp and in the hospital, it bothers McCall and he goes to negotiate with them, but they don't take him seriously (call him grandpa in Russian - I know that word) so he ghosts them. Everyone thinks it is a gang war and have no idea one man did it. Turns out this is just one part of a much larger Russian Mob enterprise on the Eastern seaboard so they send in their enforcer Teddy (Marton Csokas) get rid of the threat. Teddy Don't Play - You Know He's Badass! [SIZE=12pt]Tat Says; "Don't Touch Me if You Want to Live!"[/SIZE] From here it really becomes an action flick and McCall is almost super hero with his set of skills, single-minded purpose and stoic resistance to pain. They end up in the Home Mart, where there are any number of lethal tools to get rid of bad guys. I liked the movie but some may consider is slow in the parts that I liked. IDK if it was entirely the director who made those classic cinematography shots like they had in the black & white days of film, but there were some extreme close-ups of minute objects as McCall surveys the area and plans his battle to the second (Like Robert Downey Jr. in Sherlock Holmes). Just some great shots that set the mood of this movie. After McCall comes out of retirement he starts letting it out that he is available to help the downtrodden with their problems and it is set up for The Sequalizer. I suppose this movie is gonna be popular in Russia as well.
I liked it I was a fan of the original series and went back to watch some episodes online after the movie...it's way cheesier than i remember with bad acting and awful mid-eighties synth music lol...but i guess i thought it was real good at the time because i was like 10 years old
My son saw it and did not like the gratuitous violence. I'm the same way. Movies like Saw, etc, just don't cut it. Soooooo--I'm not seeing it. Although, I must admit--my current story has violence. Clint Eastwood type violence. Don't mess with me--all is cool. Mess with me--- Plus--I like tough women who take no shit. They've taken enough.
I enjoyed it and the story line was pretty good I have to admit, I am a fan of Mr Washington BUT it seems to do a lot of the one man vs 10 men sort of. All in all though good movie!
