The Equalizer (2014)
8/10
A Nice Classic Straight-Up Action Film!
9 May 2024
The narrative is strong. The characater-development is excellent. It has a great feeling of vengeance and empathy and compassion and vile hatred and mixes those feelings in a toxic blender of violent oppression.

All for Robert McCall to use with his quest to take down the Russian mob. I'm not entirely sure how they got this far with this much exploitation but it is a good basis for a storyline for a movie.

The use of girls and trafficking is heatful and emotional and it sets a big trigger in McCall's mindset to go back to his roots and destroy the mob; once-and-for-all and any corruption entangled with it!

For that just enjoy the ride! The sequences are polished and well-done and not overused CGI. It does get a bit repetitive as a concept but that's to be expected. It has an excellent score.

There is character-building sub-plots going on and I think that really does a benefit to understand his motive. I really enjoyed this movie and if you don't take it too seriously I think you will too! It's very well shot and excecuted with great techincal skill by the Director.

It's very nearly a masterpiece but not quite. Cool movie. 8/10!
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