The Equalizer (Feature) - 4K + Blu-ray + Digital

One of the best movies ever made in my opinion with one of the best actors to ever do it!! Denzel Washington is charismatic and lethal. Some of the greatest action scenes in any movie!!!

Just an absolutely good hard-hitting movie, and because of this movie, I read the book, Old Man and the Sea in one day. It's only about 78 pages, pretty easy to read And a good little sea adventure story.

Great of course

Outstanding, flows very well

For me, The Equalizer, starring Denzel Washington was probably the best all around action movie of the year, just edging out John Wick with Keanu Reeves in it. The reason it beat out John Wick was because this is also a thinking man's movie. By that I mean Denzel Washington gives meaning to his character with just the simple expression of his eyes. He doesn't have to say anything or do anything. You can actually tell he's giving the situation some careful consideration before he moves into action such as when he first takes out Russian thugs in the office in back of the lounge. He opens the door of the office to leave two or three times, trying to make an important decision. It's certainly a tough one to make. Should he kill the men in the room and then deal with the consequences, or just walk away and hope for the best? When the camera focuses on his eyes, you can see him thinking long and hard. This is acting at its very best. There's a reason why Denzel Washington has won two Oscars during his career, and it's still a long ways from being over. In The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays Robert McCall, who works in a Home Depot-type of store, selling lumber and supplies for construction, or just fixing things around the house. At night he has trouble sleeping and visits the local diner where he has a cup of coffee and reads quietly to himself. It's also the hangout for Teri or is it Elena, played exquisitely by Chloe Grace Moretz, a young prostitute who turns all of her money over to the Russian mafia. She's inadvertently drawn to McCall because he treats her like a fellow human being and encourages her to better herself. A limousine stops in front of them one night when Teri is kind of walking McCall home. Her boss gets out of the car, along with an armed driver, and forces her into the backseat. Even then you can see Denzel thinking, "Should I or shouldn't I?" Teri attempts to resist, but they over power her and drive off. A few days later she ends up in the hospital, badly beaten. That's when Denzel Washington visits the Russians at the back of the lounge, offering them everything he has to buy Teri's freedom. When they refuse, he puts the money back into his pocket and prepares to leave. As he starts to leave the room, he opens and closes the office door a few times, making his famous "no turning back" decision. When he turns around and faces the men, he's calm and relaxed, knowing exactly what he has to do. He even looks at his watch and judges the amount of time it will take to kill them all. Though he's not as fast as in his younger days, McCall still manages to take out everyone in the office without breaking a sweat. As he tells the head mobster afterwards, "You should have taken the money." Of course, this is only the beginning. The head honcho over in Russian sends his top fixer (Teddy as played by Marton Csokas) to solve the problem. Even with him and a hand-picked crew of killers, they're no match for Denzel Washington, especially with the final sequence in a Home Depot. As Denzel Washington's ex-CIA handler tells her husband. "McCall wasn't coming to me for information. He was coming to get permission to kill them." That is when we learn that McCall's late wife died of cancer, and then he staged his own death so could leave the CIA without any problems. He also has a very special relationship with his handler (Susan Plummer) that reminded of the kind a mother and son usually have. The Equalizer did so well at the Box Office that the movie studio that made it, green-lighted the sequel. That usually takes a year or longer, but not this time. We should hopefully have another Equalizer film out in 2016. The regular DVD doesn't have much in the way of extras on it. It certainly has more than John Wick, but what little there is can be watched in ten minutes. I've read that the Blu-ray has more in the way of special features to watch, so I guess I'm going to have to get that one, too. Otherwise, a great action movie!

Denzel Washington is spectacular in this film. The acting, the directing, a the production are all fantastic. I've watched it many times and I like it despite some things that are just "ludicrous". No spoilers so I won't go into detail except to say the big showdown near the end of the film will make you realize how preposterous this is before this big scene is over. I can't give this five stars because I thought some things were as silly as they were creative. But overall, this movie is very entertaining and I recommend it.

Good movie

I don't write long reviews for two reasons, most movies don't warrant them, and other people think highly enough of their opinions they cover that niche well enough there is no need for me to contribute. I only point that out because I'd like to write a long review here and detail just how incredible I found this movie, especially for the genre it hails from. Action movies are an interesting breed, they can be engaging, from any number of perspectives, but ultimately the question is "what was the body count?" The Equalizer, is in my opinion, one of those rare action flicks that engages you on multiple levels and has a sizable body count. Denzel's character is as deep as he needs to be, you get the point, he was a bad man for the Government for a long time, he's a little older now, he's suffered some personal tragedy, and he's just trying to live a quiet life forgetting all that. But, sometimes you are faced with a situation you can't ignore, because you're the only one that cares enough to fix it. That's the point here. I really found it very interesting, because it's essentially a tale about how heroes never really quit being heroes, and the worst of us can use our experiences to the betterment of the world. Nearly every action film you see, is the young guy, fresh out of the academy, saving the world and winning the girl. Denzel's character I think is obviously that guy from many other movies, but 20-30 years later. After he got the girl, after he saved the world, after he was tired, after she died, after he just wanted to melt into obscurity. But the right situation calls him out again, he might not be the guy that saves the world anymore, but dismantling a single organization? Yeah, he can do that, and make it wonderfully entertaining. I highly suggest this film, I'm usually not super smitten with action films, and tend to rate really good ones in the 3-4 star category depending on whether or not the selling point was combat or explosions. This has both of those, on top of great characters (who could have honestly used a little more depth, I would have liked it if they'd explained some of the Russian culture displayed on Teddy) and a lot of very concise, to the point violence, displayed by both the protagonist, and the antagonist, in ways that further display who they are. Order some pizza, some drinks, get a pretty woman to hang out with you, and watch this on a low key Friday night for full effect.