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Best sheer escapist movie entertainment I've had all year.
I know that since (according to seaoat) I'm a bigot who hates every minority including black people, I'm not supposed to express this opinion.
But when it comes to the sheer coolness factor, with this role I'd put Denzel Washington up against any white male actor working in hollywood today.
Of course I'm a little biased because I'm a fan of this particular movie genre, the vigilante movie.
Denzel's character is a cross between Paul Kersey (Bronson in the Death Wish series) and The Man With No Name (Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns).
But this time it's not the vigilante vs black thugs like in Death Wish.
This time it's a black vigilante and his ex-CIA white colleagues against the crooked cops and russian mobsters running Boston.
And it never slows down. Brilliantly executed from opening to ending credits. And it so deftly builds the whole thing around the screen personality of Denzel Washington. And what you come away with is the thought that Denzel Washington has provided a helluva role model for young blacks with this character. Loved everything about it.
The final sequence, the climax of the story, is one of the most entertaining and riveting I've seen in movies yet.
Of course the story is all purely fiction and totally implausible, but it doesn't pretend to be anything else.
Plus a lot of it is set inside a Home Depot store. What's not to like.
Roger Ebert had his two thumbs. I have my "sleep-o-meter". It measures how many minutes I doze during a movie.
With Equalizer the needle on the sleep-o-meter never moved. Not even a yawn.
I know that since (according to seaoat) I'm a bigot who hates every minority including black people, I'm not supposed to express this opinion.
But when it comes to the sheer coolness factor, with this role I'd put Denzel Washington up against any white male actor working in hollywood today.
Of course I'm a little biased because I'm a fan of this particular movie genre, the vigilante movie.
Denzel's character is a cross between Paul Kersey (Bronson in the Death Wish series) and The Man With No Name (Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns).
But this time it's not the vigilante vs black thugs like in Death Wish.
This time it's a black vigilante and his ex-CIA white colleagues against the crooked cops and russian mobsters running Boston.
And it never slows down. Brilliantly executed from opening to ending credits. And it so deftly builds the whole thing around the screen personality of Denzel Washington. And what you come away with is the thought that Denzel Washington has provided a helluva role model for young blacks with this character. Loved everything about it.
The final sequence, the climax of the story, is one of the most entertaining and riveting I've seen in movies yet.
Of course the story is all purely fiction and totally implausible, but it doesn't pretend to be anything else.
Plus a lot of it is set inside a Home Depot store. What's not to like.
Roger Ebert had his two thumbs. I have my "sleep-o-meter". It measures how many minutes I doze during a movie.
With Equalizer the needle on the sleep-o-meter never moved. Not even a yawn.
Last edited by Bob on 1/9/2015, 8:18 pm; edited 3 times in total
