The Equalizer (Feature)

The movie that started a good three movie series and all of the are well done, intriguing, good cast. But I am never disappointed by Denzel Washington, you can depend on him to pick good project and bring to them a life the few actors can deliver. The Russian mobster were wicked enough and, and the main bad guy is particulary good, that actor is always good too.

Great film for Denzel. He plays this part so well.

I’m a big fan of the movie!

This is a great action movie but its also an intense drama, because its Denzel Washington, one of the all time best actors in existence. He goes for the gold in every role.

wonderful movie. lost body count at about 25......

I purchased The Equalizer on the strength of Denzel Washington and the direction of Antoine Fuqua, as well as the supposed "retro action" feel. I was not disappointed. This is a solid action film with great characters and a strong, violent sense of action. If you like retro style revenge flicks you can't go wrong here. Denzel is always reliable and he does great work here. The main character is a morally conflicted veteran who forums a plan in seconds and executes that plan with ruthless efficiency. Washington plays all this out on his face with expressions, speaking only when he has to and his words feel almost like a punch themselves. There are scenes in this movie that stand up to the best drama writing and performance, like the diner scene between Washington and a young female friend who sets him on his path, or a stunning verbal confrontation near the end between Washington and the film's main villain. The whole film reminds you of when action movies were as much about the characters and words as they were the explosions. When the action does come, it comes hard. This film isn't as gory as true 80's classics, but it's much more visceral than most modern action fare. You feel the stabbings, you flinch when someone gets a glass to the eye. The action hitting you as hard as it does underlines the sense of righteous anger, as does Washington's barely subdued expressions of inner rage. The blu ray is great to look at, as any new release film should be. Crisp detail, excellent blacks. There is a scene toward the end of the movie, depicted on the cover, that looks amazing on blu ray. Sound is strong, very good dynamic range without blowing the roof off randomly. Be aware of a strong bass line during the action scenes that is stronger than the rest of the soundtrack. Special features are the normal fare for a newer movie, a few featurettes that cover things in a promotional way. The standout for me was "rage mode," which is Denzel and Fuqua talking about the scene you're about to watch before you watch it. They make some interesting and fun comments, and you can skip directly to these interview scenes if you want to. Overall I was very happy with my purchase of The Equalizer. If you're into retro 70's and 80's style action and revenge flicks of a the more serious nature then you will probably love The Equalizer. On top of being a solid and visceral action film it also has great writing and performances which bring a movie like this to a higher level.

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!

Good movie

......wäre die Welt wenigstens ein bisschen heiler! Nicht wahr, liebe Suchende? " Hab` gehört, sie liegt auf der Intensiv- Station- man hat sie übel zugerichtet. " Würde sich mal jeder um seinen Nächsten kümmern, würde der Nächste nicht wahrhaftig jedem am A.... vorbeigehen- ja, dann hätten wir nicht so einen Dreck...wie er momentan in unserer Welt abgeht. Und da regt man sich auf, wenn ein Einzelner etwas tut, wenn ihm der Kragen platzt..... für das Gute in dieser Welt. Hallo? Geht`s denn überhaupt noch?? " Du hast echt Eier, hier aufzukreuzen. " Denzel Washington ist der Hammer. Eh ein Garant für anspruchsvolle Filme. Und genau das liefert er in THE EQUALIZER wieder ab! Und ist für diese Rolle hier, diese nervenzerrende " Reinigung " eine Offenbarung! Fakt! Die Charakter der Bösewichte sind absolut gut gewählt, kommen authentisch rüber. So unerbittlich und schonungslos ist der Abscheulichkeit lange nicht mehr der Garaus gemacht worden. ".......26.....27....28....- es tut mir leid. " " Sind Sie bereit, für Ihre Freunde zu sterben? " - " Sind Sie es? " Story Top, Darsteller Top. Sound megaTop. *************************************************************** Story: McCall ( Denzel Washington ) möchte mit seiner Vergangenheit abschließen- ein ruhiges leben führen. Doch dann trifft er Teri ( Chloe Grace Moretz ), die in den Fängen gewalttätiger, russischer Gangster festhängt. Denn McCalls Sinn für Gerechtigkeit ist stark- wer ein Problem hat, sich nicht wehren kann......... gegen den sich das Schicksal verschworen hat, dem kein anderer und niemand hilft- der lernt die geheimen Fähigkeiten McCall` s kennen. Er ist da- er...ist der Equalizer. ******************************************************************************************* Meine! Meinung, mein!Fazit: " Ich hab` nicht viel Zeit- du hast gar keine. " Ruhig inszeniert und dadurch ungemein interessanter Spannungsaufbau. Ein Racheengel, den sich insgeheim viele Menschen wünschen. Weil sie selber zu schwach sind, trotz eventuellen Gerechtigkeitssinnes. Oder genug Mut. Wären sie nur ein einziges Mal richtig ehrlich. Zu sich selber. Ich habe mir THE EQUALIZER praktisch direkt zweimal reingezogen. Weil ich so gar nicht und nicht glauben konnte, was ich da sah. Denzel Washington spielt die Rolle perfekter als perfekt. Der, der sich einsetzt für diejenigen, denen sonst keiner zuhört. Unkonventionell, derb und trocken. Und konsequent- mit einmaliger Mimik. Intensiv und überzeugend. Objektiv und distanziert. Er kennt dieses Mädchen kaum. Aber er hilft ihr- WEIL ER ES KANN. Einen Weg aus ihrem Leben zu finden. Mit Herz..... und Brutalität. Was, verdammt, ist daran falsch? " Was ist passiert? " - " Hab` in was Dummes geschlagen. " Völlig egal, völlig gleich...WER aufräumt. Superman...Ironman....Herkules........ oder was weiß ich für ein, unser, Held. Hauptsache, er TUT was. Hauptsache, es tut überhaupt einer mal was. Da schreien wir doch HURRA! Und ziehen diese selbstlosen Menschen, Mitmenschen nicht in den Dreck. Ist das so schwer? Zu begreifen? Und die Nörgler sind in meinen Augen total verlogen. Die ewige Meckerei ist echt nicht mehr zu tolerieren. Aber man nimmt es hin. Wie so vieles andere auch. " Es geht los! " Genau. Und es ist ein Film. Und ein klasse Film dazu. Macht euch Gedanken. Leider nur ein Film! Lauflänge: 126.35 Minuten ( mit Abspann, der die Gänsehaut lange nicht verfliegen lässt. Lange nicht)!! Extras: - Kinder der Nacht= 5.07 Minuten ( Top )!! - Im Baumarkt: HEIMWERKER- WAFFEN!! Top!! FÜNF Sterne. Die wissen, was sie tun!

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The Equalizer film, Blu Ray, BBFC Certificate 15, Region B PAL. A very well made thriller, trimmed for a 15 Certificate, and the better for it! I saw this when it was first released, and the savage, brutal, violence appalled me, going beyond even a Steven Seagal revenge thriller! I bought this after number 2 , also a 15 Certificate, which i preferred over number 1, and still do. Knowing it had edits which hadn't enraged cinema and home media viewers, and in the press, as was the case in the 80's and 90's as the BBFC were zealous in protecting the viewing public from director George Romero, Steven Seagal, Lethal Weapon 2 - and thereby creating a huge market in imported US laserdiscs and Region 1 dvds without cuts. Pros: Denzel Washington, atmospheric music score, cinematography, action set pieces. Negative: taking on the Russian mafia...and winning? Really? The Russian military fought the Chechens for 10 years, in one campaign, and those people are hard! So a far fetched adventure, although enjoyable. No Stuart Copeland Equalizer TV series theme tune in the end titles. (The Equalizer FSK 18 uncut version is available in Region 2 PAL Germany, and Region US 1/A. But be wary if your multi-regional Blu Ray player will play multi-regional DVDs as well, as my 3 - 2018 Samsung, older LG, and German Panasonic DMP BDT180 don't! I did read of a mortified UK buyer who complained that his didn't play, and was told that the German FSK 18 did not play because he didn't have a German player!) Denzel Washington recently agreed to make 2 more Equalizer films.

Le duo du génial “Training day” : Antoine Fuqua / Denzel Washington se reforme pour cette adaptation de la série éponyme des années 80. “Equalizer” est un personnage qui pourrait être une sorte de Jason Bourne, mais qui aurait pris sa retraite et qui mènerait une vie monotone et sans réelle attache amicale ou amoureuse. Le martyre d’une jeune prostituée avec laquelle il entretenait une relation amicale distante va le faire basculer dans son ancienne vie pour venger cette dernière, malheureusement McCall ignore à qui il s’est réellement attaqué et les gangsters qui lui donnent la chasse sont aussi implacables que dangereusement efficaces. Si la réalisation d’Antoine Fuqua est comme dans “Training Day” d’une rare efficacité, parvenant à rendre ce film de baston et de revenge beaucoup plus intéressant qu’un simple film d’action, la grande réussite du personnage revient sans conteste à l’interprétation tout en sobriété de Denzel Washington qui n’avait pas été aussi bon depuis un moment dans un film d’action. Bien que le passé de son personnage soit plutôt évident à deviner, l’acteur ne sur-joue jamais, ni dans un sens (homme effacé) ni dans un autre (super guerrier), l'attitude de McCall, il reste toujours sur la frontière entre intensité et affectation de jeu. Alors, il faut être honnête ce n’est pas non plus le film d’action de l’année, il y a beaucoup trop de poncifs du genre dedans, mais la sobriété du personnage principal et la très bonne mise en scène à la fois énergique et sans fioritures en font un des films d’action les plus réussis de l’année. Il est apparemment prévu une suite, espérons que les bonnes bases de ce premier volet seront conservées et que le deuxième apportera un peu plus au personnage et qu’il ne sera pas qu’une occasion pour le studio et les producteurs de se remplir les poches sur la bonne réputation de ce premier opus. Un film d’action très bien réalisé et interprété qui sans faire dans l’inédit offre un spectacle de qualité. À voir sans hésitation.