Rarely does a Hollywood movie comes around that makes you relish the idea of wasting 2 hours of your precious time. This is one of those instances. Trust me like you trust your account this time of year - its money/time well spent bro. As a writer I'm character driven, but not obsessive because everybody is unique; nobody fits the cookie cutter mold. However, if the storyline out shines the characters, which it doesn't in this example, then I'm interested.
Coming from the brother Antoine Fuqa who directed Training Day, King Author, and Olympus Has Fallen, it follows in the same vein when it comes to meaningful action - so yeah, blood gets spilled and Russians get their heads blown off. But, more importantly, Fuqa pulls it together with a sense of purpose. It aint just murder, murder, murder, kill, kill, kill.
At the core of the movie its about a man (played by Denzel) with military skills who uses them to protect the weak and the underclass from being picked on, ripped off, and exploited by corrupt mobsters and crooked cops. That's what we don't see much of these days coming from weirdo tinsel town. I won't lie, there was a particular scene that had me a little choked up. In it, two cops shake down an immigrant woman who struggles to keep her restaurant open. When Mr Washington finds out he comes to the rescue by beating the shit out of them. (This movie should win the Oscar for best picture, I swear). The other co-stars that make this movie click are; Cloe Grace Moretz, who plays a whore in need of salvation (no surprise there but she was believable) and Marton Csokas as Teddy, a psychotic Russian enforcer - that nuh craaay for real.
The movie works for me. It had all the right elements and a positive theme - do not pick on the weak. It also shows a black man in a Alpha male role and NOT wearing a dress, or playing ball. That's about all you can ask for these days until we can find financing and distribution for our own films. That's a tough job that we need a divine Equalizer for.
*Side note - the original Equalizer was an old TV show by the same name.
At the core of the movie its about a man (played by Denzel) with military skills who uses them to protect the weak and the underclass from being picked on, ripped off, and exploited by corrupt mobsters and crooked cops. That's what we don't see much of these days coming from weirdo tinsel town. I won't lie, there was a particular scene that had me a little choked up. In it, two cops shake down an immigrant woman who struggles to keep her restaurant open. When Mr Washington finds out he comes to the rescue by beating the shit out of them. (This movie should win the Oscar for best picture, I swear). The other co-stars that make this movie click are; Cloe Grace Moretz, who plays a whore in need of salvation (no surprise there but she was believable) and Marton Csokas as Teddy, a psychotic Russian enforcer - that nuh craaay for real.
The movie works for me. It had all the right elements and a positive theme - do not pick on the weak. It also shows a black man in a Alpha male role and NOT wearing a dress, or playing ball. That's about all you can ask for these days until we can find financing and distribution for our own films. That's a tough job that we need a divine Equalizer for.
*Side note - the original Equalizer was an old TV show by the same name.
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