peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2017 05 02 TheEqualizer

The Equalizer (2014)

Tue, May 02, 2017./noise/movies | Link

I've been meaning to watch more of Denzel Washington's movies since forever. This one suggests that for all his good and early hard work he's slipped into a comfortable formula of vigilantism, the man with the secret (violent) past who really just wants to help. They play New Dawn Fades late on, just before the credits, which of course was but one aspect of the far richer Heat from almost twenty years previous. And that was indeed Chloë Grace Moretz playing the Russian sex slave, showing just how far she's come from Kick Ass. Really just a sop to those who pine for B-Movies (ala Gil Scott Heron).