The Equalizer 2 * * *
These days I go to the Barbers. I used to do that thirty odd years ago, then all the barbers started disappearing and a man had to get his hair cut at a "Unisex Salon". Now Barber shops are back with a vengeance.
So snipping at my locks the other day the barber asked me what films I'd seen lately (he knows he's wasting his time talking soccer to me). He hadn't seen any of the movies I'd seen but he recommended Equalizer 2 for the action (Tom only likes action movies). I remember the first Equalizer from three or four years ago which I thought was a pretty good shoot-em-up, smack-em-up, vengeance film, so I thought why not?
Denzel Washington (looking good for a man in his sixties) plays Robert (Bob) McCall a retired special ops/intelligence agent - except he can't really let himself retire from putting wrong to right. So despite working as a regular Jo at the local hardware store, or as a Lyft driver, he finds the time to kill bad people - most of whom deserve it, so you'll have no trouble cheering him on.
It starts off in Turkey (I don't know where Bob gets his money from) where he sorts out a child kidnapper on a train just so we can get a taste of the kind of man we are dealing with.
Then it's back to Boston and his modest lifestyle in a community housing project, including giving life lessons to a good lad teetering on becoming a bad one and doing other good deeds, like sorting out a bunch of rich young professional men who think a girl can be violated for their amusement.
It would help if you have seen the first Equalizer especially as the catalyst of the main plot is the assassination of Bob's friend who prominently featured in the first Equalizer. Unfortunately it does see-saw and get diverted a bit. But there are some pleasingly tense scenes as Bob closes in on the people responsible for his friends death. Yet, somehow it all seems to go for for too long.
I found the the final section both clever and frustrating. It is set in a deserted town in the middle of a hurricane with four very determined assassins up against Bob. An interesting situation put to good effect.
One-man vigilante squad films have been around for ever. Other than Rambo they seemed to loose popularity in the eighties, but like your local barber shop they're back. Make what you will of that.
So snipping at my locks the other day the barber asked me what films I'd seen lately (he knows he's wasting his time talking soccer to me). He hadn't seen any of the movies I'd seen but he recommended Equalizer 2 for the action (Tom only likes action movies). I remember the first Equalizer from three or four years ago which I thought was a pretty good shoot-em-up, smack-em-up, vengeance film, so I thought why not?
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It starts off in Turkey (I don't know where Bob gets his money from) where he sorts out a child kidnapper on a train just so we can get a taste of the kind of man we are dealing with.
Then it's back to Boston and his modest lifestyle in a community housing project, including giving life lessons to a good lad teetering on becoming a bad one and doing other good deeds, like sorting out a bunch of rich young professional men who think a girl can be violated for their amusement.
It would help if you have seen the first Equalizer especially as the catalyst of the main plot is the assassination of Bob's friend who prominently featured in the first Equalizer. Unfortunately it does see-saw and get diverted a bit. But there are some pleasingly tense scenes as Bob closes in on the people responsible for his friends death. Yet, somehow it all seems to go for for too long.
I found the the final section both clever and frustrating. It is set in a deserted town in the middle of a hurricane with four very determined assassins up against Bob. An interesting situation put to good effect.
One-man vigilante squad films have been around for ever. Other than Rambo they seemed to loose popularity in the eighties, but like your local barber shop they're back. Make what you will of that.
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