Good movie, could have been better

Rating: 7/10 (17 July 2015)

Older black John Wick does good things for people as the antagonist from xXx hunts him down.
In all seriousness The Equalizer has some good action, good cinematography at times, and it was entertaining. I marked it down because some of the dialog is not delivered great, and the story was a little generic and predictable.
The way John Wick handles it by not screwing around with a story and just getting right into was the way it should be done. The story of this felt like it was trying to give him a purpose to do these things, when you could have just done them from one incident.
It also tries to tell you why he got out of the businesses, they give you his whole backstory. John Wick implies it, which it great, it leaves some mystery.
Overall, good movie, but John Wick did it better. I won't be buying it, but will probably watch it a second or third time. If Nicolas Winding Refn would have stayed and directed it, it would have been great.