There's A New Face To Justice: The Equalizer.

Rating: 10/10 (29 December 2014)

Denzel Washington has been a favorite of mine since my teens. With hit movies like Philadephia, The Pelican Brief, Fallen, John Q, Virtuosity, Crimson Tide, Man On Fire, The Hurricane, Deja Vu, Training Day, American Gangster, The Book Of Eli, Inside Man, The Bone Collector, Malcolm X, Mississippi Masala, Heart Condition and Ricochet, he has won a place in the hearts of all cinema lovers.
This film is an intense action thriller about a man who is trying to protect the ones he loves and fighting against evil in whatever form it may be. Be it pimps, drug-dealers, corrupt cops - the Equalizer has an answer to all.
In this film Denzel plays the role of Robert McCall a retired black ops government operative who lives in Boston, Massachusetts and works at a Home Mart hardware store, where he befriends many of his co-workers and also tries to help a security guard trainee named Ralphie pass his qualification exam. McCall has promised his recently deceased wife that he'd leave his old life behind, but is compelled to act after his teenage friend Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz) whose real name is Alina, was seen being mistreated by her pimp. Alina's life was destroyed at the age of five or six when she was a victim of sex trafficking by the Russian Mafia and then became their sex slave and forced into prostitution.
Robert vows to save her after she is hospitalized after being brutally beaten by her pimp, Slavi (David Meunier). McCall enters a restaurant owned by the Russian mob and tries to convince Slavi to release Alina by paying him $9800, but Slavi refuses. Find out what happens next...
The film is directed by veteran director Antoine Fuqua who has directed acclaimed films like Training Day as well as The Replacement Killers, Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter, Brooklyn's Finest, Olympus Has Fallen. The good thing about him is that with each film he keeps getting better and he adapts to the style of film.
Denzel Washington gives a very powerful performance as a man who is pushed to the limits and has no other option but to retaliate with extreme force. Opposite him is equally good actor Marton Paul Csokas who has starred in films like xXx, Evilenko(a must see film!), Æon Flux, and Kingdom of Heaven. Marton plays as an enforcer to the Russian crime-lord Vladimir Pushkin.
The film has intense action scenes filled with graphic violence and so it is only suitable for persons over 18 years. The background music, cinematography and script is top-notch and well polished. To my belief, I did not see any plot-holes in the film - it is a solid action thriller which will become a cult-classic as one of the later films in Denzel Washington's career.