Denzel still delivers.

Rating: 7/10 (26 September 2014)

While not being somewhat outstanding, The Equalizer is still a potent, albeit a bit too slow-paced, action movie. The plot, obviously, is not very original, so the main question was how good it would be executed.The result is mostly satisfying, among the strong sides I'd name: of course Denzel Washington, who never disappoints (although his other movies I've seen were better), gory action and the overall classic action movie feel to it - the hero is super bad-ass, always walking slowly, dispensing kickassery and not looking at explosions, while the villain is properly menacing and ruthless. The movie's not without flaws, and shaky camera work during action scenes, overly slow pacing and the stereotypical bad guys are among them. (Russian gangsters with cheesy tattoos, lots of vodka and tons of Kremlin and Red Square pictures) Despite that, the movie manages to hold its own and be worth your time and money. It's quite refreshing to watch an old-school bad- ass-distributing-justice movie after all those comic book adaptations and the rule "Denzel doesn't play in bad movies" still works.