Man on Fire + Eastern Promises = The Equalizer

Rating: 8/10 (1 November 2014)

Don't get me wrong, I loved Man on Fire and Eastern Promises, they are two of my favorites. But are there really no new ideas in Hollywood ? This film is a formulaic rehash of two ten year old action movies. Denzel does an excellent job of beating up bad guys, for a sixty year old man that is. But fo reals, can even a CIA-trained killer really hold his own against FSB-trained killers half his age ? Denzel was falling apart in Man on Fire, and that was ten years ago ! I'm not saying that this film is bad, because it isn't. There is a surprising amount of character development for a movie of this genre. But in my opinion it stretches the believability factor due to Denzel's age. It's like a 60-something Sean Connery bangin' twenty-something hotties in the Bond films. Wait a minute....