How many times can you say "WOW"

Rating: Null/10 (11 October 2014)

My memory of "The Equalizer", was a late 80's television series of an older British actor named Edward Woodward, who specialized in helping people with seemingly unsolvable problems.
The late Richard Jordan, taken too early, round out the cast. It was a favored show.
This "EQUALIZER", with Denzel Washington, is no retread, but a completely different take on a man who if you were the opposition, would never want to challenge.
Many times it has been said this is like the good guy version of "Training Day". The only legitimate comparison is that gifted director Antoine Fuqua, was the director of each, and already had his main star's persona in his head, so 100% of Denzel's skills were on view.
This movie is not formulaic. Perhaps some of you never met the Russian Mafia from the comfort of your 9-5 jobs, but they are every bit the savage, seemingly unconcerned with consequences personalities, that would affect any human, not a sociopath without conscience or sense of morality.
Fuqua uses diametric opposites in order to sharpen this INTENSE, as accurate a word as I can muster, for this movie, which makes no compromises.
You have Denzel Washington's character, never fully explained, but clearly a former special forces commando. I go with NSA over Delta Force or Seals, as he shows a calculating non-remorse for the job he has taken on, avenging the beating of a Russian Prostitute who was left for dead, and to whom he had a common late night eatery as a bonding point.
Like Clark Kent, by day , McCall is an everyday "Home Mart" employee, well-liked for his hard work and concern for his fellow employees. But, like Bruce Wayne, when the former commando emerges, he takes no prisoners, leaves no walking wounded. Still, unlike any other action movie, his deeds all seem credible and believable.
In the end his fellow workers see the real Robert McCall, at the edge of your seat conclusion , the last 15 minutes of what turns out in the end, to be an epic movie in scope. He literally goes to the head of the snake after an unforgettable duel in the Home Mart, which might as well be the main street in any Western.
Always true to his sense of JUSTICE, good is good, bad is trash to be taken out, we are treated to a new genre sub-category, the super action film, an ordinary man, capable of extraordinary acts.
10 of ten for a can't miss winner, I guarantee you will like.