Small Screen action on the Big Screen

Rating: 5/10 (12 January 2015)

We all make mistakes. One of my greatest failings (if you ask ME, that is) is that I often rent or pay to see a movie without double-checking the credits. I sat through THE EQUALIZER because I think Denzel Washington is one of the finest actors of his generation and because I'd often enjoyed the teleseries upon which this movie was based. It gets off to a slow start, with scenes as predictable (and just about as compelling) as, say, the opening scenes of an episode of an old television series... and it doesn't really make any Forward Progress. It's been quite some time since I saw an episode of the old teleshow, so I'm not going to say one's better than the other, but I WILL say that I expected a lot more from this movie than it delivers. Washington is wasted here. THE EQUALIZER is standard "action fare" of the televariety- nothing more.