Good Action Movie

Rating: 7/10 (26 September 2014)

I saw "The Equalizer", starring Denzel Washington-The Book of Eli, St. Elsewhere_tv; Chloe Grace Moretz-Carrie_2013, the Kick Ass movies; David Meunier-Justified_tv, The Incredible Hulk_2008 and Marton Csokas-The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Bourne Supremacy.
This is based on the 1985-1989 TV series of the same name that starred Edward Woodward. If you are not a TV nut like I am, you probably have never heard of it, but I used to enjoy it. The basic premise is that the Equalizer is a retired spy that helps people that the police can not. The movie is directed by Antoine Fuqua, who also did Olympus Has Fallen and Training Day. Denzel plays Robert McCall, a retired spy that now works at Home Mart, a hardware store-I guess they could not use the name, Home Depot. You can tell that he has OCD-obsessive compulsive disorder-and likes to keep on a tight time schedule-he is always checking his watch and timing things. He befriends Chloe, a hooker that wants to be a singer. David is her Russian pimp and slaps her around a little but makes a big mistake of doing it in front of Denzel. After Denzel shows David some of his old skills, the Russian mobster's boss sends Marton from the motherland to take care of Denzel. The movie is a little slow at first-like most good origin stories are-but when it gets going, the action is good and violent-just the way I like my action movies. It ends with a sequel in mind and they even tip their hat to the TV show by showing how he gets future clients. It's rated "R" for violence, language and sexual situations-no nudity- and has a running time of 2 hours & 11 minutes. I enjoyed it and would buy it on Blu-Ray.