Slow-Paced, Dull, Cliché Action Movie

Rating: 4/10 (22 October 2015)

I'm not a particularly big fan of movies like this, where action drives the story over characters or plot itself. However, I heard this one was good, and the ratings were good enough, so I watched it. As you can see by my rating, that didn't go down well.
The Equalizer is nothing special. It's got a lame plot that's probably been used hundreds of times (I wouldn't know because I don't typically watch these kinds of movies), and it's just overall not interesting.
Now with a title like 'The Equalizer' and a cover like the one it has, how could I expect a good story, right? I mean, I'm being unreasonable, aren't I? In that sense, yes, but I didn't go into this movie expecting an Oscar winner. I expected an overdone action movie, and dang, this movie did not deliver. The action was slow and excruciatingly boring. There was absolutely nothing special or unique about it. Now I understand it's hard to have unique violence these days, considering how many action movies there are, but it felt like they didn't even try. It was all just very dull and boring to watch, despite the punches and resourcefulness that Washington's character displayed.
The characters themselves...well, there's really only one, and he's probably the most lame action hero I've ever seen. The Terminator was at least entertaining to watch, and John Wick at least had a significant focus on his past. The Equalizer himself just felt unoriginal. He's the most stereotypical hero ever, and nothing about him is interesting. The supporting characters are underdeveloped and I really felt like I couldn't care less about what happened to them in the end.
Overall, The Equalizer is just a big waste of time. Like I said, I haven't seen a heck of a lot of action movies like this, but I've seen enough to know that there is absolutely nothing special about this one. There wasn't even an attempt at originality, and Washington's character felt like a total idiot throughout the entire thing, and that fact was probably the most development he ever got. In the end, The Equalizer was, like I said, a waste of time. I don't know how else to describe it. If you want to watch a good, or at least enjoyable, action movie, watch Kill Bill or The Terminator (Judgement Day), both of which are infinitely better. I would not recommend this movie to you, but if you really want to watch it, then go right ahead. I won't say it was awful, but it just failed to deliver on so many levels, all of which totaled up to just a bad movie.