Denzel Washington is Badass.

Rating: 7/10 (6 January 2015)

I saw this film a while back and I liked it but I do have some small problems with the film. First The good points. The film has good Fight scenes.Denzel Washington kicks Ass and takes names and he's fun to watch.he's also a calculating character,he was cool and collected but violent when he had to be. Watching Denzel Washington beat up gangsters was fun and seeing everything from his point of view was interesting. also the film was shot well and the music was good.
Bad points. The story was a bit shallow and most of the characters were shallow and had no character development.The bad guys were kind of Lame and the main villain was very over the top,they tried to make him look tough and psycho by having him beat the Stuffing out of one one man,but He was too over the top and Cartooney for my liking.He was also Never scary.
The film also had a slow start and The film lacked substance and the story was not great in fact the film did not have much of a story and to me those are its weakest points.(The lack of substance and lack of story).however there is still fun to be had with this film and I still enjoyed watching it. Denzel Washington saves the film and makes it a fun ride. Denzel gives a great performance as a retired special oops agent who has had a tough life and is tired of seeing bad things happen. You get the idea that his character is troubled and i felt bad for the guy its obvious that hes a guy that is sick of all the violence in the world and he wants to make a change. At the start of the film Denzel befriends a girl at a café called Teri played by(Chloe Grace Moretz).they get talking and they become Friends and that's one of the films positives,a good relationship was built up between these two characters and I started to like both of them.
One night Chloe graces character gets slapped and Taken away and Denzil sees it happen and Later in the film Denzel goes to the place the men are staying.Teri is a slave and he offers to pay them money if they free the girl. This was personally one of my favourite scenes in the film because the gangsters don't take him seriously,they laugh at him and they tell him to leave and Denzel pretends to leave but then he comes back and Beats them all up!. He punches some he shoots some he stabs some hits some with glass cups and Denzel totally annihilated them! in one of the best scenes in the movie.he even shoves a cork screw through one guys neck and kills him and the guy falls down flat on his face. I like how Denzel looks at his watch after and sees it only took him 19 seconds to kill them then he watches one guy die then he just calmly walks away like it never happened. It's scenes like that,that made the film entertaining.
What I liked about Denzels character was his cool and calm demeanour,he never seemed to get angry he never yelled he was always cool calm and calculated I liked that about him,he was a character that I think had a lot of anger bottled up inside him but he never let it out out by yelling he let it out through his actions by punishing sick people that deserve to do die which made him a vigilante type of guy,he was just a guy that wanted peace and he was tired of seeing bad things happen.
some people have said he had no reason for hurting so many people and those people have clearly missed the point because it's very obvious from the start why he's beating up gangsters and that's because they mistreated Chloes Character,they beat her up so badly she was in a hospital and Denzel obviously hates violence toward girls so he took a stand and I liked that he did that. Denzel basically just wants to kill evil people and that's exactly what he does in a planned out calculated way.
I was disappointed Chloe Grace was not in the film very long we mainly see her at the beginning of the Film and at the end and I would have liked to have seen more of her because I liked her,but that was not a big issue because Denzel is very Fun to watch and he Beats up bad guys Throughout the Film.
I have to admit I liked the second half of the film more than the first half which had too much talking but I thought the end more than made up for it when Denzel faces of against the Russian mafia at the home Mart store.people have complained about the Ending being too much like home alone and I don't get why that's a problem.I liked the Ending and I found it to be Very Gritty and intense because Denzel sets a bunch of traps up for the bad guys and then he takes them down one by one with tools like drills and Nail guns and barbed wire.
Denzil was very cool and a total Badass! In this Movie.Be warned the Ending is very Violent and over the top and bloody! but if your a Denzel Fan you should definitely give the film a watch.I found the film to be Okay and I would not mind watching it again.