A bit off target

Rating: 6/10 (5 January 2015)

Antoine Fuqua's 'The Equalizer' is skillfully made and boasts a strong cast, led by the always great Denzel Washington, but as I was watching it I couldn't shake the feeling that it just wasn't quite clicking the way it should. Like a high performance sports car with a bad piston.
I did appreciate that it took its time building up to the point where Denzel inevitably begins equalizing, but after he's pulled back into the world he'd thought he'd left behind, it seems like everyone in his life suddenly finds themselves in need of his special talents and the story begins to lose its focus and momentum. Perhaps this premise is just better suited to episodic television.
Despite all this, I would say that 'The Equalizer' is definitely worth a watch and I'd be up for a sequel now that the groundwork has been laid.