I Can't Trust a Denzel Washington Movie Anymore

Rating: 2/10 (25 September 2014)

Sad. This was barely a notch above a Steven Seagal movie. But worse, it had Denzel Washington in it. That hurt me.
The movie was as cliché' and stupid as most action movies. This one seemed slightly unique in its bland of the revenge porn template with a slasher gore thing. Only the slasher was the protagonist.
Seeing Washington put a screwdriver into the back of someone's skull, then pull the trigger, was truly the low point of his career. But it was also another low point in mainstream American film.
The moral inversion is almost complete. We have serial killers as heroes. Why not a madman with power tools.
This kind of violence is supposed to be funny. The chainsaw massacre, so over the top, you laugh out loud. But what Antoine Fuqua has done with this movie is attached psychopathic bloodletting with the cause of justice. And this isn't just bloodletting. Mel Gibson perfected that years ago.
This is psychopathic bloodletting. By another American psychopathic hero.