True Justice

Rating: 7/10 (23 October 2014)

Based on a TV show from the 80's but with some changes (McCall was a British SAS ex-operative, not an American), comes this remake directed by Antoine Fuqua (Olympus Has Fallen, 2013). Denzel Washington is Robert McCall, a former CIA operative that is morally compelled to go back into action to help a lady in distress. Though it looks like "The A-Team", it is surprisingly deep in terms of character motivation, and those characters are way better performed than the standard blockbuster movies.
Fuqua is reunited with Washington after "Training" Day, (2001), the film that got him an Oscar award as best leading actor. Fuqua has made some major blockbusters but all of them very well crafted and full of deep-layered characters that reach you ("King Arthur", 2004) or "Shooter" (2007), both blockbusters that were also critically acclaimed.
He usually gets to work with solid cast, and this time is no different: Chloë Grace Moretz (Dark Shadows, 2012) or Marton Csokas (Lord of the Rings, 2001-2003) or "The Bourne Supremacy" (2004) support Washington, and they both deliver (Csokas is great as a crazy Russian operative).
Bottom line, a great action movie, the kind you watch all over again every time is on TV. Let's not kid ourselves, if we had to choose a film to take with us to an isolated island, we would not choose a David Lynch or a Hitchcock film, but something like this or the Lethal Weapon saga. 'Nuff said.