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Rating: 7/10 (4 January 2015)

The Equalizer
If you're going to call yourself an Equalizer you had better have some remarkably accurate measuring cups.
Mind you, it's not a recipe the stranger in this action movie is trying to balance, but the scales of justice.
After witnessing a pimp abuse his friend (Chloë Grace Moretz), former CIA operative Bob McCall (Denzel Washington) murders the pimp and five others.
His actions alert the Russian mob boss (Vladimir Kulich) running the prostitution and racketeering rings in the neighbourhood. In turn, he sends in ex-Spetsnaz (Marton Csokas) to kill McCall.
But in order to do that, the specialist must survive McCall's carefully orchestrated counterstrikes against him.
Based on the '80s TV show, this take on the revenge-for-hire premise lacks character development and depth, but it makes up for both in stylish violence and restrained bravado.
Plus, with the Russians out of the way, the Asian gangs can now move in.
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