Amazing in its prescience of Russian meddling

Rating: 9/10 (10 October 2017)

Odds against you? Need help? Indeed, the Hillary Clinton campaign could have called upon the Equalizer to battle against the Russian- led fake news in the 2016 presidential campaign. Just in case you're wondering, Miriam Webster defines prescience as "foreknowledge of events" and it seemed this 2014 blockbuster really seemed to have its finger on the pulse when it came to the Russian gangsters who are infecting the American social fabric.
I'm a huge fan of The Equalizer TV series, and this movie carries on the fine tradition that's for sure. No messing around by McCall. He gets the job done, delivers justice and rails against police corruption. Perhaps in the sequel he can also rail against the TSA agents who like to pick on minorities, and maybe McCall deliver his own kind of justice to them.
Melissa Leo and Bill Pullman play former CIA operatives, and it's good to know Melissa's character can beat rush hour traffic by getting a lift home in a helicopter. It beats having to encounter the TSA brutes at the airport.