The Equalizer 2 (2018)
Director: Antoin Fuqua. (15)
Thriller/Suspense/Film noir
Rating: 4/5 - very good lots to enjoy
Synopsis
Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) is a retired CIA Black-Ops who has pursued a double life. On the surface he is an unassuming, mild-mannered cab driver. Underneath he is a vigilante hero, deeply determined to pursue justice for the weak and disempowered.
When his close friend and supporter (Melissa Leo) is beaten to death in a Brussels hotel room, he sets about seeking her killers while trying to rescue Miles (Ashton Sanders), a promising art student who is at risk of falling into the clutches of drug dealers.
Review by Jason Day (@Reelreviewer)
Despite my plaintive bleatings on this very website about how much I loathe the macho action-thriller, I'm happy to report here on one that challenges and overturns my preconceptions about this sub-genre.
Perhaps it takes an actor of the calibre of Washington, manly without being an annoying alpha-male, sensitive without being melodramatically emotional, to grasp and maintain my attention. With what could have been derivative clap-trap, he is able to craft a meaningful actionneer with subtle nuances.
Supporting him is the estimable Ashton Sanders who impressed so much as the teenage, troubled Chiron in the dazzling Oscar winning Moonlight (2016).
Director Antoine Fuqua sorts the wheat from the chaff in this at times contemplative, then explosively but grippingly violent film, that none the less always commands your attention.
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Cast & credits
Director: Antoine Fuqua. 2hrs 21 mins/121 mins (1Columbia Pictures/Escape Artists/Fuqua Films/Lonetree Entertainment/Mace Neufeld Productions/Sony Pictures Entertainment/ZHIV Productions. (15)
Producers: Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Tony Eldridge, Antoine Fuqua, Mace Neufeld, Alex Siskin, Michael Sloan, Steve Tisch, Denzel Washington.
Writer: Richard Wenk.
Camera: Oliver Wood.
Music: Harry Gregson-Williams.
Sets: Naomi Shohan.
Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, Orson Bean, Bill Pullman, Melissa Leo, Jonathan Scarfe, Sakina Jaffrey, Kazy Taguinas, Garrett Golden.
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