Retired CIA assassin Robert McCall finds peace in a secluded Italian village, but his violent past resurfaces when a local drug kingpin threatens the community. Denzel Washington delivers a powerful performance as McCall unleashes his deadly skills in a thrilling and brutal revenge story.
Following a violent encounter with Sicilian mobsters, retired CIA assassin Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) finds himself wounded by a stray bullet and recuperates in a secluded village in Naples. There, he slowly begins to find peace in himself. However, when a local drug kingpin desires control of the village for his own ends, McCall must go back to his violent ways with the help of a young analyst (Dakota Fanning). Washington may have found the genre character he was perhaps born to play.
What makes 'The Equalizer' so unique in comparison with other OAP actioners is that Washington doesn't have to sprint five miles or throw himself through plate-glass windows to get a rise out of the audience. Nor does it require the director - Antoine Fuqua, in this case - to constantly cut and edit around him in order to hide the stand-in doubles or the ropey CGI. Washington's screen presence and his menacing aura does so much more than any of that, and what's more, 'The Equalizer 3' is a better movie for it. The opening sequence sees Washington's character drive the barrel of a revolver through someone's eye-socket and then fire it off at someone else with the revolver still in situ. Later, he mercilessly stabs a helpless Italian henchman to death and leaves the knife jammed into the poor bastard's gullet for all to see. Compared to other movies of this ilk played by lesser actors, Washington really does go about his business on screen like a one-man death squad. Indeed, Antoine Fuqua straddles the line between superhero movie and horror movie with Washington's antics. The manner in which he brutalises criminals is sadistic and calculated, not unlike some kind of a serial killer who has some twisted sense of natural justice. The poor villagers, meanwhile, are helpless against the violence of the Camorra and are terrorised by them like it's an old-school Western by Sergios Leone and Corbucc
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