The Equalizer

The Equalizer is gripping, mysterious and even sometimes moving, but it’s never pleasant, still less fun. If you decide to go, don’t claim you weren’t warned. If you skip it, you’re missing one of the year’s signal works of superior Hollywood craftsmanship.

The Equalizer, which reteams Washington with his Training Day director, Fuqua, is an origin story, like the birth of Batman, or Daredevil. If audiences and star are so inclined, it's easy to see this premise and this character - a tough, taciturn gent burdened with regret and a very special skill set - going into Roman numerals.

Truly, you don't have to watch former secret agents relentlessly wipe out villains. But if you want to, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone better than Washington for the task.

There's a soothing catharsis in the idea that good guys are every bit as capable as bad guys of raining hellfire down on their enemies.

Mr. Fuqua, who did such a fine job directing Mr. Washington and Ethan Hawke in "Training Day," loses control of an increasingly slapdash script, and the whole movie turns into a slaughterhouse. The question isn't who wants it — box office action is assured — but who needs it?

It's a dull film.

The Equalizer is a stone-dumb movie.

This is one of the best top 5 movie of the year. Denzel Washington is the bomb. Must see movie. White knuckle ride that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Very graphic kill scenes, and tense as hell. He does what each one of us would like to do to the **** holes in this world. Story was solid and perfectly scripted. Action was killer. Well acted by all. Inspirational. Denzel Washington happens to be one of my most favorite actors and is never a let down in any of his movies. Im not going to get into the story line, you can read it your self. WELL DONE! God blessed you Denzel Washington and you use your gift flawlessly. It is now 2:00 am and im going to watch Unstoppable, which is another Denzel Washington movie that is a must see. I have watched Unstoppable at least 40 times and the movie never gets old.

The Equalizer has a pretty solid script, but it has terrible editing and pacing. The main character is the definition of a person with perfect moral. He is ruthless, but he kills to save people. The themes of caring, kindness, giving people a chance are not complicated, but important. The story is predictable, but engaging. On the other hand, the movie is not. The editing is terrible. The fight scenes are just bad, because I couldn't see anything. The pacing is also horrible. The beginning was good, it had a lot of similarities to John Wick and I though that would be the slow part, but the fight sequence in the end was a lot more boring, I fell asleep several times. The cinematography was sometimes gorgeous, but in a few scenes, it was just pretty bad. Denzel Washington is a terrific actor and he created an interesting character, his performance was great. The Equalizer is pretty boring, I think it could've been a lot better with a shorter runtime and well-edited fight scenes.

The Equalizer brings out different methods of action as it offers more of that timed dark rainy vigilante, stealthy and untouchable action.

Have no idea why this got so many sequels. Not only is it rather boring and the stakes extremely low, but none of the it is particularly interesting. His reasoning for doing all of this as well is just terrible and it doesn't help that his background is super simple. Completely missed the mark

Extremely middle of the road movie and definitely not one of Denzel's finest moments. There's too much same old same old for me here and even that is not done very well. This movie is compared to Man on Fire alot, one of Denzel's finest moments I think, and it doesn't hold a candle to that movie. Bout the only thing this movie has going for it is that it's easy to sit down and enjoy. How much you enjoy it really depends on your love of action and/or Denzel movies honestly but it's very easy to follow and it clearly does not want you thinking about the various plot holes too much. There are plenty of other Denzel movies to watch instead of this one. Stay far away from this clunker.