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An average movie

Posted : 7 years, 5 months ago on 23 October 2016 05:36

Since I always had a a weak spot for Denzel Washington and since this movie was fairly successful at the box-office, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, to be honest, I was amazed by how underwhelming the damned thing actually turned out to be. I mean, sure, ย it was well made and Denzel Washington was, as usual, quite charismatic but I just really struggled to get into this story and I thought it was just pretty slow and most of it time actually bored me. Eventually, the only thing that intrigued me was Chloe Grace Moretz. In fact, her character was supposed to be older but Moretz was apparently so convincing, they changed the character especially for her. Indeed, to make this prostitute so young made this character even more heartbreaking and Moretz really nailed this performance. Unfortunately, even though she seemed to have a major part in this story, they still managed to get rid off her after 15 minutes which was too bad. Eventually, the rest of the movie was about some older slightly autistic version of Jason Bourne, some kind of omnipotent spy who can do whatever he wants and who cannot be defeated. Well, I have seen this kind of stories too many times to really care anymore. To conclude, I think my raring was actually rather generous on this one but I guess it might be worth a look, if you really love the genre.


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The Denzelizer

Posted : 8 years, 11 months ago on 16 April 2015 07:53





Denzel is the best at looking bad-ass but also entertained by people trying to defeat him, as he knows he is the most bad-ass... but he doesn't look so entertained that you see a smile, there is a very slight up-curve from his lips and the rest is in his eyes (see the above picture for classic example).


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The Equalizer review

Posted : 9 years, 3 months ago on 13 December 2014 07:07

I love Denzel Washington movies so I was definitely going to see this at some point. Also the fact that he is working together with the same director of Training Day is awesome. Although I didn't know Antoine Fuqua made that horrible King Arthur movie from 2004. He still makes up for it with other really good films. This categorizes as one of those really good films. Denzel really holds it all together with excellent acting as well as Chloe Moretz. The action scenes are badass and he still proves he is not a guy you want to mess with. Robert McCall reminds me of a modern day Sherlock Holmes with a dash of Monk. I think though that this would have been an average run of the mill thriller if it was made with anyone else. I loved the music in the Home Mart store scene near the end. I would love to see a sequel which the ending hints to the possibility. It was a fun and entertaining watch as you would usually get with a Denzel movie.


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