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Watch: The Equalizer 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – Robert McCall is a former special service commando who faked his own death in hopes of living out a quiet life. Instead, he comes out of his self-imposed retirement to save a young girl, and finds his desire for justice reawakened after coming face-to-face with members of a brutal Russian gang. McCall becomes the go-to man when the helpless require the kind of vengeance they would never find without his skills..
Plot: McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.
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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 372,687
	60% | RottenTomatoes
	57/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 7524 Popularity: 58.573 | TMDB

Reviews:

Denzel Washington saves the day.

There’s nothing I’d consider special about ‘The Equalizer’, though thanks to a typically stellar performance from lead Washington I still had a fun time watching this 2014 release. It’s a great showing from Denzel, not that that is a surprise given he is – alongside Leonardo DiCaprio – my favourite actor.

Otherwise, it’s a pretty standard vigilante action flick which probably goes on for slightly too long and features some forgettable, if solid, support cast/characters, the latter is especially true for the rather plain villains. The music is also standard, though does improve towards the end with the final score and end credit soundtrack.

All in all, a worthwhile watch thanks to Denzel. I’m hoping the sequel, whilst still featuring a top lead performance, is more of a well rounded effort – I guess I’ll soon see!

For me this was a very entertaining vigilante flick. Denzel Washington is excellent in his role as a cold and calculating yet compassionate vigilante. The movie is slower than a lot of movies in this genre but that does not make it boring and when the action starts it is measured (for a movie in this genre) and well done.

Although there is a red thread, started by McCall’s first act of vigilantism, running through the movie he also performs a few on the side jobs as well during the movie. I like the vigilante stuff so for me this was some nice fillers to round off the movie.

The main thread pitches McCall against a real psychopathic Russian enforcer. No one can say that this movie did not have a well done bad guy. The role is quite well played. The guy is creepy to say the least. Not to mention violent of course but then so is McCall when the time is right.

One thing I liked with this movie is that McCall it is not one of the usual run around, look dangerous and clobber the bad guys in periodic outbursts of violence stereotypes. McCall is always calm, calculating, behaving intelligently and the baddies almost never realizes the mistake they just did until it is quite a bit too late.

Sure, the capacity of McCall to clobber the bad guys, usually without getting hurt himself, is bordering on superhuman but what the heck, it is fiction after all. Totally realistic movies are rarely fun, at least not movies of this genre. Also, the end fight where the baddies are more or less running around aimlessly and get taken out could have been better. Especially since the Russian mobster had shown quite a bit of intelligence up until that point. Having said that, I did like that it did not degenerate into the usual 20 minute shoot anything that moves nonsense. McCall is continuing his cold and calculating rampage through the unfortunate individuals on the wrong side and the various ways of disposing of them are rather creative.

On the whole I found this to be a rather entertaining movie. In one sense it is the usual vigilante stuff, which I happen to like, but in one sense it is not your normal run of the mill vigilante movie thanks to Denzel Washington’s cold, calculating and intelligent portrayal of McCall.

Denzel Washington made this film better than it was
So I just finished watching Equalizer (EQ1) again, so I can watch Equalizer 2 (EQ2) for the comparison.

It’s too bad both films had the same director and writers, as they have a bad habit of dragging out the writing and the scenes. Both films at just over 2 hours is just way too long, especially in the simplistic singular plot or EQ1. However, that plot still worked, and mainly because of the entire casts especially Denzel Washington’s performance(s). EQ2 certainly had better pacing and a more suspenseful plot – albeit predictable, however it had many plot issues and holes as well as some scenes that needed to be edited down. The new supporting cast was not as strong either.

Which did I enjoy better? Probably EQ1 by a small margin, but they both got an 8/10 from me, as they each had their merits and issues. Nevertheless still enjoyable. I hope if they come out with a EQ3, they speed up the pacing within the writing and directing.

SOMETIMES WE MAKE THE WRONG CHOICES TO GET TO THE RIGHT PLACES
Bob (Denzel Washington) works at the Boston Home Mart (Home Depot). He lives a very simple, neat and orderly life. He also acts as a Life Coach to those around him particularly an overweight co-worker Ralphie (Johnny Skourtis) who wants to be a security guard and Teri, a Russian immigrant prostitute (Chloë Grace Moretz) who he bumps into at a restaurant.

Bob gives out advice like “You got to be who you are” and “Doubt Kills.” His advice to the prostitute that she could be anything she wanted, didn’t work out when she thought she could be a boxer with her Russian pimp. Sometimes people need more than a life coach, they need a vigilante who happens to be one of the Pips.

Armed with a trained eye, honey, clover, and a cork screw, Bob takes on the entire Russian mafia which contains nothing but heavily armed stereotypical sociopaths with satanic tattoos.

There must be nearly a 100 new vigilante films out there right now. I know, I reviewed most of them. If I was going to watch one, this one would be it.

Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 12 min (132 min)
Budget 55000000
Revenue 192330738
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Crime, Thriller
Director Antoine Fuqua
Writer Richard Wenk, Michael Sloan, Richard Lindheim
Actors Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz
Country United States
Awards 1 win & 9 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix SDDS, Datasat, Dolby Digital, Dolby Surround 7.1, Dolby Atmos, 12-Track Digital Sound (IMAX 12 track), IMAX 6-Track, Sonics-DDP (IMAX version)
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa Plus 4:3, Panavision C-, E-, G-Series and Angenieux Optimo 2S Lenses
Laboratory ColorWorks, Culver City (CA), USA (digital intermediate), DeLuxe (acknowledgement) (2012-2016 logo)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Codex ARRIRAW (2.8K)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Panavision (anamorphic) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm, D-Cinema