The Equalizer 2: An action drama for justice

The same actor, the same director, the same idea ... and a completely different result. This time, Antoine Fuqua and Denzel Washington decided to focus on the ordinary, daily life of Robert McCall, rather than his secret work as a people's avenger, and instead of a peppy action movie about a lone hero, we got an overly drawn-out drama of a man who lost everything for the second time.

Denzel Washington's hero has modernized and entered the international level. He easily goes to Turkey to punish the scoundrels, but does not forget to earn money as a taxi driver of a service like Uber and take an active part in the upbringing of a neighbor's boy who is on a slippery path. And, of course, Robert McCall continues to read books from the list left to him by his late wife.

The retired operative has almost no friends, and when the criminals kill the last of them, Robert McCall begins his personal vendetta. Unfortunately, the object on which his anger will eventually fall is calculated literally in the first third of the film, there is no intrigue or surprise here. However, this applies to the whole of The Equalizer 2. We know perfectly well how events will develop at one point or another in the film, where the investigation will turn, and even how exactly McCall's enemies will die (the higher you climb, the longer it takes to fall - what a well-worn and stupid reception).

According to the director and the leading actor, they set themselves the task of showing the inner world of Robert McCall, the fact that behind the mask of a ruthless avenger hides an exceptionally kind and sympathetic person. But, sorry, we kind of knew that anyway, because in the first movie he punished the bad guys and saved the good guys. No, the authors smear the story of an old man from a nursing home for an hour and a half, pull the boy-artist by the ears to the finale, show McCall's various passengers as a taxi driver for almost ten minutes. Ok, thanks, but when will there be fights?

Unfortunately, in the film, which is positioned as an action movie, there are very few fights. Yes, the businessmen and trainee scene is good, but it's almost entirely in the movie trailer. Yes, the Turkish train also worked out well, but this episode was also in the promo video. This, unfortunately, is almost everything. Fight in the style of the first film, short, brutal, intense, in The Equalizer 2 there is almost no. We, of course, understand that Denzel Washington is no longer a boy, but was it worth it in that case to fence a garden.

There was some hope for the final battle, in which Robert McCall is confronted by experts of his equal strength, but instead we got some kind of epic circus with a hurricane and a fight on the tower. Even if we close our eyes to the fact that in such a strong wind to shoot from a sniper rifle at a distance of more than a couple of tens of meters is simply stupid, the whole battle stretched out for twenty minutes looks extremely ridiculous and alien. It does not hold a candle to the final battle in the warehouse from the first part, in which the hero of Denzel Washington very ingeniously used various household goods to eliminate opponents.

Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua's new work is one of the biggest disappointments this year. The Equalizer 2 is a too boring, too drawn-out action movie with an unfortunate number of action scenes. My advice to you is to limit yourself to watching the trailer.

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