The equalizer

It’s an action movie directed by Antoine Fuqua and it’s based on a TV show under the same title. Starring in the movie we can see Denzel Washington and Chloe Moretz.

The main character’s name is Robert MacCall and is a retired Black Ops agent who is now working in a Home Mart. Here he is friend of all his co-workers. There is one in specific who wants to join a company to be a security guard and he helps him to exercise, follow a diet until the exam day comes.

Every night he goes to a restaurant to eat something and read a different book every day.  His wife recently passed away and she was doing a challenge of reading the 100 most read books, and he decided to try to do so too. In this restaurant he met a prostitute called Teri, who wants to be a musician but she’s trapped in that world.

One day she didn’t go to the restaurant and somebody tells him she got beaten for rejecting a client and was left in the street near the hospital. A friend of her told him who did it and he went looking for those guys who handled a Russian pub near downtown and killed them very skillfully.

He thought it was all done, but the leader of that gang sent a corrupted agent to investigate the death of his men and a war between the Russians and McCall begins. Their worst mistake was coming to his place of work where he had his friends and all the necessary equipment to eliminate one by one. So he does when he finally faces the Russian agent.

In my opinion, this is one of the greatest movies he has made until this day. The action and seek of revenge is simply amazing so there is no boring moment in the movie. And even though you may know what is going to happen you never expect how he will do it. Recommended only for people over 16 for the graphic content and extreme violence.

 By Juan Paniagua