The equalizer 2 series#
Even Tom Cruise and Dwayne Johnson have shown chinks in their armours recently - for Cruise, anything outside the Mission: Impossible series is a gamble, and The Rock’s ever-escalating streak leapt off a Skyscraper recently.
The equalizer 2 movie#
It’s true that he is one of the last few remaining movie stars in the world - someone who could open a film just on the power of their stardom. The action in The Equalizer 2 is more violent than the first film.īut if you’re going to have a thin character as your protagonist, who better than Denzel Washington to help add some sorely-needed personality? With just a wry, toothy smile, a gaunt stare and that trademark matter-of-fact delivery, Denzel makes Robert McCall someone worth rooting for - if not passionately then at least with moderate interest. It’s very objective-based, the action is very glossy and the characters are more like archetypes than anything else. But as fans of video games would know, when the side quests distract from the main story, it becomes slightly tedious to keep up.Īnd the Equalizer 2, like the first film (which I honestly do not remember much about), is quite like a video game in its structure. The problem isn’t that the Equalizer 2 juggles too many elements at the same time it’s a fairly common approach that several films take - and I’m sure Quentin Tarantino and Alejandro Gozalez Inarritu would have a thing or two to say about interconnected plots. In between investigating the murder of a close friend, Denzel Washington’s vigilante - Robert McCall - spends time with a holocaust survivor, comments on the backyard garden of a neighbour, and takes a troubled black youth under his wing.Īnd so the question arises: Do fans of this franchise - a series of films in which Denzel essentially breaks bones while at the same time taking part in some twisted competition with himself - want scene after scene of timid drama? This is the Equalizer 2 that we’re talking about, and not the extended cut of the Lord of the Rings. It certainly has enough subplots to fill 10 episodes. It gives the impression that director Antoine Fuqua was left unchecked during production, returned with a 10-hour assembly cut, and then spent the next several months killing his darlings.
The equalizer 2 tv#
This is sort of what has happened to The Equalizer 2, which feels like an entire season of TV condensed into a 2-hour movie. To meet a feature run-time, they decided to remove the show’s signature jibber-jabber, which made the films a more streamlined experience, but was alienating to fans of the show. Of all the recent film adaptations of popular television shows - the Jump Street movies, Baywatch, even Mission: Impossible - none feels more rooted to its origins as The Equalizer 2.įor example, a few years ago, each season of director Michael Winterbottom’s British comedy series, The Trip, was edited into a 90-minute film for American audiences.
Cast - Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Melissa Leo, Ashton Sanders