The Equalizer
Directed by Antoine Fuqua
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… From TMDB
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Viewers praise Denzel Washington's performance as a cold, calculating vigilante. [1][2][3] Some find the plot predictable but still entertaining. [4][5] A few critics call the film absurd or dogshit despite Washington's presence. [6][7]
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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 …
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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 …
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Expected pretty good, got very good. Can't call The Equaliser a perfect movie, but I love me a mixed bag of content like this. Final rating:★★★½ - I really liked it. Would strongly recommend you give it your time.
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“McCall” (Denzel Washington) has taken refuge from his chequered history by laying low working in a DIY store, minding his own business. That peaceful existence is compromised, though, when his colleague “Teri” (Chloë Grace Moretz) ends up in an altercation with a mysterious thug that puts her in hospital. Seeking to avenge this, his meticulous retribution soon attracts the attentions of the equally calculating …
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Watched the movie last night, kept me interested although somewhat predictable plot. Big bad guy, quiet good guy, helpless victims, bad guy gets his. Overall I did like the movie, but then again I like anything Denzel is in.
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Critics, per Wikipedia
The Equalizer grossed $102 million in North America and $91 million in other territories for a worldwide gross of $193 million. Its net production budget was estimated between $55 million and $73 million. The film was released on September 26, 2014, in the United States and earned $12.5 million from 3,236 theaters in its first opening night, including the $1.45 million it earned from 2,693 screens from Thursday night showings. On the second day, the film earned $13.5 million and $8.1 million on the third day. Its opening day is the third biggest for Washington, trailing behind American Gangster ($15.8 million) and Safe House ($13.6 million). On its opening weekend the film earned $34.1…
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Reactions
60 of 249 · most liked firstAmong the many people reacting with surprise to the literally batshit deep-left-field claim by Donald Trump that he invented the verb "equalize" is Denzel Washington and everyone who worked on the 2014 film The Equalizer No but seriously the word has been around since 1599
neutral · AI labelView post →watched THE EQUALIZER 3 last night which was one part THE TRIP TO ITALY and one part a slasher movie where Denzel is the killer and he's hunting mafiosos. 10/10, no notes.
positive · AI labelView post →The Equalizer (2014) Directed by Antoine Fuqua
neutral · AI labelView post →Denzel Washington, a legendary actor and writer. Known for films like The Equalizer, American gangster, and Training Day & Age 70.
neutral · AI labelView post →Good morning from northern Michigan. I hope you all are having a great day! This is what I'm listening to this morning. I hadn't heard it in a long time and then recently I heard it in the movie "The Equalizer." It stopped me in my tracks. What a voice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0F9...
neutral · AI labelView post →Was watching The Equalizer 2 and Pedro Pascal shows up and I was like "wow, baby Pedro Pascal", but the movie came out in 2018... I guess it's because they make him look tired as hell all the time in The Last of Us.
neutral · AI labelView post →Share an ACTION movie title that begins with the letter “E” 🎥 E is for… The Equalizer 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →What’s your favorite movie where multiple bad guys are equalized mine is The Equalizer
neutral · AI labelView post →ok I’m gonna watch this movie called Equalizer 2000 (1987), which, in addition to being the first entry in the Equalizer film series is about building an extremely cool gun in the post-apocalypse
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching The Equalizer 3 today. Within seven minutes of the movie opening, Denzel Washington jams a revolver through a guy's eye socket and shoots through his skull, using the carcass as a shield. Then he acts real sad about it, like he promised himself he wasn't going to do that.
positive · AI labelView post →Watching THE EQUALIZER because I needed a vigilante film for July 4, and it's hilarious that every character in this film is using Sony's ugly failed Xperia smart phone. Made more sense when I realized that the film was partially financed by Sony Motion Pictures.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie. The Equalizer
neutral · AI labelView post →The premise of The Equalizer 3 is that Denzel Washington has to do a bunch of slasher movie villain shit to Italian mafia guys because they’re selling (and this is a phrase the movie uses repeatedly) “Jihad Drugs” to terrorists in the Middle East
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy #LetterboxdFriday 📽️! It's no surprise that my least favourite of my #LastFourWatched is a Disney live-action movie. Luckily the rest I saw were good! What have you been watching? The Equalizer 3 (2023) Last Summer (2024) If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)
positive · AI labelView post →The Equalizer is my first EVER Denzel Washington movie & I LOVED IT youtu.be/shtUot_z0DA?...
positive · AI labelView post →When life immitates art, if a film franchise about one man who fights the powerful to obtain justice for the "little guy", it would be titled "The Equalizer" and Luigi would be portrayed by Denzel Washington.
neutral · AI labelView post →I just watched The Equalizer 3 for the first time and my GOD that shit should’ve been categorized as a horror movie. Denzel was on some real boogeyman shit in that. Who WASNT decapitated in that movie.
positive · AI labelView post →#MovieMadness 31. The last movie I watched. youtu.be/wfNU6JfDN_c?... The Equalizer
neutral · AI labelView post →Actor Edward Woodward was born June 1, 1930 in Croydon, Surrey (d. 2009). He starred in the 1973 cult British horror film The Wicker Man & in Breaker Morant (1980). From 1985 to 1989, Woodward starred as The Equalizer, earning him the 1986 Golden Globe Award.
neutral · AI labelView post →Posting a random movie from my library The Equalizer Robert McCall ain't taking any of your shit. 5⭐️ #filmsky #physicalmedia
positive · AI labelView post →Today's movie recommendation is a trilogy: "The Equalizer" trilogy... 1, 2 and 3. What is there to say? Denzel Washington delivers justice and karma to those who most badly need it. Stylish, action-packed, and just... well... Denzel Washington! #Movies
neutral · AI labelView post →Unofficial poll for tonight’s recording: Do you think The Equalizer (starring Denzel Washington) is a slasher? P.S. There are really cool articles on it at Dread Central and Slash Film. You should read them after you vote because that’s how science works. 🌚
neutral · AI labelView post →‘The Equalizer 2.’ A film. 🤌🏾 Matter of fact . . . make that, ‘The Equalizer: I I.’
neutral · AI labelView post →TNA is deader than dead on AMC. The debut did the same exact demo (.04) as the movie that aired before Impact, 2018's The Equalizer 2. They brought literally zero 18-49 viewers to AMC. About 30,000 people over 50 tuned in for TNA, and that's it. Brutally, unspeakably bad.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m watching The Equalizer 3, and I gotta admit, I am digging that it has this odd, gothic spaghetti slasher vibe. Antoine Fuqua knows how to shoot the shit out of a movie too. Can’t help but love it all ends up being about a a guy’s stolen pension.
positive · AI labelView post →One time Mike Breen mentioned how much he liked The Equalizer with Denzel during a game, said it was one of his favorite movies. This caused me to watch it and that movie is absolute dog shit. I've never looked at Mike Breen the same again.
negative · AI labelView post →I’m 3/4 of the way through a rewatch of THE EQUALIZER, and a movie moment of zen: I just love to watch Denzel Washington fuck people up. And act. And fuck people up.
positive · AI labelView post →This movie makes me remember that the theme to the 80s TV show The Equalizer was titled "Busy Equalizing" and that cracks me up to this day. #TheWickerMan #FrightClub
neutral · AI labelView post →I was just about to recommend The Equalizer because Denzel Washington doing old guy Home Alone in Home Depot is the best action movie premise ever.
positive · AI labelView post →Watching The Equalizer 3 and why do I get the impression the Italian tourist board paid for most of this movie 🤣
neutral · AI labelView post →I love Denzel but I'm against the Denzelwashing of movies. Just because he's in a movie can make it *cute* but not *good*. The Equalizer franchise is absolute absurd dogshit man sorry. Like I'm sorry to tell you this. They're really bad!
negative · AI labelView post →Tonight's film is... The Equalizer 3. E2 wasn't great. Hoping 3 brings the series back on track. #filmsky #denzel
neutral · AI labelView post →The Equalizer movie series is so well done…all of them held their own.
positive · AI labelView post →The best guy in any action movie is the guy who just watched The Equalizer or John Wick or the Transporter or Reacher utterly destroy three or four guys and runs in to try his hand at fighting, just in case he's the magical ninja who can pull this off.
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched 📽️🎥🎬 THE DEAD DON’T HURT - Viggo Mortensen’s makes a beautiful non linear western THE EQUALIZER 2 - dull follow up THE BIKERIDERS - I hated the trailer/I loved the film NOSFERATU - perfecting my Count Orlok impression to the consternation of everyone around me
negative · AI labelView post →Fourthing. To Live and Die In LA has been one of my all time favorite soundtracks since the film came out. It and Stewart Copeland's The Equalizer remain in rotation after all these years.
neutral · AI labelView post →Superman and Batman film writers should really take notes from the Equalizer trilogy
neutral · AI labelView post →This Monday at 9 PM Pacific, join #ImpromptuTheater for THE EQUALIZER! A former black ops agent tries to live a normal life, until a threat on a young woman puts him on a course to fight the Russian mob! You can find the movie on Amazon Prime!
neutral · AI labelView post →I can always use another go to comfort film that isn't Nobody or The Equalizer (Denzel Washington). Yes, probably odd choices for comfort but Galaxy Quest is on that list, too, so this one will fit in. #TheMonsterClub #FrightClub
positive · AI labelView post →Do I want to finally watch "The Equalizer" film series tonight, while high as a kite? Perhaps, perhaps.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Equalizer is such an S-tier comfort movie. I could listen to Denzel talk about that old man and the sea in that little cafe for hours and just die happy.
positive · AI labelView post →second #letterboxdfriday for july with a some variety for my #lastfourwatched, beat takeshi's still got it babyy Savage (2019) Broken Rage (2024) The Equalizer (2014) MadS (2024)
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching #TheEqualizer It has some issues, but it's Queen Latifah so I'll watch it. And Lorraine Toussaint! Good cast overall. And I'm thinking to maybe revisit the movie and the original series as well. It's nice to see a procedural again.
neutral · AI labelView post →So the latest film he just watched was The Equalizer
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching THE EQUALIZER movies and Denzel Washington brings an energy to it you would not expect in a run of the mill style movie He has to be up there has one of the greatest movie actors there has been
positive · AI labelView post →THE EQUALIZER 3 is surprisingly restrained for a movie where Denzel Washington harpoons a guy's head to the back of a van. My review of the third film in Antoine Fuqua's adaptation of the hit 1980s vigilante series is right here, at The Film Verdict! 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →The Equalizer isn't some pro justice movie series, where a man with a strong sense of justice dishes out Robin Hood justice for the oppressed. It's basically just American liberal pro CIA and pro US military propaganda. Not surprising, though. It was written and directed by a Black liberal.
negative · AI labelView post →I don’t know about movie history, but this scene in The Equalizer 🤌
positive · AI labelView post →Happy 70th birthday to the always explosive Denzel Washington. Watch him all weekend in films like THE EQUALIZER 1&2 on Pluto TV Icons: pluto.tv/us/live-tv/6...
neutral · AI labelView post →Trump said he came up with a new word, "equalize." There is literally a hit TV show starring Queen Latifah called "The Equalizer." Seriously dude? How about the film starring Denzel Washington? Really? You haven't heard that word before? Nothing?
neutral · AI labelView post →The Equalizer avoiding sex or even the suggestion of sex like a 1940s movie. Aunt Vi and her cop open parentheses ugh) talking about being lovers and we had never even seen them kiss.
negative · AI labelView post →The Houston Hottie & The Equalizer is the buddy film we need, amirite?? #megantheestallion #coachella
neutral · AI labelView post →Decided to start the Equalizer movie series because I wanted to watch Denzel dispatch some bad guys with found objects for 2 hours. It did not disappoint. Shot glass fu, corkscrew fu, hand drill fu, makeshift spear fu, four stars. Check it out.
positive · AI labelView post →My mind keeps replaying the scene in the Equalizer movie where Denzel takes out the crew of frat boys that have hurt a woman. We need a lot more Denzel's.
positive · AI labelView post →AEW Dynamite switching from TNT to TBS was a dark day. The Movie Guessing Game (common winners: Kong Skull Island, The Equalizer, Shooter, Legend of Tarzan, Back to the Future ONE TIME) was gone, replaced with having to deal with the end of a Big Bang Theory rerun
neutral · AI labelView post →This Monday at 9 PM Pacific, swing by #ImpromptuTheater for THE EQUALIZER 3! As our vigilante hero takes time to recover from a job in Italy, he finds a town being bullied by an Italian crime syndicate, and seeks justice one last time! You can find the movie on Hulu/Disney+!
neutral · AI labelView post →Top 3 things that enter a henchman's eyeball throughout the Equalizer film series, which I recently watched: 3) a thumb, 2) an entire gun barrel, 1) a shot glass.
positive · AI labelView post →This movie was basically an Easter Egg in The Equalizer 3. Denzel and Dakota Fanning back together again.
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying Malcolm X, fav Denzel Washington Film? The Equalizer (2014)
positive · AI labelView post →I'm watching "The Equalizer" on TNT and I want a neighbor like Robert McCall! 😁 This scene is badass!
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