Antoine Fuqua’s “Equalizer 3,” a taut and textured sequel to Denzel Washington’s vigilante series, isn’t one of the actor’s best films. It wouldn’t crack h…
By Jake Coyle | Associated Press
Antoine Fuqua’s “Equalizer 3,” a taut and textured sequel to Washington’s vigilante series, isn’t one of the actor’s best films. It wouldn’t crack his top 10. But it vividly encapsulates Washington’s formidable on-screen potency. In that way, the “Equalizer” movies , remind me of those great Walter Matthau thrillers like “Charley Varrick” and “Hopscotch” — movies about old men with expressive eyebrows who are set in their ways but have plenty of tricks left up their sleeve.
Yet curiously neither the fight sequences nor the film’s sense of suspense are much of a selling point. The film, scripted by Richard Wenk, opens with a trail of bodies through the main house of an Sicily vineyard. In the wine cellar calmly sits Robert McCall , who shrugs, “Wouldn’t let me in, so…”
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