THE EQUALIZER

We both rated this movie an 8. It was a well-acted action flick but knowing Denzel Washington was the lead already tells you its going to be well-acted.

A simple plot with several "holes" and inconsistencies through-out but then again, for me, Denzel cancels out all those minor cinematic details.

He is a retired CIA operative, living austerely in his OCD fashion, and working at a Home Depot and going for tea every night to the same diner. Its funny to see all his compulsive rigid actions from lining up silverware to when he drops his tea bag in the cup. At the diner he gets casually acquainted with a prostitute who gets beaten up by her Russian pimp. Well, that's all Denzel needs to know. He wreaks revenge.

But in a deliberate, almost choreographed, highly efficient, unusual methods way: complete with gore and lots of blood and inside body parts.

I'm glad we saw this movie because it was very entertaining. We debated in a similar OCD way about seeing Gone Girl instead but having been celluloid-ish smited the last 2 times we went to the show, we didn't want to have that experience repeated. I have read reviews of Gone Girl which were sterlingly wonderful and other reviews saying what a disappointment it was and predictable.

And because we love Denzel and hadn't ever seen him in a movie we didn't enjoy, we picked The Equalizer. and didn't regret it.