![]() ![]() Technically, The Equalizer is your typical, generic summer popcorn film – an action flick with some intense fights, explosions and not too much story to it. Add a few sitar strokes to the dramatic background music and you have बदला लेनेवाला (:literal translation of ‘revenger’ to Hindi). Instead of a classic book, there would be a tv screen playing Bollywood music videos – Denzel Washington’s character could be working his way through the 100 Best Bollywood Classics instead of the 100 Books You Have to Read In Your Life. ![]() Many of the men would have to wear mustaches. This very key scene from The Equalizer could exist just as well in an Indian action movie if only one would make a few changes. Seconds later, the book has become a lethal weapon and the road worker and his accomplices have been finished off by the seemingly peaceful man. In this case, the violence attracts the attention of heavily tattooed psychotic Russian mob enforcer Teddy (Marton Csokas, looking like Kevin Spacey after he sold his soul to the devil), described as “a sociopath with a business card” and the kind of admiring enemy who looks at McCall’s work and says, “I have rarely seen skills like this.The Equalizer: Five Indian Masala Action Films You Should Watch After It Denzel Washington in and as The EqualizerĪ calm but strong-looking man sits in a quiet diner with a cup of tea and a classic book. The main question in a film like “The Equalizer” is whether a worthy adversary can be conjured up to take on the bloody mayhem the hero creates. When they don’t listen, McCall, no surprise, is not at a loss for other options.įor it is not giving away anything to say that underneath his bland exterior McCall unleashed is one of those only-in-the-movies ultimate killing machines, the world’s deadliest Boy Scout, able to create the kind of mayhem with a corkscrew that Robert Parker would never condone. It’s at the diner that McCall habitually runs into Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz, largely wasted), a twitchy, underage Russian hooker whose hard-knock life arouses enough sympathy in the man that he attempts to reason with the bad guys to set her free. For one thing, he is meticulous to the point of compulsiveness about the details of his life, like carefully wrapping an unused tea bag in a napkin before heading out to the Edward Hopperesque all-night diner he frequents when he can’t sleep, which is always. There are other signs that McCall is not completely ordinary. “He’s a knight in a world where knights don’t exist anymore,” McCall says of “Don Quixote,” and “you’ve got to be who you are in this world no matter what” is his reaction to “The Old Man and the Sea.” If you say so. McCall’s only leisure time activity seems to be reading classic novels and coming up with platitudes about them that are predictive of where the plot will soon be going. Invariably courteous and helpful, he never passes up a chance to encourage his co-workers, especially the overweight Ralphie (Johnny Skourtis), with a wide range of positive-thinking aphorisms. That time is spent carefully introducing Robert McCall (Washington), a seemingly ordinary Boston resident who works at a Home Depot clone called Home Mart.
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