![]() What isn’t formulaic is the persistent David Fincher mood of nightmare – the sense that we’re in an imaginary universe related to our own, but not quite the same – and the iconic stillness and loneliness of Denzel Washington. DENZEL WASHINGTON THE EQUALIZER SERIESIf you skip it, you’re missing one of the year’s signal works of superior Hollywood craftsmanship.įuqua builds considerable suspense from the near-silent opening scenes onward, and then delivers a series of grotesque and imaginative killings, all in entirely formulaic fashion. If you decide to go, don’t claim you weren’t warned. “The Equalizer” is gripping, mysterious and even sometimes moving, but it’s never pleasant, still less fun. DENZEL WASHINGTON THE EQUALIZER MOVIEIt’s not quite that I think this movie is a guilty pleasure, since “pleasure” is hardly the applicable term. If that sounds like I’m recommending “The Equalizer” and then trying to take it back, that’s exactly right. This is an entirely different kind of movie than “Training Day,” and far less ambitious in narrative terms, but it’s a triumph in its own brooding, ultraviolent and faux-meaningful fashion. Now the Washington-Fuqua duo is back together for “The Equalizer,” a synthetic blend of sentimental fantasy and Nietzschean supercop-revenge saga based on the all-but-forgotten 1980s TV series with British star Edward Woodward. ![]() (I had totally forgotten that Fuqua directed a King Arthur film starring Clive Owen, and there’s a reason for that.) Fuqua is a master manipulator of style and atmosphere who has often chosen (or gotten stuck with) mediocre material or worse: I have a soft spot for his back-to-basics cop opera “Brooklyn’s Finest,” but his best movie since “Training Day” is probably “Shooter,” with Mark Wahlberg. Washington remains an A-list star, but has made a series of largely forgettable action vehicles and inspirational sagas his best two roles of the last decade have come in Spike Lee’s “Inside Man” and Robert Zemeckis’ “Flight,” but only the first of those stands up to more than one viewing. It took more than a dozen years for Denzel Washington to reunite with Antoine Fuqua, the director who pushed him into startling new territory as the dirty-cop antihero of “Training Day.” Neither man, one could argue, has been quite the same since. ![]()
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