There’s no shortage these days of older stars plying their special sets of skills in action thrillers. Throw a stone in a movie theater and you’re likely to hit Liam Neeson, Harrison Ford or Tom Cruise. “Equalizer 3,” an all-in-all good entry in the genre, is on the bloodier end of the spectrum.
A bullet in the back leaves McCall laid up in recovery after he’s taken in by a kindly village doctor named Enzo . We’re in Southern Italy; most of the film was shot along the Amalfi coast, specifically the enchanting medieval fishing village of Atrani. The well-traveled Fuqua, who helmed both prior “Equalizer” movies and first directed Washington in “Training Day,” is in his genre wheelhouse here. He trails McCall patiently and soaks up the local color, with a few touches of Christian imagery from the church above the town. There’s a sinister, ominous sense of evil scourges — a heinous drug from Syria, sold by the mafia is funding terrorists cells — seeping into a society of “good people.
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