The Big Picture There are Oscar winners and there are action stars. This is the Hollywood binary that prevents an Academy Award for stunts and determines that no amount of fight choreography ever adds up to a performance. Instead, the equivalent awards body for the action world is, say, the Expendables series, and only so many make the cut.
If the Equalizer movies have any sort of gimmick, it’s that Washington’s character Robert McCall has the video game-like ability to super-focus, in which time slows down for close-ups on weapons and opponents’ tattoos. We go inside Robert’s head, and this first happens at around the 30-minute mark of the first film, to stage the first action scene.
All the more for McCall to grit his teeth and put his shoulder into it, because he isn’t just going after the bad guy, he’s shutting down operations and reaching out to Agency contacts. The first two Equalizer movies run over two hours, which is pretty long for meat-and-potato action flicks. There’s a lot of table setting, where the first movie garnishes McCall’s episodic TV moments of helping his community while the villain tracks him down, hoping to learn more.
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