Saturday, May 2, 2015

[MOVIE REVIEW] The Equalizer - Modern Version of Robin Hood in Other Form Too

The Equalizer (2014) - 7/10

You could be whatever you want, change your world

Well you can searched about this movie, the plot, the cast, the director, the budget, everything, on the internet so yeah let's get down into business!

What I see or feel weird about:
00:08:10 Chloe put down her left headset.
00:08:21 Well, the scene of Chloe moved to another angle and it shows that she was still using her left headset but her right headset that she supposed still using it wasn’t actually where it had to be.
00:10:51 + 00:10:58 Chloe’s bag or purse were put horizontally.
00:11:00 Her bag/purse’s position changed, it became vertically.
00:11:09 Her bag/purse’s position came back to horizontal.
00:19:32 Of course we knew the car was coming, it was so fast and obvious (not fast and furious tho LOL) maybe you guys should make it less obvious.
00:38:35 These are about the file consist of photos of the mafia that were killed by Denzel. On the first photo at the bottom, the whole eye were taken out but on the right photo, it was only a mark of the one-shot glass around the eye. I also think that you couldn’t pull of someone’s eye just by upon stabbing in a one-shot glass.
00:48:38 This scene is confusing. What is it for, I didn’t see any purpose about this scene.
00:57:10 Chloe (Jenny) looked fine, didn’t look like she was being robbed.
00:57:15 Thought he was gonna do something tho but in the end he let the robber go.
01:11:13 The different toilet trick was predictable and commonly used but in this film the director still pulled it off nicely, I could fell the intensity was rising up high.
01:32:00 This scene is so unpredictable! When Rob came to Nikolai and when he gave Nikolai the glasses with a stain of blood that belongs to the person who supposed to looking for Rob. If I might say this, that was smooth af LOL!
01:32:43 That fuckin’ laugh tho.
01:54:39 Excuse me, who’s the real boss? Nikolai or that man. How dare you order around your boss like that in the mafia world. Wow.
01:58:25 The scene of Denzel that looked like this movie’s poster was too long man! And too much of course.

Thoughts:
The opening was OK, a little bit interesting to see Denzel Washington’s character, named Robert McCall, is such a very warm guy and friendly at his work but very lonely when he’s home. This is classic but the director successfully made the contrast between those two conditions when Rob’s at home and when he’s at work. After that, when Chloe G. Moretz finally came out, I was in complete shock, she looks very different and looked deeply in her character but with a touch of Chloe’s. I don’t know, like every character that Chloe has played, she looks into the character deeply but with Chloe’s touch, like you could see a bit of her in the character.
I love, love, love the details and angle from this movie, it gave me a strong message what the director wanted to show. Example, those details at the first couple minutes, about Rob’s daily activity, details when the water out from the tap. The details when Teri (Chloe) got beaten up, the make-up made it looks so freaking real, thanks to the make-up artist I guess LOL. Also, the details when Rob went to Slavi’s office and killed all of them, and when Rob was fighting, they had those details about the estimated time, what to do, and what’s the results, kinda like Sherlock but with the estimated time. I think that was so cool.
There was the time before Nikolai sat with Rob, at the restaurant, Nikolai rejected his boss’s phone call. It surprised me because how could you reject your boss’s phone call especially in the mafia world, Russian mafia world to be exact. The other time when Nikolai’s henchman ordered him at the houseware store, I said it before on the timecode’s part, how could you ordered around your boss? This is totally new to me, and not a common thing to see in a mafia’s movie or other lookalike movie’s genre.
There was the time when Slavi was on the phone with Rob, and Slavi transferred the call from his henchman, who kidnapped Rob’s friend at the houseware store, to Rob, so he would come save his friends. That was some pretty cool stuff too. Those scenes when they were fighting at the houseware store, Rob’s workplace, that reminds me of Home Alone, this might be “Houseware Alone”.
I wasn’t happy and satisfy with the ending. Seems they rushed it, because the durations has been too long, so they made Rob killed the Nikolai’s boss easily in a very clean and smart way. But that was a cool ending because after he killed the boss, he went out from the bathroom,  he walked out and actually Rob have already killed the boss’s henchman. Addition, the song in the end is nice.
I feel like the end wasn’t really finished yet. After Rob killed the boss, someday he met Teri again, she became someone new, a better person. And….. yeah that’s it. The end. Anyway, how could Rob didn’t even get touch by the police after all he had done. Well I guess the duration has been too long for an action movie so that’s not necessary.
The story is mainstream, a lot of movies have stories like that too. But the differences are actors and angle and stuff like that. I love Denzel in this movie, he really truly deeply suits the character of a warm, loyal man, but a cold-blooded killer. He nailed it! So did Chloe (no explain needed tho).
This film’s angle, from where the director chose to shot the scenes, all of that was amazing, he succeed at giving the message. While you were watching, you can feel how intense it is, even tho the trick was commonly used at these kinds of movies. I just love how the director served his movie to us.
This is one of the must see film. It is very unpredictable too, the plot was amazing. It is very intense, but gotta admit the ending wasn’t quite satisfying for me. But overall, the ending wasn’t that bad, it really gives a message of who Rob really is, a man with a very kind heart who wants justice to a teenage girl who wasn’t supposed to be who she is at her age.


P.S this is my first movie review, I do really work hard on it, I do best as I can. Comment in the box down below what do you think and have you guys watched the movie? 

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