Generic (as usual with Washington's 'Equalizer' character), Corny (as usual), simplistic, and unreal.
Similar to new James Bond films this character escapes death in the most unrealistic ways. His foe in this - the Italian mafia (and some of the Italian government) - fail to come close to killing him, but some random middle schooler is able to shoot him at the beginning (which is the most danger he ever faces). Irony I suppose ...
Also in the beginning he's surrounded by men with guns but miraculously isn't bound or handcuffed (and also is allowed to pour himself a glass of wine) even after killing multiple men from the mafia. With his hands free he's able grab one of the gunman's guns shoot the other gunman then get up use someone as a human shield and kill everyone else, ect.
This kind of or unrealistic scenario has been played out in hundreds of movies before but in this he tells them what he's going to do and gives them '9 seconds'.
This would be the first of about three times he evaded a sure death.
A scene just as unrealistic as this shows him attack a mafia boss in a restaurant with two of his monstrous goons only sitting a table away ARMED. Not only do they do nothing they literally just walk out of the restaurant.
Just like other Equalizer movies this had really good scene or environment shots. This takes place in Italy so there's really good scenes of Italians and their culture. This is essentially the only redeeming part of the movie with maybe the exception of more realistic aftermath in the violent scenes. There was a time when head/face shots were not directly seen when someone was shot in the head/face. The camera would pan away. Here however, they seemed to want to show this as maybe they thought it was special or needed it as a guise to be more realistic.
Similar to new James Bond films this character escapes death in the most unrealistic ways. His foe in this - the Italian mafia (and some of the Italian government) - fail to come close to killing him, but some random middle schooler is able to shoot him at the beginning (which is the most danger he ever faces). Irony I suppose ...
Also in the beginning he's surrounded by men with guns but miraculously isn't bound or handcuffed (and also is allowed to pour himself a glass of wine) even after killing multiple men from the mafia. With his hands free he's able grab one of the gunman's guns shoot the other gunman then get up use someone as a human shield and kill everyone else, ect.
This kind of or unrealistic scenario has been played out in hundreds of movies before but in this he tells them what he's going to do and gives them '9 seconds'.
This would be the first of about three times he evaded a sure death.
A scene just as unrealistic as this shows him attack a mafia boss in a restaurant with two of his monstrous goons only sitting a table away ARMED. Not only do they do nothing they literally just walk out of the restaurant.
Just like other Equalizer movies this had really good scene or environment shots. This takes place in Italy so there's really good scenes of Italians and their culture. This is essentially the only redeeming part of the movie with maybe the exception of more realistic aftermath in the violent scenes. There was a time when head/face shots were not directly seen when someone was shot in the head/face. The camera would pan away. Here however, they seemed to want to show this as maybe they thought it was special or needed it as a guise to be more realistic.
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