[Review] Equalizer 2 (4/10)

Title - The Equalizer 2
Studio - Sony Pictures
Starring - Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Bill Pullman, Melissa Leo, Ashton Sanders
Writer - Richard Wenk
Director - Antoine Fuqua
Release - 20 July 2018

Equalizer 2 felt like a very tired Antoine Fuqua at the wheel after he dropped out (one way or another) from the Scarface remake with Diego Luna (which at this point has also been very quiet).

The whole movie had the wrong pace. It took so long for Fuqua to move things along. He spent way too much time on certain shots that I felt could have been cut much shorter, because the entire movie felt like three hours long. And this was supposed to be more of an action movie than anything else. And I know Fuqua can deliver something that is a little bit more high-octane.

There were two subplot which I really did not care for, one was the one with the old man and the other with the kid. Both of which served no real purpose for the story as a whole and should have been forgone for a meatier main storyline involving Leo and Pullman's characters, or with Pascal's and his team.

Washington always deliver and that was no different here. I wished there was more for me to grasp onto here than that very convenient plot point of an evacuated small town for the final battle. It just did not feel right when Pascal's character remained on the tower while chaos was happening below.

And there was no real danger felt for Washington's McCall throughout the whole movie. There was something fundamentally wrong with the whole thing.