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Post by mikef6 on Mar 3, 2019 17:16:52 GMT
The Equalizer 2 / Antoine Fuqua (2018). Retired super-secret agent Robert McCall (Denzel Washington), who uses his fighting and killing skills to protect innocent people (often with them not knowing about his help), returns in Denzel’s first sequel of his movie career. Those sequences of him doing good and helping people, which open and close the movie, are quiet good and involving. Most of the movie’s time, however, is taken up by a standard revenge plot which begins with the death of one of McCall’s former colleagues in the spy business. This story and how it develops turns quite tedious. A major draw of the film is the performance, almost a cameo, by 90-year-old Orson Bean who plays a Holocaust survivor trying to work the legal system to recover a painting he did of his sister which was lost when taken by the Nazis and is now in private hands. Bean made the entire movie for me.
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