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The Equalizer 3 (2023)

Rate: 3
Viewed: 1/26

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1/26: What the hell is this...a screensaver?

I've seen hundreds of films that take place in a foreign country, and they don't ever spend a long time showing the landscape. That's just pretentious. In The Equalizer 3, it's been back and forth between "here's the beautiful coastline of Italy" and Denzel Washington taking men out in different gruesome ways. While at that, I could tell Antoine Fuqua watched The Godfather Part II too much.

Remember Charles Bronson in Death Wish V: The Face of Death? At the age of 72, he looked really, really old and long past his prime. That's where Denzel Washington is at this point, being four years younger. In other words, it's time for him to retire this silly character and stop making a fool out of himself. Obviously, Denzel Washington will keep making more sequels because he loves the money.

It's impossible to root for Robert McCall who happens to be an insatiable serial killer and speaks gibberish whenever he needs to justify his actions. All he needs is a small reason. His warm-up begins by collecting evidence of how civilians are being disturbed by the bad element. After unleashing his worst, he enjoys seeing life going slowly out of people's eyes. And the process starts all over again in a different location for the next sequel.

Does McCall realize the bad guys are replaceable and it's only a tiny fraction? By the way, what happened to his OCD behavior, the eye thing, the watch, the book-of-the-month stuff, and the people he made friends with in the first and second parts? Oh...I get it: he doesn't have the time for all of that bullshit.

Dakota Fanning...my goodness. I groaned every time she appeared on screen. Why does Hollywood allow this league of no-talented nepo babies that include Drew Barrymore, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kate Hudson to circumvent the necessity of hard work, especially in theater and TV, in order to break into the world of cinema?

All in all, there were several times that a golden opportunity to kill Richard McCall appeared for the taking in The Equalizer 3, and I would've been fine if it happened.