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Name: The Equalizer
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Genre: action, crime, thriller
Released: 2014
Duration: 2 h 12 min
Rating: 7.3

The Equalizer has an iRankMovies score of 66.6/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

The Equalizer (2014)

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Release:2014

Runtime:2h 12m

Country:United States

Director:Antoine Fuqua

Language:English

Genre

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Keywords

Assassin corruption HitmanCall GirlSadismHostageGangster Fbi

iRank67

The Equalizer rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.3/10· 465K votes

Rotten Tomatoes61%

Metacritic57%

TMDb7.286/10· 10K votes

With 61% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.3/10 on IMDb and 57/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About The Equalizer

McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.

Cast of The Equalizer

Denzel Washington
as Robert McCall
Marton Csokas
as Teddy
Chloë Grace Moretz
as Teri
David Harbour
as Masters
Haley Bennett
as Mandy
Bill Pullman
as Brian Plummer
Melissa Leo
as Susan Plummer
David Meunier
as Slavi
Johnny Skourtis
as Ralphie
Alex Veadov
as Tevi
Vladimir Kulich
as Vladimir Pushkin
E. Roger Mitchell
as Lead Investigator

The Equalizer facts

Budget: $55M
Box office: $192.3M
Collection: The Equalizer Collection

Our take on The Equalizer

Antoine Fuqua's 2014 action-crime thriller builds a lone-avenger story around a man trying to leave violence behind. McCall believes he has buried his mysterious past in a quiet new life, until he meets Teri, a young woman held under the thumb of ultra-violent Russian gangsters. Unable to look away, he unearths dormant skills and turns them on anyone who preys on the defenseless, casting himself as protector for those with nowhere else to turn. Fuqua stages the payback with methodical, hard-edged control. It suits viewers who like disciplined, morally clear vigilante action and a stoic, capable hero. Come for the reckoning, stay for the measured, purposeful tension.

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