Let's start out with the good. Denzel. C'mon, he's always good and in this he's still got it. Funny, hard-hitting, and a seemingly untouchable leading man.
The bad speaks for itself if you end up watching it. The pacing is slow in the first half, the action is barely there, and it seemed even more unnecessary than the second Equalizer film.
Let's just say you're writing a script and you introduce a large plot point that could severely cripple the lead character. Would you:
A. Bring it up later to challenge the protagonist in a confrontation.
B. Never address it again.
You can probably guess what the screenwriter ended up choosing.
McCall is good and in this he's too good. Not once was he challenged. He gives two beatdowns in the second half of the film without a scratch to himself. It's boring to watch and even harder to watch because the first half of the film was already a snooze.
It's sort of like a non-film that prides itself in taking a crap on good times. The worst part is I paid to see it. I paid to get crapped on and I don't even usually like that sort of thing. Leave it to the people on Craigslist, they're the real professionals. Antoine Fuqua and his team, who are usually pretty good, decided that hiring professional wet workers and whatever their crap equivalent is, was too much of a bother.
The bad speaks for itself if you end up watching it. The pacing is slow in the first half, the action is barely there, and it seemed even more unnecessary than the second Equalizer film.
Let's just say you're writing a script and you introduce a large plot point that could severely cripple the lead character. Would you:
A. Bring it up later to challenge the protagonist in a confrontation.
B. Never address it again.
You can probably guess what the screenwriter ended up choosing.
McCall is good and in this he's too good. Not once was he challenged. He gives two beatdowns in the second half of the film without a scratch to himself. It's boring to watch and even harder to watch because the first half of the film was already a snooze.
It's sort of like a non-film that prides itself in taking a crap on good times. The worst part is I paid to see it. I paid to get crapped on and I don't even usually like that sort of thing. Leave it to the people on Craigslist, they're the real professionals. Antoine Fuqua and his team, who are usually pretty good, decided that hiring professional wet workers and whatever their crap equivalent is, was too much of a bother.
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