The Equalizer 3 4K 2023 2160p WEB-DL

Robert McCall (Denzel Washington), after a massacre in Sicily, finds himself in a cozy little village in Southern Italy, where he makes new friends, including a caring doctor (Remo Giron). It isn't long before the former agent realizes that the friends are under the direct control of local crime bosses. When the mob begins terrorizing the residents, McCall stands up for the innocent.

The Equalizer 3 4K Review
Robert McCall (Denzel Washington), after a massacre in Sicily, finds himself in a cozy little village in Southern Italy, where he makes new friends, including a caring doctor (Remo Giron). It isn't long before the former agent realizes that the friends are under the direct control of local crime bosses. When the mob begins terrorizing the residents, McCall stands up for the innocent.

In the second "The Equalizer," McCall overcame his "hundred books" challenge by symbolically closing the case on Marcel Proust. Going for a third round with the same director Antoine Fuqua, the hero of Denzel Washington lost the intellectual zest - this time, it seems, he does not care at all about literature, even if the Sicilian color this indulges in much more than Istanbul. Washington again shows the power of justice, a binary world strictly divided into good and bad, as well as wrinkles in his seventh decade - not a sad given, but rather an ornament for any action hero. Fuqua, unlike the increasingly rare Washington, does not stop, continuing to run in the production of action movies, even after a clip of films with blank cartridges ("Liberation", "Infinity"), his name in the credits is still as regular.

Whether mediocre action movies need sequels is a reasonable question, but in decent societies of moviegoers, it's probably not asked. Fuqua squeezes everything out of his hero, whom Washington plays with the utmost delicacy: the same perfectionist quirks with the unfolding of napkins, valiant smirk and intellectual detachment. Obligatory - manual therapy over gangsters with the use of an arsenal of stabbing and cutting objects. If in the second "Equalizer", let's say, the Turkish flavor was politely pushed aside: no Istanbul locations, no autochthonous villains (there McCool fought with his negligent American colleagues) - then in the threequel the authors decided to have fun to the fullest, giving themselves to the local entourage in full. Fights and shootouts among narrow Italian streets, the camera constantly snatches the most beautiful sculptures, and the antagonists themselves - temperamental thugs with tattoos, in between cases, eating spaghetti. While the locals passionately love life and watch movies on the wall of the house with romantic fondness, the bandits press innocent fishmongers.

This time there are fewer sentiments, toothless action - too (the whole hour is spent on the introductory part), and McCool himself became a little more wordy. But in violence Fuqua's tape has tweaked the runners: there are broken limbs, and severed hands in mafia style, and in general a rich set of graphic joys. Whether the tape benefits from this - here, of course, barely. But to say that the third "Equalizer" hit the dirt, too, is an exaggeration. Simply Fuqua, always remaining a genre director, drove "The Equalizer" into a narrow niche of second-rate action films, which have quite predictable dynamics of life: the first movie is well known and still watched, the second is lost in memory, and the presence of the third learned about the post facto. Another McCall's adventures in search of justice may not find its audience - to watch for the third time, as a vigilante killer slices up countless gangsters, is not only a pleasure, but to some extent a tedious ordeal. And to appeal either to Washington's charisma or to the actors' chemistry (there are basically no stars here, except for the occasional Dakota Fanning) becomes more and more difficult and pointless.