The Equalizer 3 (2023)

Xarpolis said:

In 2, he was a Lyft driver who beat up bad guys that were stalking his Lyft passengers. He was in a big city somewhere. Then he went out to this other region (possibly another country) where it was very rural and on a peninsula or something similar. He was in this very old village with a tower from WW2 or some shit, and he killed a bunch of people that attacked that village. He might have been the target for this attack, but I don't remember. I'll have to actually watch the movie again at some point.

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He was avenging the murder of his female colleague we see in the first movie by a corrupt bunch of CIA operatives led by Pedro Pascal. The town at the end is where he lived with his wife before she died.

Keep us posted.

Kaines said:

That's The Karate Kid.

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Wrong. He has to wash/wax the cars, paint the house and sand the floor in the first movie.

In karate kid 2 he hammers nails into a fence

Saw this yesterday. It was OK, not great, maybe not as good as the first one, but it was OK. In many ways, I enjoyed it more than the latest John Wick movie. IMO, those movies border on the ridiculous. Maybe they're supposed to, but it doesn't work for me. I don't have a friend who couldn't win a gun fight against a blind dude or survive falling down a thousand steps. Also, John Wick is in it for himself. There's not a lot of rooting for the underdog or the defenseless. The Equalizer is a hero and it's more satisfying when he fucks up a bad guy. It's not personal, it's like he's all seven of the samurai there to protect the village. I give it a 7 out of 10.

Sounds better than the 2nd movie which is all I really cared about.

Took my 82 year old dad to see it. There were two of guys total in the theatre, lol.

It was great. We enjoyed this movie every bit as much as we enjoyed the first one. Denzel is always awesome.

already out on VOD, that was fast. like under 2 weeks in theaters lol

It was a month but that's still pretty fast.

I was already planning to see this since I'm a big fan of the first ones, but also I was in Positano on the Amalfi coast a week or so ago, where it turns out Denzel was holidaying on a 3 story high yatch. Friends got to meet with and stuff and said he was pretty cool in person. Given it's also set and filmed in southern italy, I'm even more keen to see it and see place I was actually in recently.

For a pretty long while this movie is great, helped by the location and the cinematic flair of Fuqua. Sadly, it slowly and surely get dumber and dumber and even the catharsis of gangsters getting their comeuppance does not counterbalance it.

Horrible dumb movie. Time for DW to retire before he becomes a black Liam Neeson.

I liked this. It was a lot slower and not as much action as the first two, but good. Better than the second movie. First is still the best.

Also had no clue that the female agent was Dakota Fanning. I forgot she existed.

binged the first time and watched this one.
Enjoyed it. As said, better than the second, probably on par with the first.
I don't get the too long comments, since it's the shortest of the 3 movies, and gets to the action far quicker than them. It's pretty much part of the tone / style of the series to have a long setup showing him bedding in and finding a home before going all Man on Fire.

Caught this last night. Definitely worth a watch if you liked the other Equalizers. Bad guys die, Denzel is Denzel, nothing complicated going on. I did find putting subtitles on helped quite a bit, even with the English portions as it seemed somewhat quiet / mumbly.

My only gripe is the ending / motive. Perhaps I am missing the references or call backs but the 'why' just seemed random being a good dude. '..gave him a Lyft once...' was nice.

Maybe he is grooming Dakota and this is the Equalizer 7 origin story when she takes over.

Kajiimagi said:

Watched this with the wife tonight, we both really liked it. The town / village it was shot in was beautiful and looked really good in 4k. Bad guys die / DW kicks ass, standard stuff but worth the watch.

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Exactly. Really likable good guy kills off really unlikable bad guys in a beautiful setting.