In real life, people have to deal with criminals, and unfortunately, law enforcement agencies cannot always protect them. Perhaps that is why everyone loves to watch movies in which criminals and corrupt cops are punished by a fearless hero. For such an audience in 2014, the action movie The Great Equalizer was shot. The actors and the roles that they performed in the film were liked by everyone who knew this topic firsthand.
The Great Equalizer (2014)
In the mid-80s, the television series The Equalizer was popular. In the early 2000s, on its basis, they decided to shoot a picture with a similar name. So the Great Equalizer of 2014 appeared.
According to the plot, a former top-secret secret services agent after the death of his beloved wife fakes his death and, changing his name to Robert McCall, gets a job as a seller in a supermarket. His life is now calm and simple, and in our free time our hero reads classical literature.
Accidentally meeting in a cafe with a teenage girl Teri, whom the Russian mafia forces to engage in prostitution, Robert begins to sympathize with her. One day he learns that she tried to quit "work" - in return the pimps beat her. McCall withdraws all the money from the account and goes to the "owner" Teri to buy the girl. However, the bandits laughed at him. Angry, Robert killed all of them.
To understand what was happening, the right hand of the mafia leader Nikolai Itchenko arrived from Moscow. He manages to get on the trail of Robert. Ultimately, the hero lures criminals to his supermarket and deals with them. To finish the job, McCall goes to Moscow and kills the mafia leader.
Then he returns to his area and begins to read a new book - “The Invisible Man”.
Movie Review Review
With a rather modest budget of 55 million at the box office, the picture earned almost four times as much. Most viewers and critics liked the film, but not everyone.
Although many reviews of the film are positive, the average rating for the film is 7 (on a ten-point scale). Critics often point out that the main drawback of the picture is a bad script, with a lot of shortcomings. In addition, events lack dynamics. Also during the installation, a number of noticeable flaws were allowed.
The production of battle scenes lends itself to criticism. According to most, they are overly uniform. It is clear that in real life it happens, but this is not a documentary, but an art picture.
The image of the Russian mafia also raises criticism - critics from the CIS countries note that criminals from Russia shown in the film correspond to the realities of the 90s, but not modern ones.
The main advantage of the project, according to the absolute majority, are well-chosen actors. The “Great Equalizer” actually covers most of its shortcomings with the virtuoso playing of Denzel Washington, Marton Chokash and Chloe Moretz.
Denzel Washington as Robert McCall
The future “great equalizer” was born in New York in the winter of 1954.
At first, he dreamed of becoming a physician, later - a journalist, but he chose the career of an actor.
Washington made its debut in 1974 in one of the episodes of the painting "Thirst for Death." However, the actor soon switched to television - in the television series The Wilma Rudolph Story.
The first recognition he received for the role of Dr. Philip Chandler in the TV series St. Elsewhere. However, a real breakthrough was a minor role in The Cleric of Freedom in 1988. For her, Denzel was nominated for an Oscar. By the way, throughout his career, Washington was nominated for this award 6 times, but received it only twice.
Among the greatest achievements of the actor are participation in the films Philadelphia, Much Ado About Nothing, Virtuosity, Courage in Battle, Power of Fear, Deja Vu, Access Code Cape Town and The Great Equalizer ".
Actors of the Denzel Washington level often, having achieved everything, are immersed in debauchery and drugs. He is not like that. Denzel is a staunch Christian who reads the Bible daily and is involved in various charitable organizations.
Marton Chokash as the main villain
The main antagonist is Nikolai Itchenko, performed by Marton Chokash, an actor of Hungarian descent from New Zealand.
According to most film critics, Marton managed to create the image of a charismatic villain in the film "The Great Equalizer." Actors like him are often held hostage by the same role, after which they are constantly offered to play similar characters. However, Marton is an exception, his characters are diverse.
Famous actors are involved in the film. The “Great Equalizer” did not reveal Chokash to the world - he became famous long before this work. Negative characters brought him fame: Yorgi from The Three X, Guy de Lusignan from The Kingdom of Heaven, the brutal slave owner Jack Barts from President Lincoln: The Vampire Hunter and others.
At the same time, there were positive roles in the actor's career. So, in the fantastic action movie Eon Flux, Chokash played the noble, but deceived by his brother's beloved Eon Trevor Goodchild.
Chloe Grace Moretz as a young prostitute Teri
The main female role went to the charming Chloe Grace Moretz, whose expressive blue eyes flash on the posters of many large-budget paintings of recent years.
Chloe was the youngest on the set of the movie The Great Equalizer, the rest of the actors were much older than her. Moreover, she could compete with each of them in terms of fame, because behind the young blonde was involved in more than 30 projects.
She began her career in the movie Chloe at age 7, having received a cameo role in the series Defender. Then there was a series of appearances in TV shows and movies, until in 2010 the actress won the main role in the action movie “Kick”, after which she became a star.
The most famous works of Moretz are: “Provincial”, “Guardian of Time”, “Gloomy Shadows”, “Telekinesis”, “If I Stay”, “The Great Equalizer” and “5th Wave”.
Other actors in the movie The Great Equalizer
In addition to Washington, Moretz and Chokash, other famous actors starred in the film. Among them is Paul David Harbor, who played the corrupt cop Masters.
Former comrade Robert Bryan was played by Bill Pullman (Independence Day, While You Slept). The role of his wife Susan went to Melissa Leo in the film "The Great Equalizer."
Other actors were less well-known, but also managed to light up in different projects.
Among them are Haley Bennett, Vladimir Kulich and the elder brother of Mark Waldberg - Robert.
In addition to the spectacle of victory over the evil of good with fists (more precisely, with a hammer), this picture showed the audience that you need to try to cope with the problems on your own, and then, perhaps, you will get help, but you must take the first step yourself. So, if you want to lose weight, you need to do exercises and go on a diet, as Robert's obese colleague did. If you are not comfortable with your work, you should try to find another, as Robert and Teri did in their time.
Of course, this movie has a lot of flaws, but even without looking at them, the movie turned out to be good. Soon everyone will be able to see its continuation. And if Washington has already signed a contract to participate in the project, will the audience meet again with Teri - for now, is kept secret.