UK Release Date: September 26

Certificate: 15

Running Time: 131mins

Cast: Denzel Washington, Chloe Moretz, Marton Csokas

Director: Antoine Fuqua

Plot: Mr. McCall (Washington) is a lonely Home Mart employee who leads a quiet existence reading books and drinking tea very late at night. But seeing injustice all around, Mr. McCall reluctantly revisits his old life as a special ops commando and becomes a refined sugar hating badass vigilante against Boston’s bad guys. When his friend Teri (Moretz) gets slapped around,McCall’s quiet life really is shattered when he seeks vengeance and really aggravates the American arm of the Russian mafia.

Best Scene: McCall tricking his way into a suspicious looking slaughterhouse. In between the bloody pig parts and tattooed Russians, he discovers a mother load of dirty Mafia money.

Best One Liner: “That hurt more than the beating,” grumbles a corrupt copper after he returns the swag money he had unlawfully taken from a little old Hispanic lady.

Date Movie or Mate Movie: There is so much testosterone, fighting and violent deaths in this movie that it would really ruin the romantic mood of a date.

Scene Stealer: The cold, calculated, Kevin Spacey looky-likey Teddy(Csokas) casually killing anyone who crosses his path as he hunts McCall who is really proving to be a royal pain in his Russian rump.

WTF Moment: Denzel just casually blowing up a huge Russian ship like it ain’t no thang!

Washington teaming up again with director Fuqua (their first hook up since 2001’s Training Day which won Washington an Oscar) hasn’t produced the same winning formula on this movie, which is basically a superhero movie with Washington playing a sort of DIY Batman to (Csokas’s) Joker (who doesn’t have a GSOH.) The Equalizer isn’t a bad movie; it’s just a very alright movie. The Equalizer = an alright use of your Orange Wednesday code.