Movie Review: The Equalizer

I saw The Equalizer the other day. Overall, it is an entertaining, albeit overwrought film. It was enjoyable in itself, but it is not really anything that special. Denzel W. plays a hardware store laborer who a in previous life was a CIA agent. He takes on the role of a sort of vigilante, mentor, trying to impose a sort of order on the world. There is a certain appeal to this story line. In one arc, he helps avenge the beating of a prostitute, in another he helps an overweight kid get a...