NOTHING HAPPENS IN THIS MOVIE. There are no characters, there is no story, there is no action, there are no stakes, there is no moral or message or point. THERE IS NO POINT TO THIS MOVIE.
Every character are stiff one dimensional pieces of cardboard. About 60% of this movie is just Denzel sitting around in a town in Italy doing jack becoming seen as "one of them". The villains are just some stereotypical mafia guys who are so laughably evil in cruel it's not even fun to hate them.
The action in this movie is sooooooooo brief too. Denzel is pretty much never in danger and always just quickly assassinates the villians.
And easily the worst part of this movie is the climax, because just when things are seeming to start ramping up, the movie is just over. Basically the big mafia boss comes to the town and threatens everyone because Denzel killed his brother in an earlier scene. So at this point you think there might finally be some big action payoff at the end. Nope. Instead what happens is Denzel just magically teleports to the bad guy's house (which he never knew the location of but whatever) and assasinates every guard one by one and then the boss without any sort of struggle. And that's it. He basically just kills everyone with no struggle. In a good movie, this kind of big bad mafia villian would be made to seem untouchable, and it would be an actual struggle for are hero to get to them and kill them. But in the Equalizer 3 are hero just kills a dozen men with no problem. There is no stakes no struggle no sense of urgency. You have no reason to be invested because at no point do you feel like there is any sort of danger.
Every character are stiff one dimensional pieces of cardboard. About 60% of this movie is just Denzel sitting around in a town in Italy doing jack becoming seen as "one of them". The villains are just some stereotypical mafia guys who are so laughably evil in cruel it's not even fun to hate them.
The action in this movie is sooooooooo brief too. Denzel is pretty much never in danger and always just quickly assassinates the villians.
And easily the worst part of this movie is the climax, because just when things are seeming to start ramping up, the movie is just over. Basically the big mafia boss comes to the town and threatens everyone because Denzel killed his brother in an earlier scene. So at this point you think there might finally be some big action payoff at the end. Nope. Instead what happens is Denzel just magically teleports to the bad guy's house (which he never knew the location of but whatever) and assasinates every guard one by one and then the boss without any sort of struggle. And that's it. He basically just kills everyone with no struggle. In a good movie, this kind of big bad mafia villian would be made to seem untouchable, and it would be an actual struggle for are hero to get to them and kill them. But in the Equalizer 3 are hero just kills a dozen men with no problem. There is no stakes no struggle no sense of urgency. You have no reason to be invested because at no point do you feel like there is any sort of danger.
