![]() The low-level, high-body-count slaughter that ensues (McCall dispatches a half dozen bad guys in under 30 seconds) wafts up through the ranks and rankles the Big Boss aka Pushkin (not the poet). ![]() When she’s savagely beaten by her pimp, a member of the Russian Mafia, McCall can’t help but help her. Another regular is a baby-faced hooker (Chloe Grace Moretz) who changes wigs almost as much as she does customers.īut she is obviously not a happy hooker. ![]() Part of McCall’s strict routine is dinner at a neighborhood diner (cue the Edward Hopper lighting) where he inevitably, compulsively lines up his silverware just so. But it’s not so easy to retire a conscience, no matter how much time you spend coaching a lovable lug through a mini-Biggest Loser program so the kid can become a Home Mart security guard. The picture is a kinda-sorta remake of a mid-80s TV series starring Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, a black-ops superstar who has - supposedly - settled into retirement. However, “The Equalizer,” is far more focused on the contrast between the regular-guy, who works as a manager at the local Home Mart - hmm….yellow themed as opposed to orange -, and the supremely efficient killing machine, who scopes out his battlefield options much as Matt Damon did in “The Bourne Identity.” (Full Disclosure: I’m a sucker for this kind of stuff: corkscrew plus a man’s neck equals corkscrew in man’s neck.) Not that Washington hasn’t flexed those muscles before - in movies like “Man on Fire,” “Safe House,” “2 Guns,” and more. Taking a page from the “Taken” playbook, Washington posits himself as a mild-mannered (on the surface) AARP-ready guy a la Liam Neeson’s recent career swerve into action heroism. To make sure that no fan goes hungry for thrilling stories with great actors, we've added even more examples of similar movies to the Taken franchise so that they never have to.All things being equal, Denzel Washington’s new movie, “The Equalizer,” gets things done. Still, with only three actual movies to indulge in, those fans may quickly be left wanting more of the same action after binging the trilogy. ![]() Updated on March 13th, 2021 by Mark Birrell: Taken is one of those movies where the general popularity of it cannot be understated, even some of the key people involved in making it were surprised by its huge level of success, and, even though star Liam Neeson stepped away from the role of Bryan Mills after the third movie, the Taken TV series kept growth within the fanbase steady. RELATED: 10 Action-Thriller Movies To Watch If You Loved Extractionįor those fans that the franchise has cultivated, that have seen the Taken movies more times than they can count, there are these other action-thriller movies with similar qualities to check out next to satisfy their hunger for brutal revenge stories with respected dramatic actors taking on the role of a violent vigilante. Liam Neeson's turn as Bryan Mills in the 2008 action thriller movie Takenwasn't a big hit with critics but quickly developed a devout fanbase that made it a sleeper hit and spawned two sequels over the next six years.
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