While the average Hollywood actress struggles to find a worthy role post 30 there is a growing cadre of action hero roles for the Grecian 2000 brigade. I’m not just talking the sadly-not-meta-enough Expendable generation, it is the lone wolves, the revengernators, the one-man army taking the streets (and their wives and daughters obviously) back by force.
Denzel Washington is now firmly inching into that territory with his leading role in The Equalizer, Antoine Fuqua’s big screen adaptation of the 80s TV series. Chloe Moretz is the girl he has to save – take a look at a few trailers to get the idea – then feast eyes on the new UK poster for the film.
Call off the synopsis hunt,
In The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer. He is.
It’s out on the 26th of September.
