The film "Great equalizer": actors, roles and reviews

In real life, people have to deal with criminals, and unfortunately, law enforcement agencies can not always protect them. Perhaps that's why everyone likes to watch movies in which criminals and corrupt policemen are punished by a fearless hero. For such an audience in 2014 was shot action movie "Great equalizer." The actors and the roles they performed in the film liked everyone who is familiar with the topic firsthand.

The film "The Great Equalizer" (2014)

In the mid-80s, the television series The Equalizer was popular. In the early 2000's on its basis decided to remove the picture with a similar name. This is how the "Great Equalizer" of 2014 appeared.

According to the story, the former top secret intelligence agent after the death of his beloved wife staged his death and, changing his name to Robert McCall, is arranged by the seller in a supermarket. His life is now calm and simple, and in his spare time our hero reads classical literature.

Accidentally having met in a cafe with a teenage girl Teri, which the Russian mafia forces to engage in prostitution, Robert begins to sympathize with her. One day he learns that she tried to quit "work" - in retaliation pimps beat her. McCall withdraws all the money from the account and goes to Teri's "master" to buy the girl. However, the bandits laughed at him. Angry, Robert killed all of them.

To understand what was happening, the right hand of the mafia leader Nikolai Itchenko arrived from Moscow. He manages to get on the trail of Robert. Ultimately, the hero lures criminals to his supermarket and deals with them. To complete the case, McCall goes to Moscow and kills the mafia leader. Then he returns to his district and begins to read a new book - "Invisible Man".

Review of the reviews for the movie

With a fairly modest budget of 55 million at the box office, the picture earned almost four times as much. Most viewers and critics liked the film, but not all.

Although many reviews on the film are positive, the average score for the film is 7 (on a ten-point scale). Critics often note that the main drawback of the picture is a bad scenario, with a lot of flaws. In addition, events lack dynamics. Also during the installation there was a number of notable flaws.

Criticism lends itself to the setting of battle scenes. In the opinion of the majority, they are excessively monotonous. It is clear that in real life it does happen, but this is not a documentary, but an artistic picture.

Complaints and the image of the Russian mafia - critics from the CIS countries note that the criminals from Russia, shown in the tape, correspond to the realities of the 90's, but not modern.

The main advantage of the project, according to the absolute majority, are well-chosen actors. The "great equalizer" actually covers most of its shortcomings with the virtuosic play of Denzel Washington, Marton Chokash and Chloe Moretz.

Denzel Washington as Robert McCall

The future "great equalizer" was born in New York in the winter of 1954. At first he dreamed of becoming a doctor, later a journalist, but he chose his career as an actor.

Debuted Washington in 1974 in one of the episodes of the film "The Thirst for Death." However, soon the actor switched to television - the television series The Wilma Rudolph Story.

The first recognition he received for the role of Dr. Philip Chandler in the series. Elsewhere. However, the real breakthrough was a secondary role in the "Cry of Freedom" in 1988. For her, Denzel was nominated for an Oscar. By the way, throughout his career Washington was nominated for this award 6 times, but only twice.

Among the greatest achievements of the actor - participation in films "Philadelphia", "A lot of noise from nothing", "Virtuosity", "Courage in battle", "The power of fear", "Deja vu", "Access code" Cape Town "" and "Great equalizer ".

Actors of the Denzel Washington level often, having achieved everything, get stuck in debauchery and drugs. He is not like that. Denzel is a committed Christian and daily reads the Bible, and also participates in various charitable organizations.

Marton Chokash as the main villain

The main antagonist is Nikolai Itchenko performed by Marton Chokash, an actor of Hungarian origin from New Zealand. According to most critics, Marton managed to create the image of a charismatic scoundrel in the tape "Great equalizer." Actors like him are often hostages of one role, after which they are constantly offered to play the same type of characters. However, Marton is an exception, his characters are diverse.

In the film, famous actors are involved. The "great equalizer" did not open the world to Chokash - he was famous long before this work. Fame brought him negative characters: Yorgi from the "Three Iks", Guy de Luzinyan from "Kingdom of Heaven", cruel slave owner Jack Barts from "President Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" and others.

At the same time, there were positive roles in the actor's career. So, in the fantastic action film "Aion Flux" Chokash played the noble, but deceived brother of the beloved Eon Trevor Gudchild.

Chloe Grace Moret as the young prostitute Teri

The main female role went to the charming Chloe Grace Moretz, whose expressive blue eyes flashed on the posters of many large-budget paintings of recent years.

Chloe was the youngest on the set of the film "The Great Equalizer," the actors were much older than her. At the same time, she could compete with each of them in terms of the degree of fame, because over the shoulders of the young blonde was involved in more than 30 projects.

She began her career in the movie Chloe at age 7, receiving an episodic role in the series "Defender". Next was a series of appearances in serials and movies, until in 2010 the actress received a major role in the parody action movie "Pipets", after which she became a star.

The most famous works of Moretz are: Provincial, Timekeeper, The Dark Shadows, Telekinesis, If I Stay, The Great Leveler and The 5th Wave.

Other actors of the film "The Great Equalizer"

In addition to Washington, Moretz and Chokash, other famous actors also appeared in the film. Among them - Paul David Harbor, who played the corrupt cop Masters.

Former Comrade Robert Bryan was played by Bill Pullman ("Independence Day", "While you were sleeping"). The role of his wife Susan went to Melissa Leo in the film "The Great Equalizer."

Actors others were less well-known, but also managed to light up in different projects. Among them are Hayley Bennett, Vladimir Kulich and Mark Waldberg's older brother Robert.

In addition to the spectacle of victory over the evil of good with fists (more precisely - with a hammer), this picture showed the audience that it is necessary to try to cope with problems on their own, and then, perhaps, you will get help, but the first step must be done yourself. So, if you want to lose weight - you need to do exercises and go on a diet, as did Robert's fat colleague. If you are not comfortable with your work, it's worth trying to find another, as Robert and Teri did in their time.

Of course, this movie has a lot of flaws, but even without looking at them, the film turned out good. Soon everyone will be able to see its continuation. And if Washington has already signed a contract to participate in the project, then will the audience meet again with Teri - while keeping a secret.