Rolling Action/Adventure/Crime/Thriller/Vengeance/Revenge/Genre Movie Thread

John Wick isn't about rules it's about gun kata

Both films totally drag when they get too into the "worldbuilding" of assassin club at the expense of action

i tried to watch HITMAN:AGENT 47 yesterday but i just didn't have it in me...

i might have still been a little too WICKed out.

looking forward. loved the books. someone will probably start a thread for it and there will be highfalutin' talk on there. until then...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89OP78l9oF0

The Equalizer, is it ... graphic?

most of the violence is of the super-fast modern action variety. people get shot really fast and bloodlessly. but there are a couple of gruesome moments.

Thanks. That bloody hammer he's cleaning above I'll guess is from one of the latter.

actually, its an off camera hammer beatdown! i know, what are the odds?

denzel’s equalizer movies are bad and stupid but i kinda... love em anyway?

They have excellent villains, is the thing.
As does Small Town Crime, which channels the late Elmore Leonard better than most other movies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW0Cuhlu5wI

equalizer was unsubtle but 'stately' is a good description and you just cant argue with denzel going ice-cold when they turn down their chance

fits in with jack reacher imo (maybe a point lower on the scale), standard product but delivered with a bit of care. plot either isnt there at all or came in a flatpack, characters likewise, but really nicely done, shot, hits its beats.

rainswept stormy climax of equalizer 2 has only grown in my estimation since I posted here, it’s grate

tonight, e.r. indoors permitting a second in a row (unlikely)

it could charitably be viewed as high concept stuff tho, right?

what if a-team, but one

what if halloween, but good guy

what if wick, no dog

what if obsessive compulsive disorder, but it makes u a better killer

it’s hard to imagine anyone but denzel pulling off such a delicate balancing act, the whole enterprise really relies entirely on his star power

halloween but good guy is otm, really - there’s not really much tension in whether denzel is ever in any danger, the real pleasure is watching him mete out unflinching bursts of violence justice

i mean look i like ben affleck just fine but the accountant is balls and really there's f all difference but swapping in denzel

the thing with him not using guns but only intermittently whats that about

keeps the audience guessing

wait did that dude just fall over

massively satisfyingly brief final battle that

as soon as pedro pascal shows up you know he’s gonna be the bad guy but that’s no knock on him - love that dude

i didnt recognise him. i never do.