The Equalizer 3 (2023)

The Equalizer 3 is the conclusion to Antoine Fuqua's trilogy starring Denzel Washington.

Antoine Fuqua is a solid director, with Training Day, The Terminal List, The Magnificent Seven, Southpaw, and Olympus Has Fallen. This film doesn't have any particular problem direction but editing could have seen another pass as there are many scenes at the beginning that I thought could have flowed better. The editor was Conrad Buff IV who edited Titanic and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, so there shouldn't have been this problem. He is getting old and perhaps his age is starting to show.

Speaking of showing their age Denzel Washington is starting to show his, but in the film, it works. He's supposed to be aging as the child he helped out is now an adult and returns to play a significant role in the film. Dakota Fanning is by no means an action star but she plays the role she was given pretty well.

David Denman is briefly in the film, you might remember him from Brightburn. He previously worked with Fuqua in Emancipation. A bit of movie trivia though, Remo Girone plays Enzo in the film. It wasn't his first time playing Enzo either as he was Enzo Ferrari in Ford v Ferrari.

The film was your above-average assassin movie. B-

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