{"id":22773,"date":"2018-08-24T12:18:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T10:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=22773"},"modified":"2018-08-24T12:18:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T10:18:45","slug":"the-equalizer-2-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/the-equalizer-2-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Equalizer 2 Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>he Equalizer 2 <\/em>may look and sound like its predecessor, it&#8217;s quite a different movie in a lot of ways. Leaning away from the revenge-tale of the first film, the sequel ends up playing out more like a spy-thriller than anything else, which works in its favour though, delivering some memorable high-tension moments. Don&#8217;t worry, though \u2013 the stylish and timeously-punctuated action sequences are there, but this is a much more diverse film with a slow-burn payoff rather than a straight punch to the face.<\/p>\n<p>Denzel Washington returns to play hero Robert McCall, who, while still stoic and stern, has a far-more dynamic script to play with this time around, allowing him to showcase a lot more of the character \u2013 including sadness and loss \u2013 rounding out this mysterious ex-operative we&#8217;ve grown to love.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arve-wrapper\" data-mode=\"normal\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-HyNJ3UrGkI\" style=\"max-width:702px;\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n<div class=\"arve-embed-container\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.250000%\"><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/HyNJ3UrGk_I?iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=1&amp;autoplay=0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" frameborder=\"0\" name sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/HyNJ3UrGk_I?iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;autoplay=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The murder-mystery plot of the sequel also pulls back the curtain on some more interesting moments surrounding the cloak-and-dagger world of <em>The Equalizer<\/em>. The initial story points can be a little confusing to the initiated, and a bit disjointed due to some quick location jumps, but director Anton Faqua leaves enough breadcrumbs to allow the you to piece together what&#8217;s happening.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the film does a great job at building some momentum for the franchise. It does follow many of the same beats as the first outing, but manages to carve a somewhat different, more intense tone, and one which strikes closer to home for Washington&#8217;s character.<\/p>\n<p><em>Looking for some more movie magic? Check out the extensive list of DVD and Blu-ray offers on PriceCheck.co.za!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/categories\/11\/DVD+&amp;+Video?utm_source=blog.pricecheck.co.za&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=PriceCheck%20Blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Buttons_ViewOffers-300x57.png\" alt=\"view offers\" width=\"300\" height=\"57\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Want more movie news? Check out our <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/category\/health-fitness-beauty-fashion-recipes-travel-entertainment-news\/entertainment-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entertainment &amp; News<\/a><\/span> section for more great reads &amp; <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/2018\/05\/09\/5-superhero-movies-still-coming-in-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more superhero movies coming your way in 2018!<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We check out Denzel Washington&#8217;s latest entry into The Equalizer franchise to see if the sequel holds up to the first film!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":22774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2849,36],"tags":[3717,3669,2979,3719,558,2712,3718,3668],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/The-Equalizer-2-header.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22773"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22776,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22773\/revisions\/22776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}