The third entry in the durable action franchise based on the 1980s TV show was shot in scenic Italy, where Denzel Washington's vigilante has some business.
have used the third installment of this trilogy as the opportunity for an Italian vacay, with vigilante hero Robert McCall leaving Boston behind for the old country and a taste of “la dolce vita.” But first, Robert has to take care of business before he can truly enjoy retirement on the Amalfi coast, which means ridding a charming village of some pesky mafiosi.
It’s clear Fuqua has been watching his Italian gangster movies, and he revels in the visual drama offered by the setting and subgenre. His compositions are stuffed with religious iconography, Baroque embellishments, claustrophobic medieval alleys and lots and lots of pasta. But he and cinematographer Robert Richardson put their own stamp on the imagery, draining and desaturating the color palette of the picturesque seaside town of Positano.
Speaking of Positano, the iconic Instagram-influencer destination poses here as a village called Altomonte, which is a real place situated between Sicily and Naples, though it is much further inland. It’s unclear why Fuqua renamed such a recognizable slice of the Italian coast for another town, but it’s sort of par for the course when it comes to the plot of “The Equalizer 3,” which is the most ephemeral of the series.
We don’t come to “Equalizer” movies for story, and this third installment privileges performance and visceral, dramatic thrills over everything else. We start in media res: Robert has already laid waste to a group of anonymous men at a Sicilian winery, butcher knives buried in brains. He will soon punch a pistol into another guy’s head and get shot himself in the process while fleeing.
The appeal of this film is watching Washington do what he does best, and he’s having a hell of a lot of fun here, quietly threatening bad guys, flashing toothy grins, pontificating about good and evil and the necessity to do evil in order to be good, putting the hurt on swaggering psychos. It’s also the reunion of Washington with his
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