This grounded world just keeps most of its darkness in their presence, sometimes feeling like a doomed, helpless world. There is one side in the film when it's totally gripping, that is when we just see the protagonist as a person living in an ordinary life, often being with people and often encountering them getting in trouble by crime. If you tend to ignore the sentiments and shade of reality, you can still tell that it's a pretty entertaining piece of action, but in general it's just difficult to not notice its mess of tones, even with that amount of fun. The film troubles when it gets out of hand to its glorious vigilantism despite it takes place in a world seems apart from that context. It somehow pays off when he starts killing bad guys in cold blood, and it's amazing how he could still carry the character's humanity along the way.
This reinvention in comparison aims to be darker and much violent, but the film's ambition is basically turning its star, Denzel Washington, into a grittier action hero. The Equalizer is loosely based on an 80s television series with the same name.
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