There Will Be Consequences.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, Orson Bean, Bill Pullman, Melissa Leo, Jonathan Scarfe |
Director |
Antoine Fuqua |
Screenplay | Richard Wenk, based on the TV series by Michael Sloan, Richard Lindheim |
Music | Harry Gregson-Williams |
Cinematography | Oliver Wood |
Editing | Conrad Buff IV |
Sound formats | Dolby Digital, DTS, Dolby Atmos, Dolby Surround 7.1 |
Made in | 2018 |
Produced by | Columbia Pictures, Escape Artists, Fuqua Films, Lonetree Entertainment, Mace Neufeld Productions, Sony Pictures Entertainment |
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Genre | Crime thriller. |
Language | Strong impact crude language occurs fairly frequently throughout the film in the context of swearing, aggressive exchanges and even in derogatory and insulting contexts. |
Nudity | None |
Sex | None |
Violence | The film contains frequent, strong impact displays of realistic, vicious violence, often resulting in blood-letting and other noticeable injuries, containing some accentuation techniques such as details, close-ups and realistic sound effects. |
Prejudice | Infrequent low to mild prejudicial language based on gender and race within the context of swearing and the characterisation of the individuals uttering the words. |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | None (sic) |
Comments | The action crime thriller explores themes of vigilantism, killings, sabotage, gangsters, friendship, investigation, crime, revenge, rescue, abduction, murder, justice and death, with the negative themes dealing with crime, vigilantism and killings outweighing the positive ones dealing with friendship and justice. Although the film contains some pro-social messages regarding fighting for justice and protecting the innocent, negative messages about violence as a means to achieve goals and solve-problems is sustained throughout. Themes and messages are complex and mature and likely to be confusing for cognitively, emotionally and morally immature children under 16 years, especially teenagers who are highly susceptible to media influences. Themes are also presented with a strong sense of threat and menace, as contained in frequent displays of bloody violence, and an underlying sense of suspense, all intensified by the enhanced audio-visual effects of the cinematic format, and may therefore be disturbing, upsetting, distressing and potentially psychologically harmful to children under 16 years. Negative messages of violence being a means to an end may also mislead and morally harm immature viewers under 16 years, who are still developing an independent moral value system. |
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R: Restricted | unknown |
Runtime | 121 |
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. |
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Blood / Gore / Gross |
Guns / Weapons |
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Alcohol / Drugs |
Smoking |
Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
Imitative Behaviour |
Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
Music (Scary/Tense) |
Music (Inappropriate) |
Topics to talk about |
Suggested age limit 16 + |
Positive messages |
Positive role models |
Violence |
Sex |
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Consumerism |
Drinking, drugs, smoking |
Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Todd McCarthy Zen killer loses some of his cool. | 10 | |
Cape Times Michael O'Sullivan Equal parts violence and blood-letting. | 15 | |
24.com Ilan Preskovsky There is clearly a good film to be made with this character, this actor and this director but The Equalizer wasn’t it (I don’t think; I genuinely remember next to nothing about it despite having definitely seeing it and reviewing it for this very website a mere four years ago) and once you get past its opening act, the Equalizer 2 really, really isn’t it either. | 5 | |
Metacritic.com 40 critics | 10 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 110 critics | 11 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer The Equalizer 2 delivers the visceral charge of a standard vigilante thriller, but this reunion of trusted talents ultimately proves a disappointing case study in diminishing returns. | 10 | |
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics | 10 | |
CommonSenseMedia Jeffrey M. Anderson Sequel offers more stylish, inventive, violent action. | 10 | |
What the People say | ||
Metacritic.com users 35 users | 14 | |
Rottentomatoes users 2149 users | 15 | |
IMDB 4658 Netizens | 14 | |
The Movie DB Community | 12 | |
Average .. 57% | 11 |