Denzel Washington's The Equalizer Taps Into That Killer Die Hard Vibe

There’s a gripping scene in Antoine Fuqua’s justice thriller The Equalizer that’s so Macho, so Red-Blooded and – dare I say – so American that the only way to properly cleanse your palette after watching it is by eating a steak. It isn’t a short sequence, either. The final confrontation between Denzel Washington’s do-gooder and the Russian enforcer he’s opposing is a lengthy, choreographed battle of wits, brawn and endurance that takes place, fittingly, in a big-box tool warehous...