![]() The violently avenging hero is a durable American archetype, and denying it - and the indefensible, irresistible pleasures of watching primitive justice in action - is probably pointless at this stage in our history. He’s especially persuasive playing the kind of brutal redeemers who unblinkingly snuff out the murderous many to save a single innocent, which is exactly what he does at the start of “The Equalizer 2.” ![]() Washington has been meting out extreme punishment for some time. One of the reigning symbolic patriarchs of genre cinema - a fraternity that includes Clint Eastwood, Liam Neeson and the rather less-convincing Bruce Willis - Mr. ![]() Vengeance is mine, saith the lord, but that was before Denzel Washington stepped up.
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