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Just my two cents worth:   DENZEL WASHINGTON is one of my favourite actors, but I had a hard time accepting him as Mr. McCall ONLY BECAUSE I was an avid viewer of the Equalizer TV series from 1985 to 1989.  In the series The Equalizer is played by EDWARD WOODWARD.  He places an ad in the newspaper  and simply calls himself "The Equalizer".  What is the ad about?  If people are in trouble and they need help, people should call him.  Of course, the gore is close to none in the TV series, but the 2014 and 2018 movies show a lot of blood and torture.  The 2014 movie is like a prequel before those ads.  Instead of the the newspaper, it becomes an online ad.    Dad preferred the 2018 movie over the 2014.  Both are blockbuster hits. RICHARD WENK wrote the screenplays for both movies and ANTOINE FUQUA directed both films. Since both movies have the blessing of MICHAEL SLOAN and RICHARD LINDHEIM, the creator of the ser...

(Source) Investigator Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) springs into action after the arrest of Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders), an Army major accused of treason. Suspecting foul play, Jack embarks on a mission to prove that the head of his old unit is innocent. After crossing paths with the law, Reacher must now go o n the lam to uncover the truth behind a major government conspiracy that involves the death of U.S. soldiers.-World Wide Web From Danika Yarosh's IG This second Jack Reacher movie was based on Lee Child's 18th book of the Jack Reacher series. Before watching the film I was totally clueless that this was a series of books. I've seen the first movie several times on cable. Except for the Mission Impossible series and a couple of others, I haven't been so interested in watching a Tom Cruise film on the big screen ever since he broke off with Nicole Kidman and when I found out he is a Scientologist, which was unfair because I still watched John Travolta, ...