By day, Bob McCall (Denzel Washington, out for a walk), works for a home improvement retailer, but under cloak of darkness, the average Joe segues from Home Depot to lone despot, one Russian mobster at a time. Washington begins by saving the life of a young hooker (a badly miscast Chloë Grace Moretz), but if anyone should be busted for prostitution it’s he. Based on his choice of paychecks over the past decade, it’s time “the greatest actor of his generation” mantle be replaced with a seat on a Comic Con panel. The activation of overhead sprinklers during the climactic big box battle functions as a tribute to DW’s late mentor, Tony Scott. Ditto the depth-compressing telephoto shot of our hero in foreground traipsing slowly towards the camera as a technician detonates a pyrotechnic blast, illuminating the background sky with flames. Yawn. Bill Pullman and Melissa Leo drop in to deliver backstory. One-hit wonder (Olympus Has Fallen) Antoine Fuqua directs. 2014. (2014) — Scott Marks
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