Art it most assuredly wasn’t, but 2014’s The Equalizer had its pulpy virtues, most notably a vigilante with obsessive-compulsive tendencies who enacted ridiculously excessive amounts of righteous vengeance on his foes. The moments where Denzel stops speechifying and gets down to business may still pack a grisly wallop, but the level of flab throughout The Equalizer 2 is such that it’s difficult to see anyone walking away satisfied. Dullness is the worst kind of sin that this type of movie can commit; at the preview screening, the seat-shifting was audible by Andrew Wright