Sort of a lateral topic here, but I was minutes away from buying a Suunto watch after watching the first Equalizer movie.

Suunto is the brand of the watch that Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) uses to tell time and, well, time the time it takes to end the bad guy's time.

Sorry, may have overdone it right there. But you get the gist.

I didn't (buy a Suunto) because I didn't need one. Didn't want one. I don't like digital watches except for G-Shocks, which incidentally is what I'm wearing while writing this, but I did devour, consume the movie. It was so good. Unexpectedly so.

Then came The Equalizer 2 and finally, long overdue, I've watched The Equalizer 3 as well.

In the Equalizer 3, Robert McCall is - again - trying to enjoy his retirement, this time in the fictional town of Altamonte, in Southern Italy.

The setting is actually unclear. The Italian actors in the movie speak using a combination of Calabrese and Sicilian dialects, but a lot of the film is set in Campania, which is where it was actually filmed.

Not that it matters, anyway.

What matters is these gangsters want to do gangster stuff, but McCall gets in the way.

This is the better than the second film. Heaps better. And I reckon it is better than the first one as well.

Visually, it works. Partly because of the dark tones, partly because of the setting.

The story makes a modicum of sense but, as ever, what sells this is the inevitability of McCall's character.

An alternative take on Reacher and vice versa.

A vigilante character that's not a saint and he knows it, and makes progress with a sledgehammer. Anything in his way, gets taken down.

Also, kudos to 68-year-old Washington for making this character credible.

Hopefully we get a fourth film. But if not, that'd be good, too.

Chiefly because I like this 'franchise', and I'd rather see it retired than seeing it ruined by the producers and screenwriters wanting to overdo it.