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With a lone wanderer in tattered rags and ill-fitting boots, the first feature from Albert and Allen Hughes (“From Hell”) in nine years looks like a knockoff of “Mad Max” or “The Road.” But this hell-on-earth movie stars Denzel Washington as a man with a mission beyond mere survival. His sense of purpose gives the film gravitas and a unique twist.

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