TORONTO (AP) — It's been a dozen years since Denzel Washington and director Antoine Fuqua rode the corrupt Det. Alonzo Harris and their Los Angeles crime odyssey "Training Day" to Oscar glory (for Washington) and a Hollywood breakthrough (for Fuqua). In "The Equalizer," a very loose adaptation of the 1980s private eye TV series, Washington and Fuqua have finally reteamed, resuming a potent actor-director tandem. [...] when a diner acquaintance (a prostitute played by Chloe Grace Moretz) gets involved with the Russian mafia, his proficiency with violence (not unlike it often is with Liam Neeson) is reawakened. Washington's intensity, perhaps as it would be in any pairing with the veteran actor, is the dominate force between him and his director. Asked what appeals to Fuqua about working with Washington, the actor chuckles: "You want me to leave the room?" Washington and Fuqua had been set to reunite once before in "American Gangster," the saga about the Harlem drug dealer and smuggler Frank Lucas. [...] Universal Studios fired Fuqua weeks before the movie was to begin shooting and, days later, the film was canceled altogether. The basis of the Western, Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai," Fuqua says, is what inspired him to be a filmmaker.