When he gets home, he finds Susan Plummer ( Melissa Leo) already there, and they share a friendly dinner. McCall goes to the book store to find a new book he ordered, and he sees that the clerk is Grace, and her daughter recognizes him, but Grace doesn't know McCall was her savior. Calbert to sit down before Resnik forces a gun into his mouth and pulls the trigger. Three men - Resnik ( Jonathan Scarfe), Ari ( Kazy Tauginas), and Kovac ( Garrett Golden) - emerge and shoot the wife in the head. Calbert ( Antoine de Lartigue), comes home to find his wife ( Abigail Marlowe) beaten and crying. After telling them to do the right thing, the leader of the punks tries to hit McCall, but he uses the guy's card to cut him before breaking his and his buddies' bones before leaving. McCall takes her to the hospital and returns to the apartment of the guys who assaulted her.
One night, he is told to take home a young woman named Amy ( Caroline Day), who has been drugged and possibly raped. McCall often interacts with some of his passengers while observing others. Sam is in the middle of a case to try and locate his long-lost sister.
McCall now works as a Lyft driver, with his most frequent rider being an elderly man named Sam Rubenstein ( Orson Bean). In Boston, the mother, Grace ( Tamara Hickey) goes to the office of her lawyer where her daughter ( Rhys Olivia Cote) is waiting for her. He approaches the father and gives him a chance to take the easy way out. McCall surveys the room, sets his timer, and proceeds to punch, smash, stab, and neck-snap all the goons. When the man becomes aware of McCall's mission, he orders his men to take care of him. Robert McCall ( Denzel Washington) enters the bar cart of the train and has a drink with his target, a Turkish man ( Adam Karst) who has kidnapped his daughter from her American mother just to spite his ex-wife and hurt her. The film opens on the Turkish Railway, 400 miles from Istanbul. When one of McCall's long-time friends is found dead, he sets out for vengeance. One day, Susan and DIA operative Dave York, McCall's former teammate, are called to investigate an apparent murder-suicide of an agent and his wife in Brussels. After discovering that the apartment courtyard has been vandalized, McCall accepts an offer from Miles Whittaker, a young resident with an artistic but troubled background, to repaint the walls.
He also helps Sam Rubinstein, an elderly Holocaust survivor who is looking for a painting of his sister the two siblings were separated when they were transported to different camps by the Nazis, but the painting is found to be auctioned off and Sam cannot prove that he owns it. McCall anonymously travels to Istanbul by train to retrieve a local bookstore owner's daughter who was kidnapped by her father.
#EQUALIZER TWO DRIVER#
He is working as a Lyft driver and assists the less fortunate with the help of his friend, Susan Plummer. Seeing an older black man take on this role has, still today, a novelty of its own: Robert may be a vigilante, but in spirit he's anything but a rebel.Former Marine and Defense Intelligence Agency spy Robert McCall now lives in a diverse apartment complex in urban Massachusetts. Rather, they hark back to a myth that has been crucial to American cinema for much longer: the paradox that civilisation can only be sustained by men comfortable with uncivilised violence.
#EQUALIZER TWO TV#
The Walter Mitty fantasy of an ordinary guy with extraordinary abilities is a stock element in modern action movies, such as the Taken films with Liam Neeson.īut while the Equalizer films are unapologetic pulp, inspired very loosely by the 1980s TV show of the same name with Edward Woodward, Antoine Fuqua and writer Richard Wenk don't exactly play this trope for laughs. A widower living alone in a modest apartment, he's your friendly neighbourhood oracle, providing guidance and emotional support to those around him and unleashing his violent skill-set only when necessary, such as when he gets embroiled in a new plot involving one of his former colleagues (Melissa Leo) from the CIA. Credit: APīack home in Boston, not much has changed for Robert, although he's left his job at a hardware store to work as a Lyft driver. Denzel Washington shows his mastery of craft in the slow-burning Equalizer 2.
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