Taglines: There will be consequences.
Former Marine and Defense Intelligence Agency spy Robert McCall now lives in a diverse apartment complex in urban Massachusetts. He is working as a Lyft driver and assists the less fortunate with the help of his close friend and former DIA colleague, Susan Plummer. McCall anonymously travels to Istanbul by train to retrieve a local bookstore owner’s daughter who was kidnapped by her father.
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. After discovering that the apartment courtyard has been vandalised, McCall accepts an offer from Miles Whittaker, a young resident with an artistic but troubled background, to repaint the walls.
One day, Susan and DIA operative Dave York, McCall’s former teammate, are called to investigate the apparent murder-suicide of an agency affiliate and his wife in Brussels. When the two separate after reaching their hotel, Susan is accosted and killed in an apparent robbery by two men with backpacks who got off the elevator on her floor. When he receives the news, McCall begins to investigate both her death and the case she was working on.
After reviewing elevator CCTV footage, McCall determines that while Susan could have been simply the victim of a robbery, as the official account concluded, the suspects’ foreknowledge of her specific floor and the expertly-delivered fatal stab wound suggest that she was specifically targeted. He also confirms that the incident into which Susan was looking was merely staged to look like a murder-suicide, and that Susan’s death is probably connected to it. McCall makes contact with York, who had thought him dead for years, and informs York of his findings.
During one of his shifts driving, McCall is attacked by a man posing as a passenger. McCall kills the assailant and retrieves his phone. Breaking through military-grade encryption, McCall discovers that his former partner, York, was on the phone’s call list. He visits York at his home and confronts him, where York admits that he’s now a mercenary after feeling used and discarded by the government; York further divulges that he himself finished Susan off, as she would have figured out that he was behind the Brussels killing. McCall leaves the house where York’s three teammates–Kovac, Ari, and Resnik–are arriving across the street. McCall promises to kill the entire team before escaping safely by getting a ride from York’s unsuspecting wife and children.
Resnik and Ari head to Susan’s house to kill her husband Brian, but McCall evacuates Brian first. York and Kovac break into McCall’s apartment, where Miles is starting the paint job he proposed to McCall. Monitoring via webcams, McCall instructs Miles to hide in a hidden passage concealed behind a book case; when York seems to close in on the passage’s two-way mirror, McCall phones him to taunt him. Miles emerges from hiding shortly after York and Kovac seem to leave, but is captured as he opens the apartment’s front door.
The Equalizer 2 (sometimes promoted as The Equalizer II or EQ2) is a 2018 American thriller film[4][5] directed by Antoine Fuqua. It is the sequel to the 2014 film The Equalizer, which was based on the TV series of the same name. The film stars Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, Melissa Leo, and Bill Pullman. It follows retired United States Marine and ex-DIA agent Robert McCall as he sets out on a path of revenge after one of his friends is killed. The film is the fourth collaboration between Washington and Fuqua, following Training Day (2001), The Equalizer (2014), and The Magnificent Seven (2016).
The Equalizer 2 (2018)
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, Orson Bean, Bill Pullman, Melissa Leo, Jonathan Scarfe, Sakina Jaffrey, Kazy Tauginas, Garrett Golden, Tamara Hickey, Rhys Olivia Cote
Screenplay by: Richard Wenk, Michael Sloan
Production Design by: Naomi Shohan
Cinematography by: Oliver Wood
Film Editing by: Conrad Buff
Costume Design by: Jenny Gering
Set Decoration by: David Schlesinger
Art Direction by: Tom Frohling, Lauren Rosenbloom
Music by: Harry Gregson-Williams
MPAA Rating: R for brutal violence throughout, language, and some drug content.
Ristributed by: Columbia Pictures
Nelease Date: July 20, 2018
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