Equalizer 2 movie#
Equalizer 2 series#
Equalizer 2 tv#

Very few actors can make lines like, “I’m going to kill each and every one of you, and the only disappointment is I only get to do it once,” work, but Washington can without breaking a sweat. The law of diminishing returns is in play, especially in a storm-tossed climax that doesn’t come close to the kill-crazy hardware store antics of the original, but it’s still fun to see Denzel kicking all kinds of ass at the ripe old age of 60. But when you’re in the hands of old stagers like Fuqua, writer Richard Wenk and Washington, even the predictable can elicit pleasure.

Equalizer 2 movie#

This is the kind of movie where people die exactly when you expect them to, characters get kidnapped exactly when the plot requires it, and hidden agendas are revealed right on cue. Then, as it must, the plot kicks in, and things become more generic. These early scenes, in which Antoine Fuqua - working with Washington for the fourth time, following Training Day, The Magnificent Seven, and the first Equalizer - cuts back and forth between McCall’s interactions with different passengers, are a joy, Washington breathing warmth into a character that might otherwise be lost in his self-imposed isolation. He also keeps himself busy as a Lyft driver, which allows the film to introduce a posse of potential clients/punching bags. He becomes attached to a young black man (Sanders) who has a gift with a paintbrush, but may be heading for a life of crime. Then, we head back to the States, where McCall has set up a quiet life for himself in a tenement building. And it’s that McCall we pick up with this time around, taking out a group of bad guys on a train bound for Turkey in a neat, efficient, brutal credits re-establisher.

Equalizer 2 tv#

At the end of the first movie, he became more recognisably the McCall of the TV show, a mercenary for hire, available to right wrongs for those whose wrongs have remained resolutely unrighted.

Equalizer 2 series#

Robert McCall, his retired black ops veteran, the sort of man who can kill you with a credit card, is the perfect vessel to peg a series on. At first glance, The Equalizer, Washington’s big-screen version of the beloved Ewah Woowah ’80s TV show, may seem a strange choice of project with which to pop his franchise cherry.

For all of his attempts to help those in need, Robert McCall was still troubled by his limitations in The Equalizer 2’s ending as he realized that he could have been tempted into crime like his brothers in arms.Until, as they say, now. However, he couldn’t save the men that he fought alongside and, ultimately, was the one to kill them. By encouraging Miles to pursue art instead of a life of crime, Robert passed on his wisdom to the next generation. Robert could easily have become another disgruntled mercenary like Dave, Kovak, Ari, and Resnik, and he was forced to contend with this fact in The Equalizer 2’s ending. As the New Testament says, “ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God,” and Robert realized this when it proved easier to stab out Dave’s eyes than to make him see the error of his ways. Robert reunites a Holocaust survivor with his long-lost sibling thanks to his skills, but can’t force Dave to see a potential path for his life that is not defined by violence and retribution. While The Equalizer 2’s ending is not tragic, there is a sense of sadness in the coda. There, using the local watchtower as a base, Robert picked them off by using a severe storm for cover, eventually facing off against Dave in one-on-one combat.

This is when director Antoine Fuqua’s sequel got truly brutal, as Dave and his associates kidnapped Miles and followed Robert to his seaside hometown. Robert realized this when he saw Dave’s number in the call list of an assassin who tried and failed to kill Robert. However, Robert outmaneuvered them and forced them to meet him on home turf so that he would have the advantage.Įven though Dave spent most of The Equalizer 2 trying to find Susan’s killer alongside Robert, the duplicitous character turned out to be the culprit in the killing. Feeling abandoned, Dave and the rest of Robert’s former squad killed Susan and intended to do the same to Robert. Dave, along with Robert’s other former colleagues Kovak, Ari, and Resnik, turned to crime after they were left behind by the DIA despite years of faithful service. He was working as a mercenary and knew that Susan would soon uncover the fact that Dave was also the one who staged the murder-suicide in Brussels. Shockingly, Pedro Pascal’s seemingly sweet Dave York was the one who killed Susan.