The Equalizer 2 (sometimes promoted as The Equalizer II) is an American thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua. It is a sequel to the 2014 film The Equalizer, based on the TV series of the same name, as well as the second installment of The Equalizer trilogy.. The film stars Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, Melissa Leo, and Bill Pullman. It is released by Sony Pictures on July 20, 2018.
Plot Summary[]
After taking down Pushkin's operations, Robert McCall works as a driver for Lyft and assists the less fortunate with the help of his close friend and former DIA colleague Susan Plummer. Robert travels to Istanbul to retrieve the kidnapped 9-year-old daughter of bookstore owner Grace Braelick. With the assistance of Susan, Robert gathers information for Sam Rubinstein, an elderly Holocaust survivor looking to recover a painting of his long-dead sister. After Robert returns home to find that his apartment's courtyard has been vandalized, he accepts an offer from Miles Whittaker, a troubled teen resident with artistic talent, to paint a mural on the walls. Robert also helps one of his passengers, a young woman named Amy, who shows signs of having been drugged and assaulted. He takes Amy to the hospital before returning to brutally beat the men who attacked her.
Susan and DIA officer Dave York, Robert's former partner, are called to investigate the murder-suicide of an agency affiliate and his wife in Brussels. At their hotel, Susan is accosted in her room and killed during what seems to be a robbery. Robert determines that the expertly delivered fatal knifing means that Susan was targeted and that the murder-suicide was also staged, informing Dave of his findings. During one of his Lyft runs, Robert is attacked by an assassin posing as a passenger. He kills the man and retrieves his mobile phone, discovering Dave's number on the phone's call list.
Robert confronts Dave at his home, and Dave confesses that after his unit was disbanded by the government, he and the rest of the members of his team became contract killers. He confirms that he killed Susan because she would have figured out that he was behind the Brussels killings. Robert leaves the house and confronts Dave's teammates: Kovac, Ari, and Resnik. Before departing, he promises to kill them all to avenge Susan's death, and regrets he can only do it once. Resnik and Ari head to Susan's house to kill her husband Brian, but Robert helps him escape. Dave and Kovac break into Robert's apartment, where Miles is painting the walls. Monitoring the apartment via webcams, Robert directs Miles to hide in a secret safe room and makes a call to Dave to lure him away. When Miles emerges from hiding, he is captured and taken as leverage by Dave and Kovac as he leaves the apartment while they are still waiting outside.
Dave deduces that Robert has gone to his evacuated stormy seaside hometown (ostensibly, Brant Rock, Massachusetts). Once there, Kovac, Ari, and Resnik start searching the town in hurricane winds while Dave positions himself on top of the watchtower. Robert stealthily subdues Dave's teammates one by one. He impales Kovac with a harpoon fired from a speargun and beats Ari to a pulp with knives beforehand. Then, Robert leads Resnik to a trap in a bakery, triggering a flour explosion that dispatches Resnik ignited by his own stun grenade. Now by himself, Dave reveals that he has Miles tied up and gagged in the trunk of his car and fires several taunting shots in an attempt to lure out Robert, only for Robert to foil his last shot aimed to Miles by shooting the car's tires. Dave, having been knocked down by the wind as it grows stronger, yells at Robert about failing to save Susan and attempting to save Miles and asks if it was in his playbook, but Robert shows himself after being ordered to and confronts Dave atop the tower. After a fight, Robert stabs Dave with his own knife on the abdomen in a similar fashion to Susan's fate, slashes the back of Dave's neck, and tramples his body to the sea. Robert then rescues Miles and the two retreat into his home to bind their wounds and wait for the hurricane to be over.
Back in Boston, Susan's information about Sam's painting helps Robert reunite Sam with his long-lost sister. Miles finishes painting the mural on the apartment complex's brick wall, returns to school, and focuses on his art. Robert's neighbor, Fatima, notices Miles' new mural and studies it with a smile. Having moved back into his old house, Robert looks out towards the calm sea.
Cast[]
- Denzel Washington as Robert McCall
- Pedro Pascal as Dave York
- Ashton Sanders as Miles Whittaker
- Bill Pullman as Brian Plummer
- Melissa Leo as Susan Plummer
- Sakina Jaffrey as Fatima
- Jonathan Scarfe as Resnik
- Kazy Tauginas as Ari
- Garrett Golden as Kovac
- Orson Bean as Sam Rubinstein
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