The Equalizer 3 is an American thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua. It is a sequel to The Equalizer 2 and the third and final installment of The Equalizer trilogy, which is loosely based on the television series of the same name. The film stars Denzel Washington, reprising his role as retired U.S. Marine and DIA officer Robert McCall, with Dakota Fanning, Eugenio Mastrandrea, David Denman, Gaia Scodellaro, and Remo Girone in supporting roles. In the film, McCall discovers that his new friends of a small town in South Italy are intimidated by members of the Camorra, where he sets out to free them from their control.
Discussions over a third entry to the Equalizer franchise began following its second film release on August 2, 2018. The project was officially announced on January 13, 2022. Filming began on October 10, 2022 on the Amalfi Coast in Italy and continued in the region until November 20, after which it moved to Naples in early December, before wrapping production by January 2023, in Rome. Robert Richardson serves as director of photography on the project, after previously working with Fuqua on Emancipation (2022).[1] On April 20, 2022, it was announced that the film would release on September 1, 2023.
Plot[]
At a secluded winery in Sicily, Robert McCall kills a gangster, Lorenzo Vitale, and his henchmen to obtain a key to the winery's vault and recoup money stolen in a cyber-heist. While leaving the winery, Vitale's grandson shoots Robert in the back. Robert contemplates suicide due to his injury, but decides otherwise and then takes the ferry back to the mainland. While driving on the Amalfi Coast, Robert pulls over and slips into unconsciousness from shock. Gio Bonucci, a local carabiniere, finds and rescues him.
Gio brings Robert to a remote coastal Italian town called Altamonte, where a small-town doctor, Enzo Arisio, treats him. As he recovers, Robert becomes acquainted with the locals and grows fond of the village and its people. Robert makes an anonymous phone call to CIA officer Emma Collins to tip her off about the winery's role in the illegal drug trade disguised as ordinary business transactions in Sicily. Collins and other CIA operatives arrive at the winery and find millions in cash along with bags of fenethylline tablets hidden in a storeroom, confirming Robert's suspicions.
Meanwhile, members of the Camorra harass and kill villagers in an attempt to coerce them out of their housing and take over Altamonte for commercialisation purposes. Robert overhears Marco Quaranta, a high-ranking Camorra member, pressuring local store owner Angelo for payments. To make an example of him, the Camorra firebombs Angelo's fish store as the entire town watches. Gio reviews the video of the firebombing and calls the Italian central police for an inquiry. Along with his wife and daughter, Gio is attacked by the Camorra and beaten for interfering in their operations.
Following that, Marco demands that Gio set up a boat for him. Overhearing the conversation, Robert asks Marco to move his operations to a different location. When Marco refuses, Robert kills him and his henchmen. The Naples head of police is threatened and tortured by Vincent, Marco's brother and head of the Camorra, and instructed to find the person responsible for Marco's death. Vincent has Collins's car rigged with a bomb, but she survives after Robert warns her. Vincent threatens to shoot Gio in front of the whole town, only for Robert to reveal himself. The citizens begin to record Vincent and his henchmen on their camera phones, causing Vincent and his gang to retreat and return to his home; they then prepare to retaliate the following day.
Later that night, Robert infiltrates Vincent's home, kills his bodyguards, and forces Vincent to take a lethal dose of his drugs. Through Collins, Robert returns the money he had taken from the winery to an elderly couple's pension fund. Back in Langley, Virginia, Collins receives a promotion for her contribution to ending the Altamonte drug trade. She gets a package containing a book of contacts and a note from Robert congratulating her and stating that her mother would be proud of her; thus, the note reveals Collins is the daughter of Robert's late friend and colleague, Susan Plummer. With the Quaranta brothers dead, Robert celebrates with the locals after their football team's victory.
Cast[]
- Denzel Washington as Robert McCall
- Dakota Fanning as Emma Collins
- David Denman as Frank Conroy
- Sonia Ben Ammar as Chiara Bonucci
- Remo Girone as Enzo Arisio
- Eugenio Mastrandrea as Gio Bonucci
- Andrea Scarduzio as Vincent Quaranta
- Andrea Dodero as Marco Quaranta
- Salvatore Ruocco as Salvatore
- Bruno Bilotta as Lorenzo Vitale
- Alessandro Pess as Viking
- Daniele Perrone as Angelo
- Zakaria Hamza as Khalid
- Gaia Scodellaro as Aminah
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