The Equalizer 2(더 이퀄라이저 II), 2018

감독: Antoine Fuqua

주연: Denzel Washington/Pedro Pascal/Ashton Sanders/Bill Pullman/Melissa Leo

Antoine Fuqua가 감독 한 2018년 미국 액션 스릴러 영화로 2014년 영화 '이퀄라이저(Equalizer)'의 속편이다. 주연 덴젤 워싱턴과 페드로 파스칼, 애쉬튼 샌더스, 멜리사 레오, 빌 풀먼이 출연한다. 퇴역한 미 해병대와 전 DIA 요원인 로버트 맥콜(Robert McCall)은 Lyft 운전사로 Massachusetts에서 평범하게 생활하며 지낸다. Lyft를 이용하는 고객들의 사연을 접하면서 직간접적으로 도움을 주며 살아간다, 그의 가장 친한 친구이자 전직 동료인 Susan Plummer이 살해 된 후 복수의 길을 걷는 story.

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 CIA colleague, Susan Plummer. McCall 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 has been 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. At some point, McCall rescues Miles, who had been lured away by a gang to commit crimes for them.

 

One day, Susan and DIA operative Dave York, McCall's former partner, 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 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 CCTV footage, McCall determines that the suspects' foreknowledge of her floor and the expertly-delivered fatal stab suggest that she was targeted. He also confirms that the incident Susan was looking into was staged to look like a murder-suicide, and that Susan's death is probably connected to it. McCall makes contact with his former partner, York, who had thought him dead for years, and informs him 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, discovering that York was on the phone's call list. He confronts York at his home, where York admits that he became a mercenary after feeling used and discarded by the government, and 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 helps him escape. York and Kovac break into McCall's apartment, where Miles is starting another paint job he had 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.

 

Per his taunts to York, McCall returns to his seaside hometown, now evacuated as a hurricane approaches. Kovac, Ari, and Resnik arrive and begin searching the town in gale-force winds, as York situates himself on the town's watchtower in a sniper's position. Kovac enters a tackle shop and is killed with a harpoon gun. When Ari heads toward the seaside, he is disturbed by pictures of Susan that he sees along the way; catching him off guard, McCall butchers him with a knife. McCall then enters his late wife's old bakery to lure in Resnik, who is eviscerated in a flour explosion set off by his own stun grenade. Enraged, York reveals that he has Miles tied up in the trunk of his car and begins shooting at it to lure McCall out, but he runs out of bullets after McCall foils his last shot. With the storm growing heavier, York is knocked down by a gust of wind before being confronted by McCall atop the tower. McCall gets the upper hand and kills York in the same manner in which Susan was killed, then tosses him onto the rocks below, where he is washed away by the ocean.

 

Back in Massachusetts, Susan's information about Sam's sister's painting helps McCall to reunite Sam with his long-lost sister. Miles finishes repainting the apartment complex, returns to school and focuses on his art. Having moved back into his old house, McCall looks out towards the calm sea.