Q&A USA

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.

감독: Antoine Fuqua

주연: Denzel Washington/Marton Csokas/Chloë Grace Moretz/David Harbour/Bill Pullman/Melissa Leo

로버트 맥콜 (Robert McCall)은 은퇴 한 해양 및 국방 정보원 요원으로, 최근에 사망 한 아내에게 한 약속을 지키며, 보스턴에서 조용히 생활하고 홈 마트 하드웨어 매장에서 일하며 조용히 생활을 하고 있었다.

새벽 2시만 되면 늘 잠에서 깨는 로버트 맥콜(덴젤 워싱턴). 불면증으로 이 시간이 되면 맥콜은 늘 책 한 권을 들고 다이너(미국24시간 식당)로 향한다. 가족도 친구도 없는 그는 아내가 남기고 간 ‘죽기 전에 읽어야 할 소설 100권’을 모두 읽는 것이 유일한 삶의 목표인것다.

어느 날, 어린 콜걸 테리(클로이 모레츠)가 맥콜에게 말을 건네는데..몇번의 다이너에서 주고받은 대화들은 동질감과 마음적인 의지를 느끼고 희망을 갖는 마음을 키워주기도 한다.

그러던 어느 날, 테리가 포주인 러시아 마피아에게 무자비하게 폭행을 당한 채로 병원에 입원을 하게된다. 분노가 폭발하고만 맥콜은 스스로 악한 세상을 향한 정의로운 폭력이 시작되는 story.

Robert McCall is a retired Marine and Defense Intelligence Agency operative who, after promising his recently deceased wife that he would leave his former activities behind, lives quietly in Boston and works at a Home Mart hardware store. McCall befriends many of his co-workers and helps a security guard trainee named Ralph pass his qualification exam. Unable to sleep, McCall spends some late nights reading in a 24/7 diner where he befriends Alina, a teenage prostitute for the Russian Mafia.

One night, Alina is hospitalized following a brutal beating by her pimp, Slavi. Hearing of the beating, McCall visits Alina's hospital room and speaks with her friend, Mandy. McCall tracks down Slavi at his office and offers to buy Alina's freedom. Slavi refuses, dismissing McCall as old and impotent. McCall then kills Slavi and four of his men with skillful close combat efficiency by using the men's own weapons, various objects in the office, and his bare hands.

Following the killings, Russian Mafia boss Vladimir Pushkin sends his enforcer, Teddy Rensen, to find and eliminate the culprit. In the meantime, Ralph withdraws his security guard application, going to work for his mother at the family restaurant. When McCall learns the restaurant was set on fire by corrupt policemen as an act of extortion, he confronts and beats the officers, forces them to pay back all the money they have extorted, and threatens to publicize their crimes. Ralph then returns to Home Mart and passes his test, becoming a security guard at the store.

In investigating the murders of Pushkin's henchmen, Rensen questions Alina's friend Mandy, who tells him that "a nice man--a black man" had come to visit Alina in the hospital. Mandy is then murdered by Rensen.

There is an armed robbery at the Home Mart in which a coworker's ring is stolen. After the ring is mysteriously returned, McCall is seen polishing a sledgehammer and putting it back in the store.

After finding video footage of McCall entering the building where the killings of Slavi and the other gangsters occurred, Rensen visits McCall at his apartment and later makes two attempts to capture him. However, McCall escapes after killing one of Rensen's men and knocking out another.

McCall then visits old friend and fellow former DIA operative Susan Plummer, who uses her resources to give him information on Pushkin and his operations. Plummer informs McCall that Teddy Rensen's true name is Nicolai Itchenko and that he is a former member of the Russian secret police and Spetsnaz. Plummer also gives McCall "permission" to break the promise to retire that he made to his late wife.

Stepping up his actions against Pushkin, McCall subdues and forces Frank Masters — a corrupt policeman working for Pushkin— to help destroy one of Pushkin's local money-laundering operations. From Masters, McCall obtains a memory stick loaded with information about Pushkin's illegal activities (including bribes of Congressmen and Senators), which he emails to the FBI. McCall then confronts Itchenko at a restaurant, revealing that he knows his history and pledging to bring down Pushkin's criminal enterprise. When McCall destroys a container ship Pushkin used to smuggle goods, Pushkin orders Itchenko to kill McCall.

Itchenko and his men go to Home Mart and take Ralph and several of McCall's other co-workers hostage, threatening to kill them if McCall does not surrender. McCall kills Itchenko's henchmen one by one using booby traps constructed with items in the store, but is wounded in the process. After a struggle between McCall and one of Itchenko's men, Ralph comes back to pull the injured McCall out of the store, but is shot in the leg himself. After Ralph escapes, McCall confronts Itchenko and kills him with a nail gun.

Later, McCall travels to Moscow and tricks Pushkin into electrocuting himself. On his return to the US, he is approached by Alina, who has recovered from her injuries and found a new job. She thanks him for giving her a second chance. McCall is inspired by this to continue using his skills to help people in need and posts an online advertisement, now identifying himself as "The Equalizer". He soon receives another plea and agrees to answer it.