![]() ![]() However, McCall escapes after killing a hitman who tries to ambush him at the diner and knocking out one of Rensen's associates. When Mandy tells him that "a nice man, a black man" had come to visit Alina in the hospital, he kills her to cover his tracks by strangling her to death.Īfter finding video footage of McCall entering the club where Slavi was killed, Rensen visits McCall at his apartment, posing as a police officer, and later makes two attempts to capture him. Rensen visits Mandy, questioning her about who could have killed Slavi. Ralphie then returns to the store and passes his test, becoming a security guard at the store. When McCall learns that the restaurant was set on fire by corrupt policemen, Detectives Harris (Robert Wahlberg) and Gilly (Timothy John Smith), as an act of extortion, he confronts and beats the officers, forcing them to pay back all the money they have extorted by threatening to publicize their crimes from a video recording McCall made on his phone. In the meantime, Ralphie withdraws his security guard application, and instead takes a second job with his mother at their family restaurant. Vladimir Pushkin (Vladimir Kulich), Slavi's boss and a powerful Russian mafia kingpin, sends his enforcer, Teddy Rensen (Marton Csokas), to find and eliminate the culprit. McCall then kills Slavi and four of his men with skillful close combat efficiency, using the men's own weapons, various objects in the restaurant, and his bare hands. Slavi refuses, dismissing McCall as old and impotent. McCall visits Slavi and offers to pay $9,800 for Alina's freedom. Hearing of the beating, McCall visits Alina's hospital room and speaks with her friend, Mandy (Haley Bennett). One night, Alina is hospitalized after being brutally beaten by her pimp, Slavi (David Meunier). Unable to sleep, McCall spends some late nights reading in a 24/7 diner where he befriends Alina (Chloë Grace Moretz), a teenage prostitute working for the Russian mafia. Plot Editįor the last few decades, Robert McCall has lived a quiet life in Boston working at a Home Mart hardware store, where he befriends many of his co-workers and helps one named Ralphie (Johnny Skourtis) pass his qualification exam to become a security guard. Nonetheless, it became a commercial success with a worldwide gross of over $192 million on a production budget of $55–73 million.Ī sequel was released on July 20, 2018, with Washington, Wenk and Fuqua returning. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the visual style, direction, acting, soundtrack, and action sequences but criticized its violence and plot. The Equalizer had its world premiere at 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2014, and was released worldwide on Septemin conventional and IMAX theaters. ![]()
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