The Equalizer (film)

The Equalizer is a 2014 American action neonoir vigilante crime thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Richard Wenk, nominally based on the television series of the same name. It stars Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chlo Grace Moretz, David Harbour, Bill Pullman and Melissa Leo.

Robert McCall Denzel Washington is a retired black ops operative who quietly lives in Boston, Massachusetts, works at a Home Mart hardware store, where he befriends many of his coworkers, and helps a security guard trainee named Ralphie pass his qualification exam. McCall promised his recently deceased wife that he would leave his old life behind. Unable to sleep, McCall spends some late nights reading in a 247 diner, where he befriends Alina Chlo Grace Moretz, a teenaged prostitute for the Russian Mafia, who is regaled by Robert with his philosophical interpretations of the books he reads. One night she is hospitalized when brutally beaten by her pimp, Slavi David Meunier. McCall enters a restaurant owned by the Russian mob and offers to buy Alinas freedom from Slavi for 9,800, but Slavi refuses, dismissing McCall as old and impotent. Failing in this approach, McCall considers the room, estimating it would take himseconds to clear the room. He subsequently kills Slavi and four of his men with skillful close combat efficiency. To slight dismay, McCall realizes that it took himseconds to accomplish his task and quietly lectures the dying Slavi that his death could have been avoided had he taken the money.Russian Mafia boss Vladimir Pushkin Vladimir Kulich sends his enforcer Teddy Rensen Marton Csokas to Boston to find and eliminate the culprit. Meanwhile, Ralph withdraws his application for being a security guard at Home Mart to help out his mother at his family restaurant, which was set on fire by corrupt policemen as an act of extortion. McCall confronts the corrupt policemen and beats them. He forces them to pay back all the money they have extorted, threatening to publicize their crimes with video that he shot of them accepting protection money from Ralphs mother. Ralphie returns to Home Mart, and passes his test, becoming a security guard at the store. ........

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