One teen, Miles (Ashton Sanders), is an art student who’s been cutting class.

When he’s not hunting down the assassins, McCall is also a neighborhood Mary Poppins who teaches local kids moral and behavioral lessons. But this whole shoddy film, for all its skirmishes, is strangely clerical. That’s it? Action thriller villains should, ideally, have better motivations than DMV attendants. Why did they kill her? “Her name was on a sheet of paper,” a thug says. The main plot, if you can call it that, is McCall taking revenge on a group of thugs who killed his pal. Wish he would have helped me find some coherency in his movie! In another, he tries to help a Holocaust survivor find his long-lost sister. In one scene, he kicks the asses of a group of businessmen who’ve just raped a woman. (Rideshare apps playing major roles in films is a tiresome trend.) He does it mostly, it seems, to patrol the city for miscreants. It’s your average vigilante justice setup, just without excitement or thrills. Now, he channels his bloodlust into righting wrongs in his Boston community, and around the globe. But he left that life and turned into a teddy bear. Washington plays Robert McCall, a former CIA black-ops agent who used to off people on command - no questions asked.

Returning alongside the Oscar winner are our old friends plot holes, trite dialogue and horse-and-buggy pacing.

“The Equalizer” should be locked in a room with “The Terminator.” Then this lousy series would finally be killed off.ĭenzel Washington is back in the sequel to his 2014 action film, which was based on the popular ’80s TV show. Rated R (for violence, language, and drugs).

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