Words Lee Curtis

It’s been almost a decade since we first met the humble hardware store worker who turned out to be a highly-trained killer. Former CIA operative Robert McCall has since made a name for himself on his quest to atone for the sins of the secret life he wants to leave behind by using his very particular set of skills to clean the streets of Boston. But taking down street thugs, pimps, crooked cops, and Russian gangsters on his own turf is nothing compared to what he faces in his thrilling final chapter.

McCall has already proven that his justice has no borders with flying visits to Moscow and Turkey and now he expands his jurisdiction to a new, permanent home he’s found for himself in Southern Italy – a place where he hopes he can put his dark past behind him once and for all.

But just when he thinks he’s finally fulfilled the promise to his late wife, the lethal protector is called into action again.

Upon discovering the community that’s welcomed him is under the control of a brutal crime syndicate, McCall is triggered out of retirement. Only this time, he may have met his match and he’ll need all of his close combat expertise, more booby traps, and all of the fight he’s got left if he’s to equalise the battle against the mafia.

Partners For Justice

The return of Robert McCall marks the fifth collaboration between Denzel Washington and director Antoine Fuqua. As they close the book on The Equaliser, we look back at two other bringers of justice their creative partnership delivered.

Alonzo Harris, Training Day

The renegade, no-nonsense narcotics detective has a unique outlook on justice and is more of a gangster than a cop. Washington’s towering performance at the heart of Fuqua’s masterpiece earned him

Sam Chisholm, The Magnificent Seven

Serving justice by any means necessary is also the modus operandi of Washington’s bounty hunter, who leads a misfit band of hired guns to liberate a frontier town from a villainous baron in the wild reimagining of the western classic.