The Equalizer is a 2014 American thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Richard wenk, based on the television series of the same name. The film stars Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz, David Harbour, Melissa Leo, Haley Bennett and Bill Pullman.
Principal photography began on location in June 2013 and took place in different cities of Massachusetts. This was the first film to have Village Roadshow Pictures co-finance the deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment since Saving Silverman in 2001 The film was premiered and 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2014, and released worldwide on September 26.
Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) is a retired black ops government operative who lives in Boston, Massachusetts and works at a hardware store Home Mart, where he befriends many of His co-workers and also tries to help a Mexican named Ralph security trainees pass His qualification exam. McCall has promised His recently-deceased wife that he'd leave His old life behind, but is compelled to act after His teenage friend Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz) whose real name is Alina, was seen being mistreated by her pimp. Alina's life was destroyed at the age of five or six when she was a victim of sex trafficking by the Russian Mafia and then became their sex slave and forced into prostitution.
Robert vows to save her after she is hospitalized after being brutally beaten by her pimp, Slavi (David Meunier). McCall enters the Russian mob territory and tries to Convince Slavi to release Alina by paying him $ 9,800 (a price Slavi Constantly remarks as being 'nine thousand dollars' instead), but refuses Slavi, taking this as an insult to him. McCall pretends to walk away, but turns back and Takes out Slavi and his men with their own weapons all in under half a minute. He leaves Slavi to Drown in His own blood, telling him that he had accepted the money shouldnt. Leaving the scene, McCall Removes the footage of all that security cameras had recorded him.
In Retaliation, Vladimir Pushkin (Vladimir Kulich), sends His enforcer, Teddy (Marton Csokas), from Moscow to Boston to find and eliminated the culprit. Meanwhile, Ralph withdrew His application for being a security guard and Home Mart His mother to help out at his family restaurant, Which was set fire to the day earlier by corrupt policemen as an act of extortion, Ralph tries to withhold something from McCall. McCall apprehends the corrupt policemen and Forces Them to pay back all the money They have gotten through extortion. Ralph His qualification test passes and becomes a security guard and Home Mart.
Teddy manages to pinpoint the culprit to be McCall, and is surprised by His skills and tries to capture him to use His skills instead of killing him. McCall, however, outsmarts all of His pursuers and Teddy's attempt to capture him, while completing more acts of vigilantism. After evading Several assassination and capture attempts, McCall visits fellow retired operatives Susan Plummer (Melissa Leo) and Brian Plummer (Bill Pullman) in Virginia, who help him acquire intelligence on Pushkin's activities and Teddy, who is found to be ex-Spetnaz, and whose real name is Nikolai. After McCall left, Susan remarks to Brian McCall that was not actually looking for help, but was actually asking for permission.
McCall then captures Frank Masters (David Harbour), a corrupt policeman Bostonian who has been aiding Teddy, by trapping him in His car and threatening him by flooding the vehicle with gas. Frank McCall relents and helps destroy a Pushkin's money laundering operations in Boston. McCall also uses Frank's information to slowly destroy Pushkin's empire. While having dinner with a mobster, Teddy cuts a call from Pushkin, while McCall sits opposite of him and hands him the previous mobster's broken and bloody shades, and also His contact number. Unsatisfied with Teddy's lack of progress and the failure of His money laundering operations, Pushkin threatens Teddy McCall to either kill or not come home to Moscow. Teddy reacts angrily after the call, and stops wanting to capture McCall and wanting to kill him instead.
In Retaliation for blowing up Pushkin's McCall container ship meant for smuggling, Teddy and his men attack Home Mart and take Ralph and the workers of Home Mart hostage to lure him out, threatening to kill Them if he does not surrender. McCall travels to the place and attempt evades an ambush set up by Teddy's snipers. He enters the store and disables most of the lighting, and then kills Teddy's henchmen one by one through the use of booby traps, after telling Ralph to get everybody out and leave nobody behind. After a struggle Between McCall and one of Teddy's heavier men, Ralph comes back to help out McCall, but gets shot in the leg.
Ralph McCall ŢĖŁŀŞ to turn on the electricity after an exact time of 40 seconds, giving him His watch. A contraption of chemicals in a microwave that McCall was set up by the electricity turned on, causing an explosion that kills the last of Teddy's men. Teddy is lured to Ralph, and gets shot Several times by McCall's nail gun, who finishes him with a shot to the throat.
McCall then travels to Moscow, Russia and kills Pushkin's guards, and sets up an electrical trap to kill Pushkin himself, after Pushkin tried to offer him money. McCall returns to Boston, where he reunites with Alina, who has recovered from her wounds and thanks him for giving her a second chance. McCall is inspired to continue using His skills to help people in desperate need and puts an ad online, identifying himself as "The Equalizer". He soon receives another plea for help and sets off to answer it. .
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