Academy Award Winner Denzel Washington reprises his role as Robert McCall in the action thriller The Equalizer 2. The Columbia Pictures sequel The Equalizer 2, arrives in theaters July 20.
Robert McCall, a former CIA operative just trying to live out his life in peace. This time he is a Lyft driver who encounters a young woman who was intoxicated and this leads to some dark criminal activity. McCall can’t sit still when he sees good people being taking advantage of. Even more so when the one being hurt is someone he cares deeply about. In The Equalizer 2 it is his college friend Susan, played by Melissa Leo.
Seeking revenge, he steps in to seek his own kind of justice against criminals inflicting harm against those who cannot defend themselves.
The Equalizer 2 was directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Richard Wenk . The film, unrated to date, also stars Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, with Bill Pullman and Melissa Leo.