FILM
THE EQUALIZER 3
THE FILM THAT AT NO POINT WAS EVER TITLED ‘THE THREEQUALIZER’
Robert McCall (Denzel Washington), showing Sicily how it’s done.
★★★
OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 109 MINS
DIRECTOR Antoine Fuqua
CAST Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, David Denman, Sonia Ammar, Remo Girone
PLOT Ex-assassin Robert McCall (Washington) retires to Italy. But when local crime bosses start targeting his friends, he decides to intervene.
THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT Denzel Washington as a righteous avenger of wrongs that just feels pleasingly natural. It’s an archetype that he’s perfected throughout his career, and in action movies like Man On Fire, The Magnificent Seven, and the first two entries in The Equalizer franchise, he’s added complexity to heroes with flawed pasts. Paired once again with his Training Day director Antoine Fuqua, Washington finds yet more layers to unfurl with Robert McCall in this threequel, even as the film itself at times struggles to be as compelling as its protagonist.