![]() ![]() Later, McCall then travels to Moscow, confronts Pushkin, and sets a trap which electrocutes and kills him. Afterwards, McCall confronts Itchenko and kills him with a nail gun. The electricity turns it on, causing an explosion that kills the last of Itchenko's men. McCall sets up small containers of propane and oxygen in a microwave oven. McCall tells Ralph to turn on the electricity at the breaker box in exactly 40 seconds, giving him his digital watch for precision. After a struggle between McCall and one of Itchenko's men, Ralph comes back to pull the injured McCall out of the store, but is shot in the leg himself. McCall then kills Itchenko's henchmen one by one using booby traps constructed with items in the store. McCall enters the store, disables most of the lighting, and tells Ralph to get the hostages to safety. Itchenko and his men go to the Home Mart and take Ralph and several of McCall's other coworkers hostage, threatening to kill them if McCall does not surrender. When McCall destroys a container ship Pushkin used to smuggle goods, Pushkin orders Itchenko to kill McCall Pushkin adds that until the deed is done, Itchenko may not return home to Moscow. McCall confronts Itchenko at dinner, pledging to bring down Pushkin's criminal enterprise. Masters relents and helps McCall destroy one of Pushkin's local money laundering operations. After McCall leaves, Susan remarks to Brian that McCall was not actually looking for help, but was asking for permission.Īfter returning to Boston, McCall captures Frank Masters (David Harbour)-a corrupt policeman bribed by Pushkin-by trapping him in his car and flooding the vehicle with tailpipe exhaust to force him to cooperate. ![]() Brian reveals to McCall that he had a "nice funeral" the Plummers are relieved, though not surprised, that he is still alive. It is revealed that Rensen's real name is Nicolai Itchenko and that he is an ex-Spetsnaz who ran a wing of the secret police Susan describes him as "a sociopath with a business card". McCall then visits retired CIA operatives Susan (Melissa Leo) and Brian Plummer in Virginia Susan helps him acquire intelligence on Pushkin's activities. McCall repeatedly outsmarts Rensen and his pursuers and completes more acts of vigilantism. Rensen determines that McCall is the culprit in the attack on Slavi and his crew. Ralph then returns to Home Mart and passes his test, becoming a security guard at the store. McCall confronts the corrupt policemen, beats them, forces them to pay back all the money they have extorted, and threatens to publicize their crimes. In the meantime, Ralph withdraws his security guard application and instead goes to work with his mother at the family restaurant McCall learns that the restaurant was set on fire by corrupt policemen as an act of extortion. In response to the death of Slavi and his crew, Russian Mafia boss Vladimir Pushkin (Vladimir Kulich) sends his enforcer, Teddy Rensen (Marton Csokas), to Boston to find and eliminate the culprit. To slight dismay, McCall realizes that it took him 19 seconds to accomplish his task and quietly lectures the dying Slavi that his death could have been avoided if he had taken the money. He subsequently kills Slavi and four of his men with skillful close combatefficiency. Failing in this approach, McCall considers the room, estimating it would take him 16 seconds to clear it. McCall enters a restaurant owned by the Russian mob and offers to buy Alina's freedom from Slavi for $9,800, but Slavi refuses, dismissing McCall as old and impotent. One night, Alina is hospitalized following a brutal beating by her pimp, Slavi. Unable to sleep, McCall spends some late nights reading in a 24/7 diner where he befriends Alina, a teenaged prostitute for the Russian Mafia McCall regales Alina with philosophical interpretations of the book he is reading ( The Old Man and the Sea). McCall promised his recently deceased wife that he would leave his old life behind. Robert McCall is a retired CIA black ops operative who lives quietly in Boston, Massachusetts and works at a Home Mart hardware store McCall befriends many of his co-workers and helps a security guard trainee named Ralph pass his qualification exam. But when he meets a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by - he has to help her. The Equalizer is a 2014 American neo-noir vigilante action thriller film.Ī man believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and has dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. The Equalizer Official Trailer -1 (2014) HD ![]()
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