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Antoine Fuqua’s action thriller “The Equalizer” (2014), starring Denzel Washington, is based on the TV series of the same name. Aired on CBS between 1985 and 1989, the 88-episode series focuses on the life and deeds of former covert operations officer Robert McCall. Haunted by his past, Mr. McCall operates outside the law when the institutions fail to protect vulnerable people. Antoine Fuqua brilliantly uses the enduring appeal of the vigilante hero, further bolstered by the powerful screen presence of Denzel Washington. “The Equalizer” was Antoine Fuqua’s second collaboration with Denzel Washington after the actor’s Oscar-winning performance in “Training Day” (2001) as the dirty cop Alonzo Harris.

The actor and director went on to collaborate on the two “Equalizer” sequels and a remake of “The Magnificent Seven” (2016). Denzel Washington’s masterful performance in “The Equalizer” (2014) is a blend of restraint and intensity. Washington’s physicality and nuanced gestures make Robert McCall...

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The Equalizer 3 is the final installment of the trilogy and takes place in Sicily, where Robert McCall goes on a vigilante mission to protect his friends from the Italian criminal organization, the Camorra. The movie features new characters, including Emma Collins, Gio Bonucci, Frank Conroy, Chiara Bonucci, and Vincent Quaranta, as Robert's storyline moves to Italy. Major characters from the previous movies, such as Teri, Brian Plummer, and Ralphie, do not return for The Equalizer 3, as their storylines were complete and did not fit with the new location and focus of the movie.

While The Equalizer 3 sees Denzel Washington return as Robert McCall, multiple major characters sat out the sequel. Robert McCall is once again on a vigilante mission, now in Sicily, to protect his friends from the Camorra, the Italian criminal organization. The Equalizer 3 was released in theaters and set a box office record for...

The Italy-set story of The Equalizer 3 did not call for familiar faces to resurface, according to director Antoine Fuqua.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter discussing Denzel Washington's final outing as Robert McCall, Fuqua was asked if some past friends and colleagues from the series, including the ones played by actors Chloe Grace Moretz and Johnny Skourtis, would make appearances. As it turns out, The Equalizer movie franchise was all about each story standing on its own. "No, it was always going to be separate storylines altogether," Fuqua replied.

Related: Antoine Fuqua Says the Equalizer TV Series Didn't Convince Sony to Green Light Equalizer 3

Based on the original CBS television series starring Hot Fuzz's Edward Woodward from 1985 to 1989, The Equalizer was always about one man helping everyday people "even the odds" whenever trouble came their way. Much like the series' standalone episodes, each Equalizer movie had...

The Equalizer 3 director Antoine Fuqua recently weighed in on whether protagonist Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) should be considered a hero, given his violent actions throughout the franchise.

Fuqua insisted that McCall ultimately belongs on the side of the angels in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. "Yeah, [McCall's] a good man," he said. "It took him a while to get there, but he is a good man... The end justifies the means. He did it for the right reasons." Fuqua is presumably alluding to the various people who benefited from McCall's brutal form of justice across the three Equalizer installments, such as Ralphie (Johnny Skourtis) and Alina/Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), although the director also made it clear that he never intended to include these characters in the trilogy's final chapter.

Related: The Equalizer 3's Bloody Ending, Explained

Fuqua unpacked the methodology behind McCall's one-man war on crime in a previous interview,...

The Equalizer 3 takes Robert McCall to Italy, where he protects his new Italian family and friends from the Sicilian Mafia. The new film's storyline is separate from the previous films and does not include any of the franchise's other characters. The Equalizer 3 has received positive reviews and is on track to become the highest-grossing installment in the series.

Warning: The following contains minor spoilers for The Equalizer 3.

Robert McCall ends his journey in a very different place than he started it in 2014. The third and possibly final installment of director Antoine Fuqua’s Equalizer series is now in theaters. Denzel Washington’s character finds himself loving life in Italy after the violent opening sequence of The Equalizer 3 leads to him staying overseas. This time around, McCall is protecting his new, Italian family and friends from the evils of the Sicilian Mafia, and there was never a...

The Equalizer 3 did not bring back original characters because it was always intended to have separate storylines. The focus of The Equalizer 2 was on the Dia and dangerous assassins, making it difficult to bring back characters, such as Ralphie and Alina. The addition of new characters, particularly Emma Collins-Plummer, created excitement and still maintained a connection to Robert's past associates.

Director Antoine Fuqua explains why The Equalizer 3 didn’t bring back two original movie characters. The trilogy began in 2014 when former Dia officer Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) came out of retirement to handle the Russian mafia who had trafficked a teenager. In the seemingly final installment, Robert discovers his new friends are being threatened by the Italian mafia and decides to take the criminal organization on by himself. The Equalizer 3 also stars Dakota Fanning, Eugenio Mastrandrea, David Denman, and Remo Girone.

The Equalizer movies have featured a range of supporting characters,...

Chicago – You could call “The Equalizer” a bit of an underachiever. It re-teams Oscar winner Denzel Washington with his “Training Day” director Antoine Fuqua for a movie remake of a 1980’s TV show with a cult following, but the film as a whole adds up to less than the sum of its parts.

Rating: 2.0/5.0

Washington stars as an ex-cia agent now living the quiet life by day working in a Home Depot-like store. In contrast, by night he often uses his particular set of skills to help underdogs in need. He gets to be a good guy, while being the baddest badass on the planet. The Equalizer is the kind of guy who could literally mop the floor with half the cast of “The Expendables.”

Yet he certainly takes his time getting going. For the first 25 minutes or so we see him as a combination father figure and life coach – offering helpful advice,...

The fact The Equalizer is an adaptation of a 1980s television series is meaningless to me. My only familiarity with the show is watching Rob Reiner in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, piss and moan after a phone call causes him to miss a portion of an episode. That said, it seems a working knowledge of the show would be of little use, that is unless there was more to the series than themes ridiculously ripped from classic literature and a trail of dead bodies left in the wake of a one man wrecking crew as he doles out his own brand of justice in a film that's not exactly good, not exactly bad, a little too long and violently fun. How's that for a mixed bag of descriptorsc What's best about The Equalizer is the fact Denzel Washington still makes movies like this. Denzel is a...

The Equalizer comes to the big screen with Denzel Washington in the lead. Here's Ryan's review of a bruising action thriller...

Readers of a certain vintage might remember The Equalizer, the 80s television series starring Edward Woodward, but it’s unlikely they’ll remember it being quite as action-packed and brutal as Antoine Fuqua’s full-blooded film adaptation.

Denzel Washington replaces Woodward as Robert McCall, a Diy store worker with a chequered past. Living alone in his modest Boston apartment, McCall barely sleeps and spends the greater proportion of his nights at a 24-hour diner, reading classic literature, arranging the condiments in neat rows and quietly brooding away the hours before dawn.

One of the diner’s few other patrons is Elena, a young prostitute played by Chloe Grace Moretz. When she’s viciously beaten up by her Russian pimp, Slavi (David Meunier), McCall leaps to her defence, using a...

Cool and slick -- no, no, let's make that uber-cool and uber-slick -- while also being uber-warm -- yet wistful, kind to strangers and hostile to unrepentant criminals who ignore "stop that, please," Robert McCall is a superhero for the post-post-post-modern world. He is polite and cheerful at his place of employment, a big-box retail establishment that stocks every imaginable item for the home and garden. He lives modestly in a small apartment, which he keeps clean and tidy. He does not, apparently, own a motor vehicle, preferring to walk and/or ride the bus to and from his modest neighborhood in Boston. He is happy to serve as a kind yet firm mentor for his younger, full-figured co-worker Ralphie (Johnny Skourtis), who wants to become...

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