THE EQUALIZER 2 DRIVER
When he isn’t destroying the unrighteous, McCall works as a Lyft driver in urban Boston, his backseat a kind of jukebox of life, from a woman ecstatic about her college admission status, to a babbling alcoholic trying to keep himself away from bars, to a young man in uniform on the eve of his first deployment to Iraq. But such excess, especially in the name of morality, can be wearisome.
The Equalizer 2 is a fun night at the movies for those whose idea of fun is a wallow in a spectacle of broken fingers, gouged eyeballs, paralyzing neck snaps, near decapitations, and disembowelments. This is a hero’s journey disguised as a slasher flick, with the viewer tip-toeing alongside Robert’s victims through one booby trap after another. The scene passes by in an imprudent flurry of knife slashes, as if Fuqua were daring us to laugh at the audaciousness of the film’s sadism. In The Equalizer 2, there’s an instance when the former black-ops specialist almost appears to be making sushi of his opponent.
The villains in Antoine Fuqua’s The Equalizer series are often faceless-that is, until the camera registers their confusion and fear right before they’re snuffed out with dazzling proficiency by Robert McCall (Denzel Washington).
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