Ruislip & Eastcote & Northwood Gazette
THE EQUALIZER 2 (15)
★★★★★
BLOOD-SPATTERED sequel. Retired Marine Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) patrols the streets of Boston as an on-demand taxi driver. He also acts as mentor to a gifted artist called Miles (Ashton Sanders), who needs to distance himself from a circle of friends comprising drug dealers and gun-toting gang members. McCall receives devastating news about one of the few people to know his location: former CIA associate Susan Plummer (Melissa Leo) and is called back into the orbit of his ex-partner (Pedro Pascal). Bullets fly as McCall shields Susan’s husband Brian (Bill Pullman) from an assassin (Jonathan Scarfe).
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