Co-starring Ashton Sanders (the teenage Chiron in Moonlight), Pedro Pascal, Melissa Leo, and Bill Pullman (who I'm pegging as the villain since I didn't see him in the trailer), The Equalizer 2 opens July 20. The trailer opens with retired CIA black ops operative Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) now working as a Lyft driver driving a. Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, but how far will he go when that is someone he loves THE EQUALIZER 2 Trailer. 1:17 The Equalizer 2: The Ultimate Mentor (Trailer). If anything, The Equalizer 2 looks like a big-budget variation on that impressive Lynne Ramsay-directed vigilante tale. The second trailer for The Equalizer 2 debuted on Sunday (June 24). Stream The Equalizer 2, watch trailers, see the cast, and more at TV Guide. Maybe you can throw in Joaquin Phoenix's You Were Never Really Here protagonist just for kicks. I'm still waiting on that super grim and ponderous Denzel Washington/Liam Neeson team-up flick. At least it'll stand out by virtue of its R-rating. Oh, and The Equalizer 2 will be surrounded on all sides, squaring off against Dwayne Johnson's Skyscraper, Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible Fallout and Mark Wahlberg's Mile 22. The original flick earned $192m worldwide on a $50m budget, so even if this one takes a drop, it should still be okay presuming the budget hasn't massively increased.

We can debate the conventional wisdom behind that, but we should note that The Magnificent Seven made less overseas than The Equalizer despite an ensemble cast and a PG-13 rating.

The Equalizer topped $100 million domestic in September of 2014, making it one of his biggest 'all by myself' hits for an actor that is often strategically paired with a young white dude (Chris Pine, Chris Pratt, Ryan Reynolds, Mark Wahlberg) to theoretically maximize overseas interest. Release Date: 26 September 2014 (United States)In The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him.

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