Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) is back and inflicting justice to those who deserve it. This time, someone he is very close to is harmed and he will stop at nothing to get to them.

Antoine Fuqua and Denzel Washington return for this enjoyable sequel that is just as good as the first. This is Denzel's fist sequel in his career, and it is one I am glad he chose to do. At the beginning of the first, McCall was trying to live I a quiet life, but after seeing how he can use his skills to help those in need, he decides to carry out justice.

I was a little sad to see Chloe Grace Moretz not return, even for a small part, but I guess that would have just been unnecessary as she probably wouldn't have added anything to the plot. This time around we have Ashton Sanders as a young kid Robert mentors called Miles Whittaker. I really enjoyed his performance in Moonlight, and he was just as good here as a talented kid hanging around with the wrong crowd. The message Antoine tried to make with these two I thought was very clear and it worked really well. My favourite parts of the movie were when the two was on screen together, especially a particular scene where they have a heart to heart. I really felt that, and the chemistry was strong.

I felt the plot took quite a while to get going and it felt like the Denzel scenes were the sub plot and the other stuff going on in the background was the main plot. It took it's time before Denzel got involved in this. The actions scenes were pretty good, but the acting is the films strongest point. The plotting was a little bit of a mess and I think this is where the film lacks just a little bit from the first one. First one wasn't perfect either, but I could understand it a bit more. The set up for the final showdown was much better however in this movie and even though it was not great, it was slightly better than the firsts in the hardware store. The setting for it was incredible, I just wish there was more realness to it and felt a little to anti climatic.

Overall, I enjoyed this movie probably equal to the first one. They both had things they did better and worse than each other. I had a good time. 7/10.

"Who are you?" "Ya Father, your mum just didn't tell you about me" - Literally cried with laughter

I must be the only person who prefers this film over the first one, Denzel Washington returns as the Equalizer and just like in the first film, he kills it in this role and acts the hell out of an action film that honestly doesn't need it but trust me it makes these films so much better. But seriously I like this one more as the story is so much better and engaging to me, also the cast is better in this film with the addition of Pedro Pascal (Dave York) and Ashton Sanders (Miles Wittaker) being absolutely fantastic.

Still think this franchise would make a better TV Series as watching Denzel go through lots of different cases throughout this film is honestly perfect and keeps the film exciting and interesting. But Antoine Fuqua finds a way to pull this off much better in this film with better pacing and also he is an underrated action director because though he uses shaky-cam / quick-cut action film techniques he does affectively as it makes the action scenes a little more unique.

Give this a watch and get ready to have some fun :)

The ending showdown was very cool, something I've never seen before on screen, _Equaliser 2_ certainly has things like this that I enjoy, it's not a bad movie, but it is a little bit of a disappointment after the first one. Though I certainly liked _The Equalizer_ more, I am a fan of both movies (so I guess the whole franchise at this point) and if Denzel is up for making more of these Defender-of-the-Downtrodden, ass-kickin' super soldier Action movies with human-interest stories peppered in via the supporting characters, then I'll sure as Hell keep watching 'em.

_Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._