The Equalizer 3 Plot Summary
Robert McCall is back, older and wiser and much more brutal than ever. He is left fighting for his life after injuries sustained in an attack on a Mafia compound in Southern Italy. He is found bleeding out by a local police officer, and taken to the local doctor in the nearest village to be fixed up.
Once McCall is nursed back to full fitness by the man named Enzo, he appears to settle in Southern Italy. A threat to his newfound peace is The Mafia who brutally run the show in the area. McCall must fight against these dark forces if he is to keep hold of his tranquil new life, and save the locals from impending doom.
What are the themes of The Equalizer 3?
Robert McCall has been through a lot when we first see him in The Equalizer 3, and it’s about to get much worse before it gets better. The first two movies dealt with McCall trying to find purpose in his life by helping others. He continues to have the desire to help others in this entry in the series, witnessed by the way he protects the locals in the village.
However, this movie deals with the most important question of all – is salvation and peace still achievable after everything that’s happened to him?
Who saves McCall?
Gio Bonucci was the police officer who found Robert McCall gravely injured and slumped over in his car by the side of the road at the beginning of the movie. So when Gio is brought into the centre of the village and beaten and shot by evil mafioso, Vincent Quaranta, McCall must step in to save him.
Vincent demands that the man who killed his brother, Marco, reveal himself. McCall enters the frame and drops his guns and surrenders. He is willing to give up his life to protect Gio and the rest of the villagers. Just when he’s about to be shot, Enzo comes to his rescue, firing a shotgun as a warning to the mob to back off. The Sicilian Mafia flee with a parting warning to McCall that they will be back to finish the job.
How does McCall kill Vincent?
McCall wastes no time in making the next move, and he attacks Vincent’s compound. He murders every henchman that gets in his way, in the most brutal and shocking manner. He saves the best until last and finds Vincent, cowering in his room.
Instead of inflicting a similar death on him that his henchman experienced, McCall forces him to take his own lethal drugs. He then follows him as he leaves the compound and dies a humiliating death in public when his heart eventually stops.
How does The Equalizer 3 end?
It all comes full circle when McCall visits CIA agent, Emma, in the hospital where she lays after nearly dying in the car bombing orchestrated by the mob. He informs her why he was originally in Southern Italy, to retrieve the lost retirement funds of an elderly couple he’d never met. He then tasks her with the job of returning these funds to the couple in the US.
The movie ends with Robert McCall still in Southern Italy, and seemingly enjoying his retirement. He is seen celebrating the local soccer teams victory with the rest of the villagers as the credits roll. It seems he found his peace after all.
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