Denzel Washington’s Robert McCall comes out of retirement from his lowkey life in a picturesque Italian coastal town to level the score with the mighty Italian mafia in the trailer of The Equalizer 3, released by Sony Pictures Entertainment on Tuesday late night.
Promising that the latest in The Equalizer franchise will be the last chapter of McCall’s saga, the action-packed trailer starts with a bunch of henchmen going into a small villa in an Italian coastal town. They find dead bodies scattered all around the place and meet McCall (Denzel Washington), who gives only nine seconds even held at gunpoint.
The trailer also shows McCall living a peaceful retired time in Italy and making friends with a local family. However, when the mafia starts to harass that family, McCall comes out of retirement and displays his combat skills to equalise the aggression of the mafia.
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There are also some tender moments in the video — McCalls is shown to be accepted in the community, setting up the perfect premise of the upcoming carnage.
“Vengeance meets his equal. Denzel Washington is back as Robert McCall in the final chapter of The Equalizer. #TheEqualizer3, exclusively in movie theaters this Fall,” posted Sony Pictures alongside the newly released trailer on Twitter.
Washington has been playing McCall for nearly a decade now, with the first The Equalizer movie, inspired from a 1980s TV series, hitting theatres way back in 2014. The third instalment of the franchise will arrive in cinemas on September 1.
Helmed by Antoine Fuqua, who has also directed the first two instalments of The Equalizer franchise, The Equalizer 3 also features Dakota Fanning, David Denman, Sonia Ammar and Remo Girone in key roles.
