Dang it, now I don't have a spare hand to hold my coffee with.
The first Equalizer movie in 2014 certainly took its time jolting former covert operative Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) out of his post-faked-death inertia to become the avenging vigilante of the 1980s TV series that this franchise is based on.
The Equalizer 2 did not need to dwell on an “origin story”, so to speak, and so it could have gone off in so many interesting directions.
