McCall is also visited by an old friend from the first movie.
As filmmaker Fuqua has accurately said, “Violence is a comfort zone for him.”īack in Boston, though he’s usually zealous about keeping to himself, McCall takes an interest in one of the tenants in his building, a young high school student with artistic aspirations named Miles (Ashton Sanders, memorable in the Oscar-winning “Moonlight”). In addition to warrior skills that are off the charts, McCall has an ability to see a particular situation before it unfolds, a sixth sense of how things will go down. Pain that hurts and pain that alters.” Point taken. The opening sequence takes place out of the country, on a train in rural Turkey where McCall, disguised as an imam complete with luxuriant beard, teaches a miscreant a lesson after imparting a bit of personal philosophy: “There are two kinds of pain in the world. The story’s essence reveals itself gradually as the film takes time to bring those new to the character up to speed on who McCall is and what he can do. As was the case with the first film, “Equalizer 2" is in no hurry to get to the heart of the matter.