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ex-CIA black operative Robert McCall lived life in relative peace, enjoying a quiet life as a friendly and helpful home department store employee. But after Russian mob pimps brutalize a prostitute he befriends, he begins a quest of retribution to help the helpless and prey on those who prey on others. He becomes The Equalizer.
McCall is practically omnicompetent, partially due to a near-OCD level of attentiveness and calculation. His feats throughout the film include:
CQB: McCall is practically unstoppable in H2H/melee combat, due to a preternatural ability to instantly (represented as slo mo) see the variables in a situation that will provide a tactical advantage, namely zeroing in on objects that will help him most effectively overcome his opponents. His reflexes are lightning fast, snatching guns out of people's hands and killing roomfuls of people (armed with guns and knives) in 28 seconds. In pure H2H, he is extremely quick and rather strong, easily breaking bones and necks. He never uses a firearm in the film (except for one time when he turns an opponent's gun on another). He frequently disarms his opponents nigh-instantly a la Bourne.
He only struggles once during the film, and that is a climatic knife/melee fight with a giant opponent with superhuman durability who tanks multiple stab wounds with no effect. Robert overcomes and kills him despite the fact that moments earlier he had been hit by an assault rifle (and cauterized the wound using an improvised burning doorknob), showing he has amazing durability.
Electronics/Surveillance/Mechanical Engineering: Predicting that Russian hitmen are going to ambush him in his home in retaliation for killing multiple Russian drug lords in CQB, he relocates himself elsewhere while dismantling several objects in his home, placing cameras in them, and survielling the hitmen as the search his apartment.
Stealth/Evasion: When a hitman and his squad attempt to ambush him in a diner, he kills him, cuts the power to hide himself from the others, and stealthily sneaks away, and although he is hit by an assault rifle as they attempt to follow him, he still manages to attack one, and steal their phone for info, and escape. He sneaks up on/ambushes several opponents throughout the film, constantly lures enemies into traps, and at a few points offscreen teleports away like a slasher villain.
Strategic/Tactical Analysis: McCall takes down the entire Boston operation of Pushkin (the film's Big Bad, a Russian oligarch/international crime lord). He attacks the head corrupt cop of the city and predicts that the cop has critical information on Pushkin's operations in case he needed protection. He uses that information to raid a meat packing/money laundering factory, snatching the gun out of the hand of the leader and threatening to blow his pelvis off unless the other surrender, tying them all up, and stacking and counting to the exact amount the roomful of giant piles of hundreds of millions of dollars for the police to find, as well as emailing them all of the illegal transactions of the Boston operation
Interrogation/Coercion: Along with the aforementioned threatening of the meat packing plant gangster, he also interrogates the corrupt cop by trapping him in his car and using a hose to pump the exhaust fumes directly into it, threatening to suffocate him unless he cooperates.
Observation: McCall is extremely observant, which goes along with his OCD-level attentiveness. He is able to instantly tell a power station worker is a Russian hitman by deducing that his hands aren't rugged enough. He instantly remembers license plates and other relevant details.
Explosives: McCall also uses the info to attack Pushkin's main oil refinery in Boston, blowing up the entire tanker and refinery. This leads to a badass durability feat where he nonchalantly walks away in slow mo from a massive explosion, even though the entire refinery is exploding not even inches behind him.
Guerilla Warfare/Tactical Improvisation: When a Russian mercenary squad hold his co workers/friends hostage at the home department store where he works to draw him out, he covertly sneaks in, draws the bad guy to his location by playing "Midnight Train To Georgia" over the loud-speaker, snaps his neck, and goes on a Rambo-esque killing spree of the mercenaries. He implements such traps as:
a)pours sand on the ground so when a merc steps in, he will get killed by a barbed wire noose with a sandbag as the weight
b) stealthily sneaks behind a merc and drills a hole in the back on a guy's head
c) puts multiple explosive aerosol cans in a microwave as a trap, killing a merc in a massive explosion
amongst multiple other Rambo/MacGuyver-esque improvised traps
Aim: While as stated he never uses a gun in the film, he kills the main villain (Pushkin's henchman) by repeatedly and slowly hitting him with a nail gun in multiple precise spots.
Assassination: McCall goes to Moscow, stealthily infiltrates Pushkin's mansion and kills his guards without making a sound, and ambushes Pushkin in the shower after shutting the power off. After Pushkin begs for his life, McCall disappears. As Pushkin goes over to the sink to get his radio and signal for help, he hears the faucet running and the water overflowing from the sink. The power then turns back on, showing McCall placed a wire in the overflowing water on the floor (which Pushkin is standing in), electrocuting him to death.
McCall is undoubtedly one of the deadliest action heroes of the contemporary age, arguably second only to Bourne. With a sequel already announced, McCall has definitely supplanted himself among the top tier of action heroes.
ex-CIA black operative Robert McCall lived life in relative peace, enjoying a quiet life as a friendly and helpful home department store employee. But after Russian mob pimps brutalize a prostitute he befriends, he begins a quest of retribution to help the helpless and prey on those who prey on others. He becomes The Equalizer.
McCall is practically omnicompetent, partially due to a near-OCD level of attentiveness and calculation. His feats throughout the film include:
CQB: McCall is practically unstoppable in H2H/melee combat, due to a preternatural ability to instantly (represented as slo mo) see the variables in a situation that will provide a tactical advantage, namely zeroing in on objects that will help him most effectively overcome his opponents. His reflexes are lightning fast, snatching guns out of people's hands and killing roomfuls of people (armed with guns and knives) in 28 seconds. In pure H2H, he is extremely quick and rather strong, easily breaking bones and necks. He never uses a firearm in the film (except for one time when he turns an opponent's gun on another). He frequently disarms his opponents nigh-instantly a la Bourne.
He only struggles once during the film, and that is a climatic knife/melee fight with a giant opponent with superhuman durability who tanks multiple stab wounds with no effect. Robert overcomes and kills him despite the fact that moments earlier he had been hit by an assault rifle (and cauterized the wound using an improvised burning doorknob), showing he has amazing durability.
Electronics/Surveillance/Mechanical Engineering: Predicting that Russian hitmen are going to ambush him in his home in retaliation for killing multiple Russian drug lords in CQB, he relocates himself elsewhere while dismantling several objects in his home, placing cameras in them, and survielling the hitmen as the search his apartment.
Stealth/Evasion: When a hitman and his squad attempt to ambush him in a diner, he kills him, cuts the power to hide himself from the others, and stealthily sneaks away, and although he is hit by an assault rifle as they attempt to follow him, he still manages to attack one, and steal their phone for info, and escape. He sneaks up on/ambushes several opponents throughout the film, constantly lures enemies into traps, and at a few points offscreen teleports away like a slasher villain.
Strategic/Tactical Analysis: McCall takes down the entire Boston operation of Pushkin (the film's Big Bad, a Russian oligarch/international crime lord). He attacks the head corrupt cop of the city and predicts that the cop has critical information on Pushkin's operations in case he needed protection. He uses that information to raid a meat packing/money laundering factory, snatching the gun out of the hand of the leader and threatening to blow his pelvis off unless the other surrender, tying them all up, and stacking and counting to the exact amount the roomful of giant piles of hundreds of millions of dollars for the police to find, as well as emailing them all of the illegal transactions of the Boston operation
Interrogation/Coercion: Along with the aforementioned threatening of the meat packing plant gangster, he also interrogates the corrupt cop by trapping him in his car and using a hose to pump the exhaust fumes directly into it, threatening to suffocate him unless he cooperates.
Observation: McCall is extremely observant, which goes along with his OCD-level attentiveness. He is able to instantly tell a power station worker is a Russian hitman by deducing that his hands aren't rugged enough. He instantly remembers license plates and other relevant details.
Explosives: McCall also uses the info to attack Pushkin's main oil refinery in Boston, blowing up the entire tanker and refinery. This leads to a badass durability feat where he nonchalantly walks away in slow mo from a massive explosion, even though the entire refinery is exploding not even inches behind him.
Guerilla Warfare/Tactical Improvisation: When a Russian mercenary squad hold his co workers/friends hostage at the home department store where he works to draw him out, he covertly sneaks in, draws the bad guy to his location by playing "Midnight Train To Georgia" over the loud-speaker, snaps his neck, and goes on a Rambo-esque killing spree of the mercenaries. He implements such traps as:
a)pours sand on the ground so when a merc steps in, he will get killed by a barbed wire noose with a sandbag as the weight
b) stealthily sneaks behind a merc and drills a hole in the back on a guy's head
c) puts multiple explosive aerosol cans in a microwave as a trap, killing a merc in a massive explosion
amongst multiple other Rambo/MacGuyver-esque improvised traps
Aim: While as stated he never uses a gun in the film, he kills the main villain (Pushkin's henchman) by repeatedly and slowly hitting him with a nail gun in multiple precise spots.
Assassination: McCall goes to Moscow, stealthily infiltrates Pushkin's mansion and kills his guards without making a sound, and ambushes Pushkin in the shower after shutting the power off. After Pushkin begs for his life, McCall disappears. As Pushkin goes over to the sink to get his radio and signal for help, he hears the faucet running and the water overflowing from the sink. The power then turns back on, showing McCall placed a wire in the overflowing water on the floor (which Pushkin is standing in), electrocuting him to death.
McCall is undoubtedly one of the deadliest action heroes of the contemporary age, arguably second only to Bourne. With a sequel already announced, McCall has definitely supplanted himself among the top tier of action heroes.