If 2023 has proven anything, it’s that giving people what they want leads to success. Barbie is the most glaring example, an expected hit that turned into a phenomenon by pleasing its target audience. Oppenheimer did much the same, making a thoughtful movie for people craving one. Now, The Equalizer 3 has arrived following trailers promising what fans of the series – and action fans in general – want to see: Denzel Washington giving a bunch of evildoers what they deserve. And it delivers… mostly.
While completing another of his Good Samaritan missions in Sicily, former Marine and intelligence agent Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) is gravely injured and, upon returning to mainland Italy, is taken in by a doctor who tends to his wounds. Recovering in the small coastal town of...