History Film / TheEqualizer3

* EyeScream: In the trailer, [=McCall=], while in captivity, breaks loose and stabs a nearby mook in the eye with his own gun.

* SequelGoesForeign: As seen in the trailer, this installment moves from America to Italy.

** The movie also begins and ends with [[spoiler:[=McCall=] [[StormingTheCastle single-handedly wiping out an entire Mafia hideout, and saving the leader for last.]]]]

* CommunityThreateningConstruction: Vincent wants to build resort hotels and casinos over the town of Altamonte, which [=McCall=] had befriended, using [[TheDragon his brother Marco]] to intimidate the people who lived there

** Marco barely lasts even a minute in a fight against [=McCall=] [[spoiler:before [=McCall=] [[SlashedThroat slits his throat]].]]
** [[spoiler: [=McCall=]'s raid on Vincent's mansion, where he singlehandedly slaughters all of the henchmen with very little effort, before knocking Vincent out and overdosing him with his own drug.]]

* FinalBoss: Vincent is the final antagonist [=McCall=] faces [[spoiler:and the last person of the series he kills.]]

* MookHorrorShow: [[spoiler: [[StormingTheCastle McCall's assault on Vincent's mansion]] plays out like a home invasion or a horror/slasher film, as he makes his way through the darkened building to pick off all the {{Mooks}} one by one, and after force-feeding Vincent an overdose of his own drugs, ends the assault by [[MenacingStroll slowly]] following after him as he stumbles down the street in terror before finally dying.]]
* MythologyGag: The first thing [=McCall=] orders at the cafe is a cup of tea. He is given a different drink and told that "tea is for old women and Englishmen." In [[Series/TheEqualizer the 1980s show]] the titular role of Robert [=McCall=] was played by British actor Creator/EdwardWoodward.

* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Downplayed in most cases. The audience gets a few looks at the carnage left in McCall’s wake in the intro, and while the mooks subjected to headshots have pretty ugly wounds, they are still just a little too small. Weirdly played straight when McCall shoots the StarterVillain in the head… with a 12-gauge shotgun. From point-blank range. He gets a gruesome wound on his cheek and blood spatter on the wine barrels behind him when by all rights it should have taken his head clean off.

* CorneredRattlesnake: [=McCall=] nearly meets his end at the start of the movie at the hands of a young boy who happened to survive the Sicilian vineyard massacre and was likely traumatized by losing his entire family in a single day.

* DarkHorseVictory: The only person in the entire film trilogy to get the drop on and significantly wound [=McCall=] happens to be an unnamed young boy who happened to be the sole survivor of his opening massacre at the Sicilian vineyard.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The boy who [[spoiler:shoots [=McCall=] in the back]] and is the sole survivor of the massacre at the Sicilian vineyard is last seen running away from the scene. There is no clue whatsoever about what happened to him, and the dialogue when the vineyard is being searched by the Italian police and the CIA shows they are unaware of his existence (as he would’ve been able to give them a description of [=McCall=].

* CommunityThreateningConstruction: Vincent wants to build resort hotels and casinos over the Sicilian neighborhood [=McCall=] had befriended, using [[TheDragon his brother Marco]] to intimidate the people.

->''"You know... I believe that everything in life is about timing. Now, unfortunately for you, yours isn’t very good. Three weeks ago we wouldn't be having this conversation, but I'm here now. I'm really beginning to like this place and the people. I'm starting to believe, from the bottom of my heart, that this is where I’m supposed to be. So, whatever it is that you and your friends do, please... do it somewhere else."''

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Nine seconds. That’s what you have to decide your fate."'']]
->''"I'm really beginning to like this place and the people. I'm starting to believe, from the bottom of my heart, that this is where I'm supposed to be. So, whatever it is that you and your friends do, please... do it somewhere else."''

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Nine seconds. That's what you'll have to decide your fate."'']]

* MythologyGag: The first thing McCall orders at the cafe is a cup of tea. He is given a different drink and told that "tea is for old women and Englishmen." In [[Series/TheEqualizer the 1980s show]] the titular role of Robert McCall was played by British actor Creator/EdwardWoodward.

* MookHorrorShow: [[spoiler: [[StormingTheCastle McCall's assault on Vincent's mansion]] plays out like a home invasion or slasher film, as he makes his way through the darkened building to pick off all the {{Mooks}} one by one, and after force-feeding Vincent an overdose of his own drugs, ends the assault by [[MenacingStroll slowly]] following after him as he stumbles down the street in terror before finally dying.]]

* MookHorrorShow: [[spoiler: [=McCall's=] assault on Vincent's mansion plays out like a home invasion or slasher film, as he makes his way through the darkened building to pick off all the {{Mooks}} one by one, and after force-feeding Vincent an overdose of his own drugs, ends the assault by [[MenacingStroll slowly]] following after him as he stumbles down the street in terror before finally dying.]]

* CurbStompBattle: Marco barely lasts even a minute in a fight against [=McCall=] [[spoiler:before [=McCall=] [[SlashedThroat slits his throat]].]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler: Vincent Quaranta and his crewmates]].
* {{Bookends}}:

* TheMafia: The trailer reveals that this group is the main antagonist of the movie, this time around.

It is set for release on September 1st.

** The movie also begins and ends with [[spoiler:[=McCall=] single-handedly wiping out an entire Mafia hideout, and saving the leader for last.]]

* {{Bookends}}: In the first movie, [=McCall=] faced off against TheMafiya. For this final installment, he's now against TheMafia.