Vigilante follow-up fails to fire

If the first Equalizer existed only to rapidly progress our unstoppable Good Samaritan though a hierarchy of disposable bad guys on his way to a grandstanding showdown, this more protracted edition is easily distracted and ludicrously contrived.

Denzel Washington in The Equalizer II

Cinema

The Equalizer 2: Directed by: Antoine Fuqua, Nationwide, 15A,Rating:**

The Eyes of Orson Welles: Directed by: Mark Cousins, Selected, no cert,Rating:****

The National Rifle Association has a slogan it trots out when ever anyone has the temerity to challenge its reactionary political agenda: “The only thing capable of stopping a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”

For The Equalizer 2, Antoine Fuqua’s follow-up (somehow not called ...