| Director | Antoine Fuqua |
|---|---|
| Budget | $70 million |
| Box office | $191.1 million |
At a secluded winery in Sicily, Robert McCall kills the gangster Lorenzo Vitale and his henchmen to obtain a key to the winery's vault to recoup money stolen in a cyber-heist. While McCall is leaving the winery, Vitale's grandson shoots him in the back. McCall contemplates suicide due to the injury, but reconsiders and then takes the ferry back to the mainland.
While driving on the Amalfi Coast, McCall pulls over and slips into unconsciousness from shock. Gio Bonucci, a local carabiniere marshal, encounters and rescues him. He brings McCall to the remote coastal Italian town Altamonte, where Dr. Enzo Arisio treats him.
As he recovers from the shooting, McCall becomes acquainted with the locals and grows fond of them and their village. Anonymously, he places a telephone call to CIA officer Emma Collins to tip her off about the winery's clandestine role in the illegal drug trade. Collins and other CIA operatives discover enormous amounts of cash as well as bags of fenethylline tablets hidden in a storeroom, confirming McCall's suspicions. She locates McCall in Altamonte and they continue to cooperate.
Meanwhile, members of the Camorra (run by brothers Vincent and Marco Quaranta) harass and kill villagers in an attempt to coerce them out of their housing and take over Altamonte for commercialisation purposes. McCall overhears Marco pressuring local store owner Angelo for payments. To make an example of Angelo, the Camorra firebombs his fish store as the town watches.
Gio reviews video of the firebombing and calls the Italian central police for an inquiry. Having captured Gio's wife and daughter to lure him, the Camorra attack Gio and beat him for interfering in their operations. They had been alerted by an informant within the police. Marco demands that Gio set up a boat for him with contacts in Somalia to expand his operations. Overhearing the conversation, McCall asks Marco to move his operations to a different location to leave the townspeople alone. When he refuses, McCall kills him and his henchmen.
An enraged Vincent threatens and tortures the Naples police chief and instructs him to find the person responsible for Marco's death. Collins's car is rigged with a bomb by Vincent, but she survives the blast and is instead hospitalized. Vincent returns to Altamonte, and, in front of the townspeople, threatens to kill Gio unless Marco's killer is identified. McCall reveals himself, but the citizens begin to protest, recording Vincent and his henchmen with their camera phones as he prepares to kill McCall. Vincent and his cadre retreat. They regroup at his mansion, planning to retaliate the following day.
That night, McCall infiltrates Vincent's mansion. He kills Vincent's bodyguards one by one and administers to Vincent a lethal dose of the drugs Vincent has been selling throughout Europe. With McCall by his side, Vincent stumbles dazed and gasping for breath out of his mansion into the dark streets and alleys of the town, before he collapses and dies from the forced overdose. Through Collins, McCall transfers cash he had taken from the winery to an elderly couple who had lost that amount when their pension fund was hacked and stolen.
At CIA headquarters, Collins receives a promotion for her contribution to ending the Altamonte drug trade. She receives a package that contains a book of contacts and a note from McCall. He congratulates her and states that her mother would be proud of her; the note reveals that Collins is the daughter of McCall's late friend and colleague, Susan Plummer.
As the danger of the Quaranta brothers has been removed, McCall celebrates with the locals in Altamonte after their football team's victory.