The Equalizer 3 is making a big splash in its opening weekend!

The action movie directed by Antoine Fuqua stars Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, and Eugenio Mastrandrea. In the film, Denzel‘s character, Robert McCall, reconciles his dark past and makes new allies in Southern Italy while taking on local crime bosses.

The Equalizer 3 will reach $42 million over the four-day Labor Day weekend (Sept. 1-4), which is the second-best opening of the holiday weekend in box office history.

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The Equalizer 3 ranks behind only Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which released in 2021 and generated $94.5 million in it’s Labor Day opening weekend.

The franchise’s third entry currently holds a 76% “fresh” critic approval score from 95 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, a step up from The Equalizer 2‘s 52% “rotten” score and The Equalizer‘s 61% “fresh” score.

Check out this crazy incident that happened during the filming of Antoine Fuqua‘s The Equalizer 3!