The Accountant 2 (2025)

This is a buddy hit man movie, and I have to say I enjoyed it, more than the last buddy hit man movie I watched on a plane (Wolfs) by a long shot. Ben Affleck almost literally plays the accountant to Jon Bernthal’s straight ahead hit man vibe, and the pair of likable performers have fantastic chemistry, conveying that love-hate thing that is exclusively a sibling dynamic and the movie hums off their energy just enough to sustain it. According to reviews, the movie is actually linked to The Accountant 1, which i haven't seen (there is a trend on over water flights to have the whole ouevre of a series available, but the original of this series was not on the menu). Raymond King left FinCEN for P.I. work and has followed the clues around the disappearance of a family of three to some very dark and dangerous places. He’s meeting with a mysterious woman named Anaïs, but she’s not the problem: the armed men in the building and outside it are. Are they there for King? Anaïs? Both? After a well-staged bathroom fight, King ends up the victim of a sniper shot in the street, but not before he has time to scrawl something on his arm: “Find the accountant.” Which is exactly what Marybeth Medina, a Treasury agent who is hunting King's killer does, and the three of them go about figuring out what happened and why.