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The Accountant 2
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGavin O'Connor
Written byBill Dubuque
Based onCharacters
by Bill Dubuque
Produced by
Starring
CinematographySeamus McGarvey
Edited byRichard Pearson
Music byBryce Dessner
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • March 8, 2025 (2025-03-08) (SXSW)
  • April 25, 2025 (2025-04-25) (United States)
Running time
132 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$80 million[2]
Box office$71.7 million[3][4]

The Accountant 2 (stylized as The Accountant2) is a 2025 American action thriller film directed by Gavin O'Connor and written by Bill Dubuque.[5] It is the sequel to The Accountant (2016). Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, and J. K. Simmons reprise their roles from the previous film, with Daniella Pineda joining the cast.

The film premiered at the South by Southwest Festival on March 8, 2025 to positive reviews from critics. It was theatrically released on April 25, 2025 in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and internationally by the original film's domestic distributor Warner Bros. Pictures. A sequel is in development.

Plot

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Former FinCEN director Raymond King meets with the mysterious assassin Anaïs to ask her help locating a Salvadorean family, offering only a dated photo of the parents and their young son. Anaïs doesn’t respond to the offer but warns King he’s been followed. King is assassinated in the ensuing gunfight while Anaïs walks away unscathed. King’s protege and current director of FinCEN, Medina, identifies his body and sees “find the accountant” written on his arm and decides to take up the case.

Medina, despite being mistrustful of Christian Wolff’s illegal activities, asks him for help finding the family in the photo. Wolff organizes a collage of information which shows that the family in the photo fled from El Salvador to Los Angeles, encountering various hazards along the way. Cobb, the man tasked with killing Anaïs and King, informs his supervisor Burke who tells him to continue pursuing Anaïs lest she realize what Burke did to her.

Christian invites his estranged brother, Braxton, still an assassin, to help with the case. Justine, still residing at the New Hampshire compound where she met Christian, works with a group of autistic children to hack into different technologies to help Christian. Their group manages to find a photo of Anaïs but are unable to identify her. Uncomfortable with their illegal methods, Medina breaks from the group. She visits a hospital mentioned in one of King’s reports, where she discovers Anaïs is actually the mother from the photo. Anaïs was involved in a critical accident and after losing her memories, she developed intense combat skills before escaping. Batu, a contractor for hitmen, sets a contract for Medina which Braxton rejects. Justine warns Wolff and he arrives after Anaïs has wounded Medina.

Braxton and Christian realize that Anaïs’ still living, autistic son Alberto is being held captive at a prison camp in Juarez with other children of trafficking victims, separated from their families. They assault the compound and manage to save Alberto and the rest of the children after killing Cobb and the other guards. Justine blackmails Batu into canceling his contract on Medina. Anaïs, having regained some of her memories, realizes Burke is the person who imprisoned her son and killed her husband in Juarez. She finds Burke in hiding and kills him. Justine and the autistic children prepare to welcome Alberto to their facility in New Hampshire, and Braxton and Christian discuss going on a brotherly camping trip.

Cast

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Production

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In June 2017, a sequel to The Accountant was announced to be in development, with Ben Affleck set to reprise his role and Bill Dubuque and Gavin O'Connor returning to write and direct, respectively.[6] By February 2020, Affleck confirmed that developments were ongoing, with the studio having considered retroactively turning a separate script that they are developing into The Accountant 2. The actor additionally expressed interest in the potential for a television series.[7] In September 2021, Connor revealed a sequel was in development, with a possibility of a third entry. Affleck and Jon Bernthal were confirmed to reprise their roles as Christian Wolff and Brax.[8]

In February 2024, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired the distribution rights from Warner Bros. Pictures, with an estimated $10 million qualified spending and tax incentives. Through an existing deal with the studio, Warner Bros. will remain involved as the film's international distributor.[9] In March 2024, J. K. Simmons and Cynthia Addai-Robinson were also announced to be returning, with Daniella Pineda, Allison Robertson, Robert Morgan, and Grant Harvey joining the cast.[10][11] Principal photography began on March 25, 2024, in California, with Seamus McGarvey returning as cinematographer,[12][13][14][15][16] and wrapped on August 16.[17]

Bryce Dessner has composed the film score, replacing Mark Isham who scored the first film.[18]

Release

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The film premiered at South by Southwest on March 8, 2025, and was theatrically released in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios and Internationally by Warner Bros. Pictures on April 25, 2025.[19][20][21] Advanced screenings of the film took place on April 15, 2025 in honor of Tax Day.[22]

Reception

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Box office

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As of May 9, 2025, The Accountant 2 has grossed $46.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $25.2 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $71.7 million.[3][4]

In the United States and Canada, The Accountant 2 was released alongside Until Dawn, the wide expansion of The Legend of Ochi, and the re-release of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, and was projected to gross $20–25 million from 3,610 theaters in its opening weekend.[2] It made $9.4 million on its first day, including $2.5 million from preview screenings. The film went on to debut to $24.5 million, finishing third behind holdover Sinners and Revenge of the Sith.[23]

Critical response

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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 76% of 187 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.2/10. The website's consensus reads: "Improving on the original by leaning into Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal's buddy comedy chemistry, The Accountant 2 can safely be filed under a good time at the movies."[24] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 58 out of 100, based on 41 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[25] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale, while 68% of those surveyed by PostTrak said they would definitely recommend it.[23]

Future

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In September 2021, O'Connor revealed plans to expand The Accountant into a trilogy of movies. With production slated to be completed with the second installment, the filmmaker categorized the third movie as a buddy film; calling the project "Rain Man on steroids".[26][7]

See also

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References

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  18. ^ "Bryce Dessner Scoring Gavin O'Connor's The Accountant 2". Film Music Reporter. March 5, 2025. Retrieved May 4, 2025.
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