2025 • Apple Original Films
Rated: PG-13
Length: 1 hr 46min
Action ~ Comedy ~ Family
Director: Simon Cellan Jones
Writer: David Coggeshall
Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Monaghan, Zoe Colletti, Van Crosby, Peter Lindsey, Theodore Lindsey, Kit Harington and Reda Elazouar.
The Deadliest Weapon Is Family!
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The Family Plan 2 (2025) – Review
Two years after events in The Family Plan, Dan Morgan (Mark Wahlberg) has settled into a life of semi-retirement running his own private security firm in Buffalo. While his family is now fully aware of his past as an elite assassin, life is still complicated by growing pains of a family drifting apart; his daughter Nina (Zoe Colletti) is studying abroad in London, and his son Kyle (Van Crosby) is more interested in gaming than family bonding. Desperate to keep his family together for the holidays, Dan books a Christmas trip to London to visit Nina, under the professional cover of a security assessment for a major bank.
When Dan’s criminal father, McCaffrey, dies in prison, Dan hopes for a fresh start but is instead met with the sudden appearance of a half-brother he never knew he had: Aidan, also known as Finn (Kit Harington). Their festive Holiday vacation quickly takes a dangerous turn when it’s revealed that the Bank Manager who called Dan for a security assessment is Aiden—who feels cheated out of his father’s inheritance and crime network—has been stalking Dan and his family. Their Holiday vacation becomes an international game of cat-and-mouse as Aidan blackmails Dan into executing a high-stakes bank heist in exchange for his family’s safety.
The action escalates as the Morgans are forced to go on the run through the streets of London and Paris, utilizing their own burgeoning skills—including Nina’s spy-tech and Kyle’s elite hacking—to outmaneuver Aidan’s assassins. Between car chases past iconic European landmarks and holiday hijinks involving Nina’s new boyfriend, Omar, Dan and his family must once again lean on their unconventional “bonding” to survive. Ultimately, Dan and Jessica (Michelle Monaghan) prove that while they can’t outrun their history, they can certainly fight for their future, ending the holiday with a new sense of unity and adventure.
In the world of movies, sequels are rarely any good. It is usually a question of “Why did they?” That is certainly true in this case. The Family Plan was “just ok” to begin with, easily forgotten. The Family Plan 2 is even worse, if you didn’t watch the first one you would ask yourself, “What is this really about?” In the case of The Family Plan 2, they shouldn’t have bothered. If you were wondering “Should you?” That answer is a stark no, don’t bother. Unless you are looking for something to help you fall asleep and forget everything, because you will fall asleep trying to watch it and wake up not remembering anything except how forgettable it was.
The Family Plan 2 (2025) – Review by Bobby @ Streaming Movie Night.
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