The Accountant 2 movie evaluation: Adds up to a fairly good time

A nonetheless from ‘The Accountant 2’
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An murderer, Anaïs (Daniella Pineda), walks into a bar to meet Raymond King (J.Ok. Simmons), a former Treasury agent. He tells her he wants assist discovering a lacking Salvadoran household and is then killed within the ensuing shootout. Treasury agent and King’s protégée, Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson), finds King’s physique with “Find the Accountant” scrawled on his arm.

Meanwhile, Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck), aka the Accountant, has gamed the relationship app system and finds himself at a singles night time, baring his tooth in what he imagines to be a nice smile. Though skeptical, Medina contacts Wolff, who ropes in his brother Braxton (Jon Bernthal) for backup. Braxton remains to be a deadly murderer, regardless of being two weeks away from adopting a corgi pet (aww) and sharing tales in regards to the well-paid terrier from The Wizard of Oz with the girl at his job web site.

Chris, who’s on the spectrum and good with numbers, works as an accountant for harmful individuals around the globe. He stays one step forward of the villains with assist from Justine (Allison Robertson, Alison Wright, voice), whom he met as a boy on the Harbor Neuroscience Academy.

The hunt for the Salvadoran household pits the trio towards human traffickers and all-around unhealthy guys, together with Burke (Robert Morgan), Cobb (Grant Harvey), and Batu (Andrew Howard).

While not as tightly written as 2016’s The Accountant, and due to this fact not fairly as enjoyable, The Accountant 2 shines in scenes the place Bernthal and Affleck riff off one another. Shifting the main target away from Affleck’s autistic accountant makes the sequel really feel extra like a customary motion flick.

The sequel additionally suffers from a number of inexplicable plot factors. Unlike the unique, the place Medina’s methodical monitoring of Christian felt detailed and plausible, this movie skips over key motivations, beginning with why King spent his retirement looking for this one household.

Christian’s back-story and the place he received his explicit set of abilities added layers of authenticity to the character whereas serving to on this planet constructing.

Still, Affleck stays watchable as ever, and even busts out some cool dance strikes. What is with all these dancing accountants? We simply noticed Tom Hiddleston burn up the dance ground in The Life of Chuck!

Apparently, a third movie and a collection are within the works. For followers of The Accountant, the sequel could not ship the identical delight, however it’s nonetheless a fairly engrossing motion movie with slick fights and high-octane chases.

The Accountant 2 is at the moment streaming on Amazon Prime Video