Review | The Accountant 2 movie review: Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal in illogical thriller sequel



2.5/5 stars

โ€œFind the accountantโ€, reads the scrawl on the arm of J.K. Simmonsโ€™ soon-to-be-dead private eye at the beginning of The Accountant 2, the convoluted sequel to the 2016 thriller starring Ben Affleck.

The number cruncher in question, Christian Wolff (Affleck), is no ordinary accountant โ€“ although he does know a lot about tax, it seems. He is mob-trained, with money launderers and warlords as his clientele.

He is also autistic, lives in an Airstream trailer and is a lone wolf, although, judging by the speed-dating session he goes on in one of the filmโ€™s more amusing sequences, he is not against finding a life partner.

The film is scripted by Bill Dubuque, who wrote the original and is also a co-creator of the television show Ozark, another tale of a mob-connected financial adviser. Unfortunately, Dubuqueโ€™s story here is very patchy.

Following the aforementioned death of Simmonsโ€™ character, who is shot outside a bar after meeting a blonde operative (Daniella Pineda), the whodunit story kicks in as US Treasury agent Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) is tasked with unravelling who pulled the trigger on her former boss.

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