The Accountant 2 (2025)

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  5 / 10

  Director Gavin O’Connor‘s “The Accountant 2” is…fine. It’s not a bad movie, but it doesn’t leave much of an impression either. This is the kind of “good enough” movie you watch on a slow weekend, enjoy well enough in the moment, and then forget ever existed a week later. It’s much like the first one, really: assuming you remember anything about that.
  
  This time around, the story picks up with Treasury Agent Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) reaching out to Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck), an autistic man with incredible abilities in mathematics and some serious combat skills. Wolff is still working as a forensic accountant, uncovering fraud within criminal organizations. His employers aren’t exactly above the board, but they realize that Wolff’s skills are worth any price. Agent Medina needs help because someone close to her (J.K. Simmons) is mysteriously murdered. Wolff enlists his estranged, trigger-happy brother Braxton (Jon Bernthal) to help crack the case (and some skulls), and the trio unearth a conspiracy that involves an extensive human trafficking network (because apparently that’s the default plot device for every action-thriller now).
  
  Affleck and Bernthal are actually the highlight here because their weird, distant-but-bonded brotherly dynamic works well and gives the movie a much-needed emotional anchor. They’re fun to watch, even when they aren’t given all that much to do. The dialogue isn’t great, but the action is solid, gritty, and earns its R-rating without going overboard. There are shootouts, brutal hand-to-hand fights, and a few slick set pieces that genre fans will definitely appreciate.
  
  But here’s the thing: the movie never quite figures out what tone it wants to land on. One minute it’s dark and heavy, the next it’s cracking jokes or leaning into awkward emotional beats that don’t really hit. Those sudden tonal shifts feel jarring and take you out of the story. And speaking of story, it’s pretty forgettable. There may be a lot of moving parts, but there’s also a lot of familiar thriller clichés and not a ton of surprises.
  
  While I didn’t thoroughly enjoy myself while watching “The Accountant 2,” it’s at least decently made and competently acted. If you’re already a fan of the first film (or even vaguely remember it), you’ll probably find enough to keep yourself engaged with this completely middle-of-the-road action thriller. Otherwise, this is a skip.
  
  By: Louisa Moore / SCREEN ZEALOTS

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