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The Accountant 2 (2025)

The Accountant 2 comes nine years after the first film which saw Ben Affleck go through a film with no emotion and being quite handy with a gun. I’ll be honest that I thought it was ok at best but wasn't really crying out for a sequel especially nearly a decade after the first one but since we are in an era of belated sequels i suppose another one won't make much difference. The film starts with J.K. Simmons’ Ray King, killed after meeting Anaïs and Medina from the first film, is trying to find out who killed him and she enlists the help of Christian Wolff (Affleck) and he then enlists his estranged brother Braxton (Jon Bernthal) to help.

The thing about this film is that it's very hard to like. I was never bored and felt like it was a massive step up from the first one but I just found it almost impossible to connect with. There are moments that I enjoyed such as when Christian and Braxton take on the compound and in fact the second half of the film is much stronger than the first. The relationship between Christian and Braxton is one of the few highlights of the film. 

There isn't really as much to write about as I normally would about a film. It’s not terrible and it's not great, there is something there that makes me not hate it but I would be being dishonest if I said I would recommend this. Not sure that the film needed to exist but here it is and it’ll entertain some people when it eventually ends up on streaming. The film would definitely be improved if there were more J.K. Simmons, he always makes films more entertaining.



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