The Accountant 2 (2025)
Back on 8/26/24, we posted a rave about the first film in this series (a third is in the works). We loved watching Ben Affleck's Christian Wolff, an autistic accountant for criminal scumbags around the country and the world.
Woe to those who took Christian's meek, introverted demeanor for granted......not knowing that his dad had trained him and his brother Braxton in all the fine arts of ass-kicking combat and weaponry.
Now our favorite lightning fast cruncher of figures and felons takes on a world wide sex trafficking ring comprised of the most lethal depraved killers imaginable.
Facing such formidable foes, Christian calls upon the long estranged Braxton, (Jon Bernthal), a freelance assassin with his own family issues.
This oddest of odd couples clash constantly, their sibling rivalry aggravated by Braxton's simmering anger and resentment.......a loud Alpha predator, Braxton's remembers their painful early years of protecting, defending and coping with his unique neurodivergent brother.
Christian, terribly limited in his capacity to express emotion openly, tries awkward attempts to reconcile with Braxton, who's as blunt and outward as Christian is contemplative and inert. But in a clever and funny sequence, the brothers find a way to reconnect with each other in, of all places, a line-dancing, country and western bar.
But then there's the traffickers who need decimating, and the bros must swing into desperate action to stop them from executing and burying a busload of children they've separated from their families.
Spectacular carnage erupts but the film never forgets it's really all about the two brothers.......and the set-up for the third film promises a lot of potential fun.....and who knows how many dead bodies along the way, with Affleck and Bernthal functioning as the Abbott & Costello of violent chaos.
BQ had a blast with this one. We always welcome a fresh take on action movies and this movie's got it. 4 stars (****).
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