The Accountant 2… Not That Good But Not That Bad

After watching The Accountant, a movie I was thoroughly uninterested in for the longest time, I had high anticipation for the sequel. The first one turned out to be really good. I liked it because the plot wasn’t too complicated, characters had enough depth to know whether we’re supposed to like them or not, and there was a little bit of everything: humor, action, romance, thrills. And here I thought it was just going to be about Excel and taxes and pocket protectors.

Obviously I was wrong.

Welp, I was wrong about the second one, too. I thought it would be good. And to be honest, it wasn’t bad, I guess. I mean, have you seen Another Simple Favor? That’s a bad movie. It was a mess. But The Accountant 2 was a little hard to follow, the plot was weak, and Anna Kendrick wasn’t in it at all (she was a key part of the first movie). Jon Bernthal– who played Ben Affleck’s brother– was great, and the acting in general was fine. There were more unbelievable parts; for instance how can the bad guys miss shooting a target from 10 yards away many, many times, but the good guys get a kill shot from 50 yards out while they’re doing a tuck and roll? It’s a cliché in many action films and I can’t figure out why… except that we know the good guys can’t die, it’ kind of ruins the plot. The scene with Jon Bernthal sitting with the blonde woman and asking if she’s afraid of him was one of the better scenes in any movie I’ve seen lately. A really nice reveal at the end of that scene.

Brax, Christian Wolff’s brother, also used a Samsung Flip 4 phone, so I appreciated that. I wondered why it wasn’t a Flip 5 or Flip 6, but then remembered at the time of filming, the Flip 4 was probably the latest model. Don’t even get me started on Samsung dropping the ball on the whole “close your phone so you can be more present in the moment” then proceeds to make a giant screen on the outside for the Flip 5 and 6. Sheesh, guys. That is the #1 reason I didn’t trade my 4 in for a 6 a few weeks ago.

Overall, the movie is worth watching on a rainy day. But don’t expect to enjoy it as much as the first one.

-Out of the Wilderness