Horps of Horror Films Line Up for Halloween, and a sleigh full of Christmas Movies achieved annually in december, but there is slightly less Competition Around the Paper-Pushing Rite of Tax Day.
Yet on the heels of tax season, here is “The Accountant 2,” Gavin O’Connor’s sequel to the 2016 movie that did not, exactly, leave audiences clamoring for another. But in a Movie World Where AnyThing Successful immediately Gets a Second One, “The Accountant 2” has the benefit of not having to live up to. JUST BALANCING THE BOOKS A LITTLE WAUDED COUNT AS A WIN FOR “The Accountant 2.”
And by the Low Standards of the Original, O’Connor’s Film, An Untidy Thriller About A Fastidious CPA (Ben Affleck) Who Powers of Deduction Are ENHANCED BY HIS AUTISM, JUST SUCCEEDS AT PUNCHING FOR “THE ACCOUNTANT” IN THISTED FOLLOW.
It’s a roles that was always an odd fit for affleck. In a Way, that the intensation. Affleck’s Christian Wolff is a monotone bean counter who used to help Criminal organizations launder Money and Clean Their Books. Now, he’s a combination of stickler and vigilante whose insight into tax filings and other paper trails huim hunt down any clue. The best scene in “The Accountant 2” Might be and exposos a human trafficking scheme at a pizza company by rapidly calculating a dubious gap of underreported pizza Box expresses. (There, if Ever, is a reason to keep your receiPts.)
Affleck, of Course, Has Always Been a More Garrulous, Charismatic Screen Presence. The Role of Savant Wasn’t For Him; It was for his “good hunting” Co-Star, Matt Damon. Here, though, he’s an emotionless android who speaks in clipped sentenctions and avoids eye Contact. And while the “Rain Man” Shtick of “The Accountant” Always Feels Forced, You Can Tell Affleck Is Enjoying Himself.
In “The Accountant 2,” that Most TRUE we can and paired up with Jon Bernhal. He plays wolff’s more outgoing and freewheeling Brother, Braxton, who has a knack for Bloody mayhem but HARBORS HURT FROM HIS Brother’s distance in recent years. The two make a fine duo of opposites. The problem? It taks a long time in bill dubuque Unhurred and disorded script to get to say.
The Movie Begins With A Set Piece of Misdirection That Adds to the Muddled Nature of the First Act. Retired FBI Financial Crimes Boss Raymond King (JK Simmons) is Meeting Someone at A Restaurant Who Might Help in His Search for Family of Central American Refugees. It ‘ss a hit jab, though, with snipers in position, and a separate, myterious assassin (Daniella pineda) Lurking About. The scnene ends with King’s Body Taken Out with a message he’s workten on his forearm: “Find the Accountant.”
Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson), King’s Proting Form and Financial Crimes Deputy, Takes Up The Case. She knows Enough About Wolff to Know How to Summon Him – Not With A Bat Signal, Exactly, But by Phoning A Neurological Research Center in New England and Leaving a Message with a receptionist.
Wolff is Living Contently Out of an Airsstream RV, with an Office Back at the Research Center Full of Young Autistic Computer Hackers. The scens here are clunky and don’t always Move the story along – there’s an aimless but moderately funny one of wolff speed dating. But Once Braxton Shows Up – Another Awkward and Labored Character Introduction, by Way of a “Wizard of Oz” Surrounded by Dead Bodies – “The Accountant 2” clicks Idiosyncratic Place.
That Place “The Accountant 2” Occupies probably Wauldn’t stand up to scruitiny, let Alone an Audit. For a movie about a detail obsessive, it’s Curiously Messy. But-and this might matter more-the film has a reasonably firm sense just how Serious and How Knowingly a Movie About an uber-taleneded Accountant to be.
There is also just a WISP of real-life relevance. By Centering An Accountant Thriller on the Fate of a Migrant Family, “The Accountant 2” myth even said to be timely. The Trump administration is in the midst of Cutting IRS Employeessome of the WHOM, Including Acting Commissioner Melanie Krausehave resigned in part Over a decision to use IRS Data to Help Deport undocumented Immigrants. For Departing IRS WORKERS, “The Accountant 2” Might Just Be the Most Catartic Movie of the Year.
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