Criticism of The accountant 2 (The Accountant 2), The sequel to the 2016 film with Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal distributing t this as the main attraction. Premiere on April 25, 2025.
Nine years after The accountantit comes to us The accountant 2 with Ben Affleck Recovering a character who, based, feels quite well if we take into account that it is justified that it is inexpressive.
Repeat the controls Gavin O’Connor which is already mired in the preproduction of Fasthis next action thriller with a script by the popular Taylor Sheridan that we do not stop talking about projects of the size of Yellowstone either 1923.
Unfortunately, he has not had his talent to write the script of this film, whose narrative coherence is not the most solid in the world. Lightly superior to its predecessor, drags the same problems, such as the lack of charisma of the protagonist, the dilation of the plot and the script holes, although it is more entertaining together.
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Christian Wolff continues to move as a fish in the water when solving complex problems. When an old acquaintance is killed, leaving behind a cryptic message to “find the accountant”, he is forced to solve the case collaborating with Marybeth Medina, deputy director of the United States Treasury.
She soon denies Wolff’s tax methods, always regardless of legality, especially when he decides to recruit his brother Braxton, who has gained life as a hitman completely outside his projects.
What begins as the search for members of an immigrant family ends up becoming the disarticulation of a dangerous network of traffickers from people led by an unscrupulous guy who tries to protect their empire at all costs.
The accountant 2 It meets expectations regarding action, although it has few long and complex sequences. Just three strategically distributed at the beginning, in the Ecuador of the film and in the end, as a great climax. It is the latter that looks best and greater quality dimensions.
No fights regarding their materialization, and with such hyperviolent moments as enjoyed with pleasure and rhythm. Good work also by specialists who give a real show and put their good work at the service of the likelihood of the movements, original and executed perfectly.
But we are, again, before a film for more than two hours, unnecessarily long and convoluted to be resolved with a script turn that brushes the ridiculous referring to the most simplistic desktop cinema.
Its greatest sin, however, is not to have known how Like the adoption of the puppy, the dating ritual or that of the country bar (yes, Affleck marks rigor dance and is not short). If the idea was to humanize the characters or worse, make them comic, it is a failed strategy.
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There is a manifest will to take the film to the field of the Buddy Movie Fraternal taking advantage of the passage to give some color to a film that counting only with Affleck would have been very gray. De facto both characters are shown as opposites at all times: Wolff Parco in words, Verborreico Braxton; The first indolent, the second sentimental …
It should be imagined that the public who will go to the room will do so above all to enjoy the melee scenes, the shootings and the elbow with an elbow of these two figures, so every time he leaves the raíl so as not to contribute anything, the answer is to leave the eyes blank. Because? So that?
The accountant 2 It is, in sum, a film that is seen, but that has a very restricted margin to make think or excite the audience that is a little fed up with topics that are repeated again and again in certain types of American cinema with social consciousness.
We know what we are going to the movie theater, which is to entertain ourselves, so we do not ask for pears to the elm. What would have been interesting is to adjust the footage and, being more ambitious, that the crux was a little more credible, since the secondary ones are up to the circumstances and Daniella Pineda puts everything on his part.
ASSESSMENT:
The protagonist binomial and the action sequences that dot the footage save a film with a more than worthy technical invoice but with a very improvable script.
THE BEST:
The good chemistry between AFFleck and Bernthal and the three contested action scenes that the film has.
WORST:
The script turn to solve the plot is worthy of an episode of Scooby-Doo and the film too long for an action thriller form.
