Next month Ben Affleck’s celebrated action thriller The Accountant will receive a sequel: The Accountant 2. After the original film recorded an impressive $ 155 million and cinema fans celebrated the film as one of Ben Affleck’s best action roles, the reviews have now also arrived at the sequel.
The reviews of the Accountant 2 promise action with a wink
The trailer for the sequel already showed: Ben Affleck plays Christian Wolff again in the Accountant 2, the title -giving accountant in the autistic spectrum, which, in addition to his sharp mind, also has a fatal talent in dealing with the weapon.
When the head of the US treasure office is killed in the sequel, Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) asks her old acquaintances for helping to clarify the case: Christian has always done it and if he can seek contact with Brax (Jon Bernthal) again, all the better.
Look here the trailer for Ben Affleck’s action sequel The Accountant 2
The Accountant 2 – Trailer (German) HD
Nine years after part 1, Gavin O’Connor (Warrior) tied to his first action hit and the first critics: Ben Affleck’s return to his most fatal role was already allowed to see and review. For example, Owen Gleiberman writes about an improvement compared to part 1 at Variety:
The Accountant 2 delivers a pleasantly winding, Hyperbrutal good time away.
Lovia Gyarke complements the Hollywood reporter to “entertaining, but confused continuation “that shines primarily with the interaction of Bernthal and Affleck:
Most of the time shows [Gavin] Oconnor is disciplined in his direction: he can from almost every moment Get out humor by staging action scenes as bluntly as Christian’s comments And creates transitions that are as precise as the accuracy of the accountant.
Tim Grierson explains at Screen International:
The original from 2016 had its share of wilky components, but the successor Clever leans into the absurditywhich makes the second chapter a more pleasant ride without degenerating to the self-parody.
Christian Zilko in turn writes to indiewire:
I am still not convinced that this franchise exists for another reason that Ben Affleck is jealous that Matt Damon was allowed to play the leading role in Good Will Hunting. But it offers More heart and laugh in the second round.
But not all of them are convinced by The Accountant 2. Brian Tallerico at Roger Ebert is missing in the continuation of the necessary “Wift” And Chase Hutchinson even calls the film in its playlist criticism “Sad excuse for an action film”:
There is a buddy comedy somewhere in the accountant 2. But it is among so many tiring digressions buried that it never comes to light.
In Germany, the action thriller The Accountant 2 starts April 24, 2025 in the cinema. If you want to see part 1 again (or for the first time), you don’t have to search for long at the streaming services: Netflix currently has The Accountant in the program.