The Romantic Festival in Boise, Idaho is boasting that the previous expenditure of the speed dating event has already led to 53 marriages-and a T-shirt in the value of $ 25 is even available for the dating. But instead of waiting for the end of the opening speech, the female participants storm prematurely to all in front of the same table – and none of it is less than the title.
Now in real life it would probably be sufficient as an explanation that Christian Wolff looks like Ben Affleck (“Air”). But in the world of “The Accountant 2“The autistic auditor has outsaw the algorithm of the event-and answered all points in such a way in such a way that the women only fly to him. Only stupid that he is only back to escape all the queue with them-only for him ancient-tax law anecdote.
Success in the cinema, a mega hit in streaming
By the way, it is no surprise that “The Accountant 2” strikes a much lighter tone than the predecessor: “Warrior” director Gavin O'Connor finally said from the start that he is striving for a trilogy that is becoming increasingly developed towards Buddy-Movie in the course of history. It is very surprising, on the other hand, how long the second part was long in coming, after all, in 2016, global revenue of $ 155 million was available at the end of the cinema evaluation-even though the action thriller only cost $ 40 million.
A year later, according to the market research company ComScore, “The Accountant” even became a streaming film of the year-even in front of actually much larger blockbusters such as “Fantastic Beasts and where they can be found”, “Fifty Shades of Gray 2” or “Doctor Strange”. Perhaps it is also due to the fact that Amazon MGM jumped in after the years of dingy and Warner Bros has bought the sequel rights-after all, a hit on Amazon Prime Video is almost safe. But cinema fans can also be happy: “The Accountant 2” is very different, but therefore by no means weaker than the convincing predecessor.
Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal are just together in the best moments of “The Accountant 2” – a magnificent chemistry!
Ray King (JK Simmons), the former director of the Financial Crime Enforcement Network (fincen), is now hiring private studies – and seems to be on the trail of a very big deal. When he meets his informant Anaïs (Daniella Pineda) in a bingo pub, he is shot by unknown perpetrators. Shortly before his death, however, he was able to leave a message on his forearm to his former assistant Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson): “Find the accountant!”
And indeed: Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck), which was submerged after the events of the first part, not only appears, he even agreed to solve the investigative puzzles left by her ex-boss. When it becomes clear that a mighty human dealer ring has his fingers in the game here, Christian himself needs help-and therefore turns to his professional killer brother Braxton (Jon Bernthal), who has just overcome half a dozen gangsters in a penthouse in Berlin …
“Rain Man” on steroids
Since “Sound of Freedom ”'s success of the nicely mega success of“ Sound of Freedom ”, human retailers have currently been difficult for adversaries. But honestly: This time the mission and the associated puzzles are much more in the background than in the first part – the only excessive action sequence is even in the final, and it also proves to be quite interchangeable. But that is by no means as bad as you might think, because the qualities are in the sequel elsewhere – and director Gavin O'Connor was quite right with his announcement that a kind of “rain man 'on steroids” float for “The Accountant 2”.
In the most successful US film of 1988 it was still Tom Cruise who accompanies his older autistic brother (Oscar for Dustin Hoffman) on a road trip. But at least as far as the fraternal chemistry is concerned, Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal are in no way inferior to the big role models: if Christian, despite Braxton (with “Top Gun”, has another Tom-Cruise blockbuster greetings from the eighties) when flirting in a country local, before he seems to have found his call in the line dance Simply heartfelt – even if you are able to safely put your adversaries from the fragile windows at the subsequent pub fight.
Only in the final of “The Accountant 2” there is an extensive action sequence for the first time – but the strengths are somewhere else anyway.
The tone is also much more relaxed despite the high body count and human trafficking issue: Where Sherlock Holmes is well-founded by his Baker Street gang consisting of street children in order to support him again and again in the investigation, Christian is now relating to a group of neurodive-hugging kids, which is listed by his silent partner (Allison Robertson), which with her hacking skills Still as much a problem with pressure on your keyboard.
And when the scene was shot, in which the brothers sit on the roof of Christian's motorhome and hiss a beer with camping chairs, the plan was likely to cut only one or two short moments out of the dialogues into the final film. Instead, the scene lasts for minutes – and is one of the best in the film! “The Accountant 2” as an ultimate hangout movie-we would not have expected that, but is incredibly chilled …
Conclusion: Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal are a buddy duo to cuddle! The action-packed crime thriller, on the other hand, remains primarily a means to an end in order to give the unequal canvas brothers enough opportunity to chilled cubes.