FILM
THE ACCOUNTANT 2
Brothers in arms.
THE LONG-AWAITED (TAX) RETURN OF BEN AFFLECK’S ACTION HERO
★★★
OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 132 MINS
DIRECTOR Gavin O’Connor
CAST Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Daniella Pineda, J.K. Simmons
PLOT When private eye King (Simmons) is murdered, his accountant/assassin associate Christian Wolff (Affleck) takes over his last case.
GAVIN O’CONNOR’S THE ACCOUNTANT (2016), written by Bill Dubuque, introduced Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck): a buttoned-down number-cruncher with a sideline as a vigilante avenger. It was a big enough hit for ‘Untitled Accountant Sequel’ to go immediately into development but it’s taken nearly a decade for that project to get off the back burner. Given how long it’s been, it’s an accomplishment that O’Connor and Dubuque call in so many of the original cast — the only absentee is Anna Kendrick, the civilian hero last time out — though you’d be forgiven for not quite remembering who they all are. Then again, it’s easy to pick up the threads between shoot-outs.