Just in time for tax season, The Accountant is again!
The seemingly most-played film on primary cable of the final 10 years is getting a sequel with authentic star Ben Affleck, plus The Accountant co-stars Jon Brenthal, J.Ok. Simmons, and Cynthia Addai-Robinson. They will all return for the sequel — together with director Gavin O’Connor.
In the unique movie, Affleck performed Christian Wolff, extremely expert accountant by day, lethal murderer by each time he feels prefer it. Also, he was purported to be autistic? It was a singular mixture of parts to make certain.
The movie did fairly nicely in theaters but it surely went on to turn into an enormous hit on dwelling video and on cable, the place I really feel like it’s nonetheless performed not less than 4 instances each single week someplace on the dial. (For some time it appeared prefer it was a daily a part of TNT’s weekly schedule. Every Wednesday evening at 10PM they performed The Accountant.)
According to Deadline, the sequel kicks off “when Medina’s former boss is killed by unknown assassins, and she’s forced to contact Christian to solve the murder. With the help of his estranged but highly lethal brother Brax, Chris applies his brilliant mind and less-than-legal methods to piece together the unsolved puzzle. As they get closer to the truth, the trio draw the attention of some of the most ruthless killers alive — all intent on putting a stop to their search.”
Man, I want my brother was named Brax. That’s a cool as hell title for a brother.
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I used to be no Johnny come currently when The Accountant is concerned. I used to be in on the bottom flooring. You can learn my assessment right here at ScreenCrush to see for your self…
On the plus facet, the film’s motion and combat scenes are higher than common, with fluid choreography and intense violence. The advantage of placing Affleck and his strong physicality on this half is that he can clearly do a whole lot of his personal stunt work, and the shortage of cuts lends a whole lot of credibility to the sequences the place he tears by means of legions of goons with alarming effectivity and lots of, many headshots. It’s type of like John Wick meets a model of Good Will Hunting the place Affleck and Matt Damon determined to modify roles.
I’m totally prepared for The Accountant 2 so long as O’Connor and Affleck are again. Also, there should be extra accounting puns on this one. Affleck ought to say “I’m about to depreciate your assets!” earlier than he karate kicks a dude within the nuts. Stuff like that.
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