Film Review - The Accountant 2 (2025)

The Accountant 2 is the long delayed sequel to the surprise 2016 hit the Accountant and once more Ben Affleck returns as Christian Wolff who is tasked by financial officer Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) to find a lost child but dark forces are also looking for him so Christian has to reach out to his estranged brother Braxton (Jon Bernthal) to help him.

The Accountant 2 was a sequel idea I had mixed feelings about as I really liked the first film in 2016 for its action, its heart and a compelling lead character in Christian Wolff who was an assassin but also lived with Autism and my fear with any potential sequel was that that core aspect of his character would either be stripped out or toned down to appeal this series to a wider audience like the John Wick films have had.

Thankfully that isn’t the case as the Accountant 2 is well worth the wait and is as good a movie as the first one and huge kudos has to be given to Ben Affleck, director Gavin O’Connor (who should be considered for the MCU X-Men movie) and writer Bill Dubuque as they have firstly and most importantly kept Christian as who he is, yes he’s done work for bad people but he is also on the Autism spectrum and that is given more focus here in terms of his social interactions which were there in the first film but not to this extent and I am very thankful for that.

Also boosted is Jon Bernthal’s role as Braxton and he and Affleck have great chemistry together as both brothers trying to bond together as well as action heroes, both are well trained in the deadly arts and their combat experiences are shown well in the films action scenes which have the same precision that they did in the first film.

The storytelling here is also improved as it feels not only more focused but doesn’t get bogged down in a big exposition dump which happened in the first film and really hurt that movie especially towards the end, here the storytelling is cleaner/more focused and also makes time for humour and surprisingly this movie is very funny at times one scene in particular got a big laugh from my cinema audience.

And so that was the Accountant 2 and this sequel does not disappoint, it hasn’t forgotten who Christian Wolff is as a character, the storytelling is improved and it has good action and humour, another big recommendation, 4 out of 5.