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The Accountant 2 | Average Guy Movie Review

When Ray King is murdered, Deputy Director Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) reluctantly calls upon Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) and his brother, Braxton (Jon Bernthal) to help figure out what Ray was working on, and find his killer.  To the more cynical among us, the return of Christian Wolff could be described as just another Hollywood cash-grab - falling back on a successful property that doesn't really need a sequel, just to see if they can milk anything more out of it. And while it is true that we weren't exactly screaming for a sequel, thanks to his efficiency at both accounting and dispatching of villains, it's not exactly unwelcome either. The Accountant 2  begins exactly as you'd imagine (whether you knew the plot or not); with the death of one of the first movie's beloved characters. After all, how else are you going to get the band back together? From there our unhappy gathering of law enforcement and law-breakers bicker over how to go about findi...