SPOILERS BELOW
The first Accountant was okay, a weird mix of genres where it seemed to want to be a Tom McCarthy film more than a Jason Statham-esque 'hyper-competent greyhat works his way up a baddy chain' movie, and the portrayal of the lead character's autism, as far as I could tell, was nothing too egregious.
The sequel is terrible. All the dialogue is so much worse, and the quiet character drama stuff has been replaced with a knock-off version of Rain Man by way of Dumb And Dumber, where Bernthal's efficient terse mercenary is now a motormouth with so many wacky bits that he comes across as autistic as well and Affleck's character learns to line dance, and there's a load of really goofy stuff around the edges like the care home of autistic child super-hackers (led by Affleck's friend from the first one who has been recast and retooled to be prettier, less severely autistic and wearing standard hacker fingerless gloves) and the rival assassin who also is a savant, except she got it from head trauma and is a savant in survival which means a) she's suddenly amazing at all combat ever and b) she has amnesia because her brain decided you don't need memories for survival.
The action is well-directed but also nothing new or interesting, mostly just big dudes in body armour shooting automatic weapons at each other in the desert. Though kudos for giving JK Simmons an almost-convincing hand-to-hand combat scene.
Rating: clunky and cartoonish
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