Excited about ‘The Accountant 2’? We Need To Talk.

Should they even be making this sequel?

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Curious about the hype around The Accountant 2, I finally watched the 2016 original — and honestly, I’m stunned it even got a 53% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Accountant follows Christian, an autistic accountant-by-day, criminal-financier-by-night, and makes about as much moral sense as a fortune cookie written by a sociopath.

As someone outside the disabled community, I won’t lecture Hollywood on who should be writing stories about autism, or casting neurotypical actors in autistic roles. But I will say, if you’re going to do it, could you at least make it good? Watching a monotonous Ben Affleck deadpan his way through clunky “stims” and hollow dialogue was physically painful. Christian wasn’t just flat, he was a cardboard cutout of a character with some math problems taped to it.

Then there was his overcompensating alpha-male dad, a walking ‘rub-some-dirt-on-it’ military stereotype so absurd I laughed out loud more than once.

How anyone bought this lazy mashup of tired tropes in 2016, let alone cares enough to watch a sequel in 2025, is beyond me.


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Benjamin Pratt

Benjamin is a lover of poetry, live theater, and great movies. He lives at home with his cactus collection and fiancé.

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