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.
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.