Curious concerning the hype round The Accountant 2, I lastly watched the 2016 unique — and actually, I’m shocked it even received a 53% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Accountant follows Christian, an autistic accountant-by-day, criminal-financier-by-night, and makes about as a lot ethical sense as a fortune cookie written by a sociopath.
As somebody exterior the disabled group, I received’t lecture Hollywood on who ought to be writing tales about autism, or casting neurotypical actors in autistic roles. However I’ll say, if you happen to’re going to do it, might you not less than make it good? Watching a monotonous Ben Affleck deadpan his method by means of clunky “stims” and hole dialogue was bodily painful. Christian wasn’t simply flat, he was a cardboard cutout of a personality with some math issues taped to it.
Then there was his overcompensating alpha-male dad, a strolling ‘rub-some-dirt-on-it’ navy stereotype so absurd I laughed out loud greater than as soon as.
How anybody purchased this lazy mashup of drained tropes in 2016, not to mention cares sufficient to observe a sequel in 2025, is past me.
