The Accountant 2 

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The Accountant 2 is a good, and overall enjoyable movie. Though it has issues in realism, its acting shines through.

I was introduced to the Accountant movie series out of curiosity, as I wondered how a movie seemingly about math and numbers could garner a large amount of attention from the public. In fact, the movie grossed $103.2 million as of June 2025, and had nearly 80 million viewers in its first 28 days of being released.

Christian Wolff is seemingly an everyday accountant who lives in a trailer park living his day to day life. He was diagnosed with a high-functioning form of autism and is also an autistic savant (meaning he has exceptional abilities stemming from his autism), leading him to living a mostly solitude life away from others. In the first movie, he works as a freelancing accountant for criminal organizations, leading to discovering a huge amount of money being embezzled out of an organization he worked for, which leads him on an investigative manhunt to find the real reason. He realizes his brother was part of the mercenary team sent to stop him, and they fight, but decide to team up after they realize that they were being controlled by money. In the end, they decide to meet up in a week’s time to discuss their lives.

The second movie follows the lives of the two brothers meeting back up. 

Christian begins the movie by having Medina introduce him to a scandal involving the assasination of the former Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, a division of the U.S. Treasury Department. Despite knowing his ruthless criminal backstory she still brings him into the investigation. This creates an unrealistic scenario, as protocols and other guidelines make it unrealistic to have a convicted murderer, especially a hitman, from being involved in such an investigation.

Another issue in the plot is the realism in tactical scenes, like near the ending. They sent two “experienced” operators to raid an entire compound? It is extremely unlikely that any government agency would risk two operators’ lives by themselves and not send an actual tactical team to the compound. 

Additionally, during such scenes the two main characters lack helmets, using only vests, which is even more unrealistic for them to not wear while raiding a heavily defended compound.

Whilst the overall realism can be an issue, I see the acting as good and it seemed like they put work into it. For example, there is a  scene in a club where they dance to the country song, and another where they are relaxing on the roof of their trailer just hanging out as two brothers.

The club scene, where they dance and have fun while they listen to music, shows a brotherly and a familiar love between them, which is rarely expressed due to Christian’s autism.

While the film’s overall realism may be a concern, the acting stands out as proper, showing clear effort.