THE ACCOUNTANT 2 (2025) Movie Reaction! | First Time Watch! | Ben Affleck | Jon Bernthal

Finally! Another Accountant with Dakota Fanning🙊

I hope they make a third sequel in the future. Because Ben Affleck & Jon Bernthal never had a trilogy before.

26:32 - When the decision to make a sequel happened, they decided to have an actual neurodivergent actress portray her character.

I have high functioning autism and I can confirm that Anaïs/Edith Sanchez being so talented at fighting is actually something that is more common than you’d think amongst autistic people. I studied taekwondo when I was 7 and didn’t study martial arts again until I was 17. On my first day of meeting my new sensei at the new dojo after he saw me copy his first lessons perfectly he asked me how long I had been studying martial arts for, I said not since I was 7. He looked stunned because he said he thought I had been studying it my whole life. Martial arts as well as dancing is all about pattern recognition, timing, technique, and repetition. To this day, I’ve memorized so many fighting techniques from so many action movies, martial arts documentaries, as well as professional fights, that I can (with zero ego or bravado in the statement) defend myself and others from practically anyone. Also, Anaïs/Edith Sanchez’s condition (Acquired Savant Syndrome) is not something the movie made up, it’s actually real and there are documented cases of it you can find online. The reason why it’s still not as well known as other mental conditions is because the circumstances that cause that syndrome are such a one in 1 billion shot that there’s far two people to do a broad enough study on it.

All this movie did for me was show that an Army of Two movie is 1000000% possible

As a cat dad myself I know EXACTLY how Braxton felt throughout this movie. I’ve always grown up as more of a dog lover, but I’ve also loved and grew up with cats. So two years ago when I tried to convince my landlady to let me adopt a dog for my place, she compromised by saying she had a friend of a friend who just had a litter of kittens that she was looking to give away, so she said “why not get a cat and foster it for a while and see if that will work out for you as well”. I said to myself that I would foster the cat for maybe a couple of weeks and then inevitably adopt a dog. Once I met this incredibly tiny 8 week old diluted calico kitten with an orange stripe going from her nose to the to the back of her head I was completely powerless. I adopted her as soon as I held her and she climbed onto and sat my shoulder like a bird on a perch. Her name is Korra (yes after The Legend Of Korra, because she’s fiery, energetic, and loves to scrap; but also has an incredibly kind and caring heart) and she has changed my life. Also, all the reasons that Christian listed as to why Braxton would make a better cat person are 100% true about me, which is why I laugh my ass off every time I see that scene.

The performance element you thought was added for this film was present in the first one. But he only uses it when he lets his guard down. So he uses it more in the first one when he gets excited or comfortable manly in the scenes with Anna Kendrick. Because most of the scenes are with his brother in the one. He feels safe and lets more of his natural instincts out. Also after the previous film, he realises that having someone in your life to be comfortable with is something he wants. Hence the speed dating to show growth instead of listening to heavy metal music with strobe lighting and physical self punishment

55:47 she doesn’t relate to that version of herself anymore. She’s an assassin for hire, she wouldn’t be able to get her child back and live a normal life with him after all of those years, and her husband is gone. She can’t go back but she can get her revenge on the man that caused it all.

Two questions! Anything else you'd want Jaby & Alli to watch? And anything you really wanna see Alli watch just in general?

The new Justine is played by Allison Robertson who is actually HF Autistic in real life. A real inspiration to us.