The Accountant 2
Amazon MGM Studios | Release Date: April 25, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 42 Critic Reviews
Positive:
24
Mixed:
14
Negative:
4

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
85
Film ThreatAlan NgApr 30, 2025
The Accountant 2 is a pleasant surprise. It scratches that crime procedural itch, along with paramilitary-style gunplay, for a winning combination. Read full review
80
The TimesKevin MaherMay 9, 2025
Everything ultimately descends into an overblown and hyper-violent firefight south of the border, near Juárez. It is an action movie, after all. But it’s one of the good ones. Read full review
80
IGNSiddhant AdlakhaMar 10, 2025
In The Accountant 2, Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal return for a sentimental, politically charged, and surprisingly funny action sequel about brothers trying their best to connect. Read full review
80
ColliderNate RichardMar 10, 2025
The strange thing about The Accountant 2 is it's not the same gritty action movie that the original was. O'Connor still delivers some top-notch fight scenes, but this sequel, at its very core, is a hang-out movie, complete with a scene of Affleck awkwardly line-dancing at a bar. Yes, you read that right, and yes, it's as great as it sounds. Read full review
80
SlashfilmRyan ScottMar 9, 2025
It's rare that sequels outdo what came before, but O'Connor manages to do so here. This is pure popcorn entertainment, executed effectively. Read full review
78
The Daily BeastNick SchagerApr 23, 2025
A brutal buddy film pairing Affleck’s killer with his equally murderous brother, it locates the humor in its mayhem and, for it, proves a superior sequel in every respect. Read full review
75
Original-CinJohn KirkApr 24, 2025
It’s predictable but entertaining. Unrealistic, but it doesn’t affect the story too much. The relationship between Braxton and Christian has changed from the first film, but it’s a welcome, feel-good change in a story with lots of guns and an epic battle. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesKatie WalshApr 24, 2025
The Accountant delivered a dependable ‘90s-style throwback action thriller and “The Accountant 2” is much the same, though it embraces a looser, more amusing tone, while playing in a story sandbox that looks like our world, with our issues: immigration, human trafficking, organized crime. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMichael OrdoñaApr 23, 2025
The convoluted plot will leave viewers with some unanswered questions, should they pull at its threads, but it’s a good bet they’ll likely leave well enough alone after being so entertained. Read full review
75
LooperDominic GriffinApr 23, 2025
It's at once a fun and crowd-pleasing picture in that classic's vein as well as an extrapolation of what worked so well in the last outing.  Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzApr 23, 2025
The easy back-and-forth chemistry between Affleck and Bernthal as they paint the town blood-red provides certain dividends. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyJordan HoffmanApr 17, 2025
The ludicrousness on display here is enormous. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithApr 25, 2025
It’s a bloody comedy that’s also a buddy comedy. Read full review
70
TimeStephanie ZacharekApr 24, 2025
The Accountant 2 is not, and is not trying to be, a movie about the realities of autism. Even so, it challenges us to think about how our brains work, why we do and say the things we do—and to recognize that even though we may think there’s a normal way to respond to social cues, not everyone is wired the same way. Read full review
70
The New York TimesManohla DargisApr 24, 2025
All that counts in The Accountant 2 is that it’s adroitly paced, unburdened by narrative logic (there are almost as many coincidences as corpses) and buoyed by its well-synced, charismatic leads. Read full review
70
Screen RantGraeme GuttmannMar 12, 2025
Its charms grew on me so fast that I couldn't help but love almost everything about it, logic be damned. Read full review
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanMar 9, 2025
The Accountant 2 is an agreeably loopy hyperviolent good time. Read full review
70
Screen DailyTim GriersonMar 9, 2025
There’s a B-movie purity to how this franchise conducts its business, eschewing the flash of modern blockbusters for a more pummelling, elemental approach to its shootouts and hand-to-hand fight scenes. On top of that, The Accountant 2 has added a winning sense of humour to the equation. Read full review
67
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerApr 23, 2025
That’s the true power of Affleck and Bernthal’s collective charm offensive: They can make a junky story about a computer-brained savior of human-trafficking victims resemble a whimsical hangout session. Read full review
67
ConsequenceLiz Shannon MillerApr 23, 2025
While The Accountant 2 isn’t a wholly successful movie, or a wholly successful depiction of autism, it does at least spotlight an autistic character who lives a full life and seems content — who does, in fact, date and do his taxes. It’s not a triumph of representation, but it’s got a better understanding of the subject matter than some government officials do. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 25, 2025
It’s not particularly ambitious and there’s barely a hint of “breaks from formula” in it. But in The Accountant 2, it’s not the individual numbers that matter. It’s how it all adds up. Read full review
63
USA TodayBrian TruittApr 24, 2025
Let Jason Statham wreck dudes with “The Beekeeper” and “A Working Man,” and let Affleck be a role model for empathetic masculinity – who can still wreck dudes if needed – with “The Accountant” movies. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonApr 23, 2025
I’m tired of this stereotypical depiction of autism. It’s as if Hollywood has to assign superpowers to people on the spectrum in order for them to be accepted by mainstream audiences. Read full review
63
The Associated PressJake CoyleApr 22, 2025
For a movie about a detail obsessive, it’s curiously messy. But — and this might matter more — the film has a reasonably firm sense of just how serious and how knowingly silly a movie about an uber-talented accountant ought to be. Read full review
60
The TelegraphRobbie CollinApr 25, 2025
The plotting meanders its way to the very brink of incoherence, but as the scenes tick past, the vague sense of a many-tendrilled mystery being solved does gradually descend. Read full review
60
EmpireKim NewmanApr 24, 2025
Affleck and Bernthal make a funny, if morally dubious, double act, as Christian’s autism lets sociopathic hit man Brax think of himself as the ‘normal’ brother. Best bit: the line-dancing scene. Read full review
60
Little White LiesHannah StrongApr 24, 2025
Ultimately the mash-up of genres doesn’t quite come together in a satisfactory manner, clashing to the point of whiplash. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreMar 9, 2025
The new movie leans into comedy in ways that veer toward the cutesy — Chris at a speed dating event, Chris at a line-dancing night — but the scenes of the brothers together are great, providing glimpses of the co-dependent boys they were before they grew into trauma-stunted men who regularly commit acts of bloodshed. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeMar 9, 2025
For the most part though, O’Connor’s direction is disciplined. He wrings humor from nearly every moment by staging action scenes as blunt as Christian’s commentary and employing transitions as precise as the accountant’s aim. Read full review
60
The GuardianAdrian HortonMar 9, 2025
That’s mostly for the better. The Accountant 2 is a more fun affair than The Accountant, if you’re a fan of very loud shoot ’em ups, nonsensical crime webs and rogue good guys fighting obviously very bad guys, though this outing is sadly missing Anna Kendrick. Read full review
58
IndieWireChristian ZilkoMar 9, 2025
It manages to offer more heart and more laughs the second time around. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliApr 25, 2025
The movie works when focused on character interaction and buddy-movie tropes, but the action elements are perfunctory at best and boring at worst. Bill Dubuque’s script is never able to balance out the ledger. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsApr 24, 2025
Given its premise, you wouldn’t expect The Accountant 2 to go for quite so much buddy comedy, but life is full of surprises. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineDerek SmithApr 18, 2025
As The Accountant 2 drags out to over two hours, and its two storylines remain tonally at war with one another, it becomes increasingly clear that, two films in, this series still hasn’t figured out exactly what it wants to be. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoMar 9, 2025
The truth is that pacing often trumps realism, and The Accountant 2 just doesn’t build enough momentum. Read full review
40
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyApr 25, 2025
The bigger crisis at the heart of the film is its inability to justify why we should have come back here in the first place. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesAmy NicholsonApr 25, 2025
This go-round, everything’s louder and more banal. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerApr 24, 2025
Peeking its head out from this pile of trash is the ghost of one of the year’s most wildly entertaining movies. Read full review
37
Washington PostAnn HornadayApr 23, 2025
Brax’s knuckles may be perpetually bared, but his heart’s always in the right place, which “The Accountant 2” spares nothing to remind us, even while the mayhem escalates into sheer outlandishness. Read full review
33
The PlaylistChase HutchinsonMar 9, 2025
There is a winning buddy comedy deep inside The Accountant 2, but it’s buried under so much tedious meandering that it never gets to fully see the light of day. Read full review
30
Rolling StoneA.A. DowdApr 25, 2025
Affleck doesn’t sell it this time. He’s too busy going for the easy laugh. And so the supposed fun of the movie just doesn’t add up, like a long equation with a missing number. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubJacob OllerApr 23, 2025
The sequel sticks Affleck and Jon Bernthal in a sitcom episode surrounded by a Sound Of Freedom-style macho fantasy—call it Gun Sheldon. It’s a terrible combination that buries the rapport of its leads in chaotic action, troubling worldviews, and increasingly generic plotting. Read full review
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