THE ACCOUNTANT 2 [2025] MOVIE REVIEW - WHEN GIRL BOSS B.S. TAKES OVER A FRANCHISE

 If you want to see what it is like to have an unnecessary 90-pound Girl Boss inserted into a movie and given super-neuro-enhanced chess-playing & ass-kicking powers for no legit reason, then watch The Accountant 2 Movie.

Yes, there will be spoilers = you have been warned :)

The movie stars Ben Affleck [Batman] and Jon Bernthal [Punisher], who definitely didn't need the slim overpowered plus-ultra Girl Boss, played by Daniela Pineda. And this silent but deadly Latina literally has super strength and stamina, despite her small stature.

This one feels like a buddy-cop movie that consigns its two main leads to the gray area; since neither of them is a clean-cut upright officer of the law, and they both break the rules to get things done on the streets. Affleck is a mob-sponsored accountant with some sort of disorder [allegedly autism spectrum] that makes him a super-smart, antisocial, nerdy ultra-violent geek. And his brother Jon is a hitman for the mafia who works all over the world, for anyone that will write his check. And the two brothers reunite to find the killer of Ben's older friend and mentor, played by JK Simmons.

Plus Ben and Jon are helped along in their quest to find the truth by another semi-girl boss character... played by Cynthia Addai-Robinson, shown on the right... well, OK, she's not an annoying boss type, she is more of a skeptical go-by-the-book female buddy-cop, who tries to help you on your quest. And Cynthia seems to be genuinely amazed by the level of intelligence [and violence] that Ben employs, in order to gets his tasks done efficiently. 

And eventually, the sniper-killer of JK is tied to a band of Latin-American mafia thugs who are operating a long-standing child-kidnapping and child labor ring, and they also kill and bury the kidnapped kids or their parents in mass graves when they need to do so.

And apparently, the constantly stoic Girl Boss and her small Latin-American family [her husband and daughter] were broken apart by the mafia thugs many years ago. So after her car accident that damages her brain, and the neuro surgery that turns her into a bad-ass killing machine, the Girl Boss becomes a hired international high-level hitman, I mean hitwoman, and she is slowly hunting down those that destroyed her family, as her past memory seems to gradually return. And towards the beginning of the flick, she "works with" some assassins that kill JK Simmons as he leaves a bar, not for finding the whereabouts of her missing daughter, but for finding her... and that makes no sense, because she did want to find her missing daughter, whom Simmons showed her in an old picture as they sat together inside the bar [She and Simons are shown seated in the bar, in the pic on the left]. 

The excuse that the Girl Boss' memory about her daughter hadn't returned yet at this point in the bar scene is invalid, because the entire movie plays out in no less than 3 days; and by the third day, Girl Boss is holding the same picture that shows her late husband and her late daughter, as she grab a knife and gets set to avenge them and kill her final target.

The action scenes were fun, sometimes with fists and other times with guns and automatic rifles. And there are several 1-on-1 talking scenes that play out as short drama skits designed to draw you in, emotionally or psychologically... but they last for way too long, and some don't hit the mark, in this 2 hour 14 minute long action-drama-detective movie.

Some jarring / inconclusive stuff in the movie:
Near the end, Ben gets shot in the upper chest, and the bullet never gets taken out, and he is fine, less than 5 minutes later [or was it 5 days later? we're not told].
Ben Affleck's character gets the phone number of a hot black chick at a bar, and that goes nowhere.
Ben had a chance to kill the Girl Boss, who has been killing people throughout the movie, but he lets her go... so that she can go find her dead kidnapped daughter?? Or something??
Later, Girl Boss is helped by the good-cop woman Cynthia, whom she brutally beat up and stabbed, to find the coordinates in Costa Rica of the sponsor of the Girl Boss' kidnapped daughter's killer. That's a mouthful, but that's what they did in the damn movie. And Girl Boss finally gest her revenge... off camera, since the scene ends with her picking up a knife and walking after her half-naked male target [the old man had just gotten out of a shower, with a towel wrapped around his waist. And he couldn't be a strong young man that could fight her and kick her ass, because that would make her a Weak Girl Boss and destroy her strong narrative].
The movie also ends before the actually ending, and per the words of the two male leads in the final driving scene, they still had two places left to go.
-Sigh - You may like it, if you watch it on a lazy weekend afternoon. But sorry, I can't recommend this one.