1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: Great per flick with Benot Shame. Ben Affleck returns as 2 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 1: Christian Wolf in The Accountant two and he had to 3 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: tell us more Beno Shade, Ben, I can't believe it's 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:12,639 Speaker 1: almost ten years since the first one. 5 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty sixteen, if you can believe it, Smiley and 6 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 2: that first film came out. It was really kind of 7 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:22,599 Speaker 2: like a made for streaming kind of movie that got 8 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 2: moderate reviews at the time. Ben Affleck's performance as a 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 2: neuro divergent accountant for organized crime, so basically he was 10 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 2: on the spectrum and he was called in when a 11 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 2: drug cartel wasn't sure if someone was skimming some money 12 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:43,560 Speaker 2: off the top. So he goes into their books, uncooks 13 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 2: the books, tries and figure out where that money is going. 14 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 2: Or he works for the mob. But these kind of 15 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 2: kind of climbs right, very very dangerous. But he despite that, 16 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 2: he has a very strict moral code and so if 17 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 2: anyone crosses him or does the wrong thing, then he 18 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 2: has to get retribution, completely ignoring the fact that the 19 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 2: people that he's working for a responsible for, you know, 20 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 2: hundreds and hundreds, maybe thousands of deaths. That doesn't bother him. 21 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 2: But you know, like if you don't pay him on time, 22 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 2: that's when he gets pretty kicked off. So which is 23 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:15,840 Speaker 2: why you know, like maybe you know, HNR Block is 24 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 2: better if you need your taxes done than this guy. 25 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 2: But anyway, anyway, and so he was grew up the 26 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 2: son of a military man, had a little brother, and 27 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 2: you get flashbacks in that first movie of his childhood 28 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 2: growing up with autism and then how that shaped him 29 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 2: into the person that he is today, and how he 30 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 2: learned to be this you know, sort of trained killer, 31 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 2: which is kind of it didn't really make a ton 32 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 2: of sense in the first movie, but it was the 33 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 2: action was pretty good. Ben Affleck's performance was solid. And 34 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 2: now along comes the sequel, you know, nearly ten years later, 35 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 2: and it's like, honestly, Ben Affleck didn't even watch the 36 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 2: first movie, and he's done a completely different performance of 37 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 2: the character. It is so bad that I actually question 38 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 2: whether he even knows how to act anymore. It is 39 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 2: it's because the times have changed a lot, right, so 40 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 2: now it's probably not as politically correct for a neurotypical 41 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 2: actor to play a neurodivergent character, and especially you know, 42 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 2: the way Hollywood depicts people with autism. They don't really 43 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 2: represent them on screen at all unless they have some 44 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 2: kind of savulntability. So there's some kind of you know, 45 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:33,839 Speaker 2: amazing computer hacker, or they're a maths genius, or they're 46 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:36,519 Speaker 2: turned into a super soldier like they do in this movie. 47 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 2: And so this film kind of covers off all of 48 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 2: those bases because it uses this special school that Ben 49 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 2: Affleck grew up in in the first movie. All of 50 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 2: the kids going to that school now are his minions 51 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 2: doing his hacking work behind the scenes, so hacking into 52 00:02:54,200 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 2: people's phones and CCTV cameras and US military drones. So 53 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,519 Speaker 2: you've got these ten year old kids hacking into drones 54 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 2: to facilitate extra judicial killings in Mexico. Does that make 55 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:12,839 Speaker 2: any sense? I would say probably not. But the good 56 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 2: thing about this movie is John Bernhal, who people who've 57 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 2: watched The Punisher The Walking Dead, he is amazing. I 58 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 2: love this guy. 59 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: What ad you you got Batman and The Punishers? 60 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly. And so John Bernhal is his Ben 61 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 2: Affleck's little brother, and he made a sort of a 62 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 2: little cameo at the end of the last movie, and 63 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 2: which was probably the best bit of the last movie. 64 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:34,239 Speaker 2: And so fans will be happy to know that he's 65 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 2: pretty much in this whole movie, and it turns it 66 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 2: into a like just a kind of a classic buddy movie. 67 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 2: And the scenes with the two brothers together are by 68 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 2: far the best bits in the movie. But again, I'll 69 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 2: preface that by saying a lot of the humor is 70 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 2: kind of predicated on the idea that autistic people say 71 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 2: things that are funny when they're talking to neurotypical people. 72 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 2: So I don't know, to be honest with you, I 73 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 2: found that a little bit iffy. But John Bernthal's performance 74 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 2: is great, the action is pretty good. Very underrated, I agree, 75 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 2: one hundred percent. He's very very underrated. The plot itself, 76 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 2: you know, like you don't go into a movie like 77 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 2: this expecting an amazing plot, but this one is so convoluted. Well, 78 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 2: I found myself because it's so he is basically called 79 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 2: in to help solve this investigation by you know, the 80 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 2: US Treasury Department, but then it turns into a people 81 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 2: smuggling thing, and then it turns into this other person 82 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 2: who was in a car accident and then developed like 83 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 2: super soldier abilities because they had a brain injury. I 84 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 2: don't know if that's true, but it seems pretty far 85 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 2: fetched to me. And then there's multiple villains and it's 86 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 2: going around in circles. They end up in Mexico at 87 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 2: one point, so a lot of it doesn't make a 88 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 2: lot of sense, right And watching. 89 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: The trailer, I found it looked more fun than the original. 90 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:57,599 Speaker 2: More fun for sure the first one. The first one 91 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 2: was a pretty dour event, you know, like it was 92 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,840 Speaker 2: there wasn't much joy to it. This one probably goes 93 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 2: too far the other way. You know, You've got Ben 94 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 2: Affleck's character speed dating, and of course he's terrible at 95 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 2: it because he's neurodivergent, and so I don't know if 96 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 2: that's really funny, but anyway, that's how the movie pitches it. 97 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 2: And then he's also then he's also bootscooting in a 98 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 2: cowboy bar. But the best bit about that, but the 99 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 2: best bit about that is still John Bernthal, who, of 100 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 2: course the brothers get into a fight with all these 101 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 2: cowboys and John Bernthal looks like he's having the time 102 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 2: of his life, and so he is amazing. The rest 103 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 2: of the film is very questionable. People will still go 104 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:37,479 Speaker 2: to the movies and enjoy this, I think, you know, 105 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 2: like if you are able to kind of park your 106 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 2: brain at the door. You'll probably get something out of it, 107 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 2: just as a kind of a brainless action movie. 108 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 1: I might have rewatched the first one before I see. 109 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 2: The only thing I would say about that is, if 110 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,039 Speaker 2: you rewatch the first one, the difference between afflex performances 111 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 2: between the two almost makes this second one unwatchable. You're 112 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 2: almost better to go don't watch the first one. Normally 113 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 2: I would not advise that, but the movies are so 114 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 2: different in terms of ben Affleck's performance that I don't 115 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 2: think and you don't need to just go in and 116 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 2: watch this as a standalone movie. Take it for what 117 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 2: it is. That's the best way to enjoy it. 118 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: The accounted to gosh, it's almost text on again too, 119 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: isn't it. And then how many buckets of popcorn are 120 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: we giving the accounted two? 121 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 2: I'm gonna only give it two, and both of those 122 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 2: are for John bent Thal. 123 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 1: Well, there you go.