The Accountant 2 Is Shockingly Funny & These 5 Moments Had Me Laughing Out Loud

Warning: SPOILERS for The Accountant 2. With all of the action and suspense one might expect from a movie like The Accountant 2, it’s surprising just how far it goes to outdo the first movie’s sense of humor. Nearly everyone in The Accountant 2's cast gets at least one humorous moment to shine, although the bulk of those moments certainly go to Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal. If the sequel’s evolution is anything to go on, then The Accountant 3 should wind up being even more hilarious. In fact, this has been one of many contributing factors to the largely positive nature of The Accountant 2’s reviews. The first movie certainly had its moments, but the sequel’s increased focus on Chris and Braxton’s relationship allows for numerous fun interactions. Braxton was already the more fun of the two in the first movie, and now he has a greater spotlight on him. That said, he certainly isn’t carrying all of the film’s most hilarious beats. 5 The Entire Country Bar Sequence, Including Ben Affleck’s Dance His Analytical Mind Makes Him One Heck Of A Line Dancer When Braxton suggests getting drunk in Los Angeles, he’s expecting Chris to take him to a night club. Instead, he winds up at a cowboy bar listening to Chris ask if the house band knows “Enter Sandman” by Metallica. This entire conversation is funny, but the scene really picks up when Chris gets jealous that his crush is dancing next to another guy. It takes him a minute, but Christian starts picking up on the fact that dancing is really just math translated into rhythm and memory. Related Ben Affleck's Dance Scene In The Accountant 2 Was So Unexpected, But I Loved It Ben Affleck's Christian Wolff surprisingly joins in on a line dance in The Accountant 2, and it's easily one of the best scenes in the sequel. Considering Anna Kendrick’s absence in The Accountant 2, it’s nice to see Chris putting himself out there to get a woman’s number. Ben Affleck’s dance has charm, but Braxton’s role in the scene nearly steals the show. Watching Braxton see Chris dance is almost as entertaining as watching the dance itself, and it really pays off with the fight at the end. The trailers cleverly hid the fact that Chris literally asks a man to hit him just so Braxton will have an excuse to beat somebody up. It puts a nice cherry on an already wonderful sequence. 4 Chris Getting Impatient With Medina He Basically Implies That She’s Slow Cynthia Addai-Robinson’s Marybeth Medina made it pretty clear in the first movie that she wasn’t comfortable taking tips from criminals, so her reunion with Chris was always going to require significant motivation. The death of J.K. Simmons’ Raymond King in The Accountant 2 does the trick. After Medina tracks him down, Chris winds up spending the night in Ray’s old house as he and Medina piece together a wall of evidence regarding the case Ray was working when he got killed. Related Why Christian Wolff Repeats The Solomon Grundy Rhyme In The Accountant Movies Chris Wolff recites the Solomon Grundy nursery rhyme in both The Accountant movies, but he does so under similar circumstances each time. However, if it wasn’t clear from his wall-to-wall equations in the first movie, Chris has his own way of doing things. He doesn’t actively chastise Medina’s method of arranging evidence, but he noisily drums his fingers the whole time she’s setting things up. When asked what he’s doing, he simply responds that he’s waiting for her to finish whatever she thinks she’s doing so that he can do what he needs to do. His blunt response is unexpectedly funny. When she wakes up the next day, Chris has rearranged everything she’s done to fit a pattern he finds more useful. 3 Braxton Practicing For His Phone Call With Margaret It Sets Up One Of The Movie’s Best Subplots One of the first hysterical scenes in the movie is simply Braxton repeating “Hi, Margaret” into a mirror in varying tones while becoming increasingly agitated, to the point that he has to hold his gun just to calm himself down. It sounds at first as if he might be preparing for a date or a meeting with an ex, but the scene’s great reveal is that Braxton is simply nervous about buying Margaret’s Corgi puppy. Related The Accountant 2 Ending Explained: What Happens To Christian & Braxton The Accountant 2's mission for Christian and Braxton Wolfe throws the pair into a wild mission that sets up a lot of potential spin-off directions. Since the long gap between The Accountant and The Accountant 2, Braxton’s apparently realized he’s lonely. This becomes a plotline throughout the entire film, with Braxton announcing his puppy plans to his brother only to have Chris tell him that he’s actually a cat person because he has no friends and doesn’t keep a regular schedule. This winds up paying off at the very end of the movie as well, so the “Hi, Margaret” scene essentially becomes the movie’s longest-running joke thread. 2 Chris & Braxton’s Phone Call The Lightsaber Is A Cute Touch At the end of the first movie, Chris told Braxton that he’d call him in a week so they could meet up. But despite the refusal of nearly anybody in the cast to physically age, the sequel’s timeline acknowledges the eight years that have passed since the first movie’s release. It therefore follows that Braxton’s a bit displeased when Chris finally rings him up while casually playing with a lightsaber, not to socialize but rather because he and Medina need some extra muscle. Related The Accountant 2's Major Character Recast Explained A single recasting choice in The Accountant 2 changes several things about the movie, making a difference both in front of and behind the camera. Christian’s failure to understand why Braxton is angry adds a lot of humor to the scene, but there’s another humorous twist as well. Braxton appears to be on a date when Chris calls, but it’s soon revealed that the young woman in Braxton’s company is actually the sole person he’s left alive after murdering everyone in her house. It’s uncommon for a movie to elicit a chuckle from the reveal of several dead bodies, but The Accountant 2 pulls it off. 1 Medina Realizing A Criminal Is Still In The Car Trunk Not The Kind Of Thing You Typically Forget About Long before their investigation leads to the reveal of The Accountant 2’s acquired savant syndrome and its importance to their search, Medina draws a clear boundary that she wants to handle the investigation lawfully. She’s therefore somewhat miffed when Braxton punches a criminal enforcer off of a balcony and locks him in her trunk. When she later finds out that Braxton committed several of the murders Ray attributed to Anaïs, she breaks things off with the brothers completely. Related The Accountant vs. The Accountant 2: Which Ben Affleck Movie Is Better The long-awaited sequel to Affleck's 2016 late-blooming action hit picked up the threads of the first movie, but with a significant tonal shift. In her haste to drive off, however, Medina completely forgets that the enforcer is still in her trunk. It’s only when she’s driven a few yards away that she’s startled by the sound of him banging against the car and shouting for help. Although she’s more or less the moral center of The Accountant 2, it apparently hadn’t occurred to her for what seems like at least twelve hours that she might want to let him out for air at some point.

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