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Wednesday, November 9, 2016

The Accountant




The Accountant

With a boring name, The Accountant delivers on the action and intrigue. One of the better action flicks of the year, Ben Affleck rebounds after the dud of Batman V Superman to remind us he still has the skills. While the plot can be a stretch at its convenience at times, once one removes the stigma of the improbability of an autistic man becoming an accountant for the black-market kings of the world, it makes a lot of sense. The film follows Christian Wolfe (Ben Affleck) a heavily autistic accountant raised by a militaristic father who felt his autism was a crutch. Through brutal lessons and overexposure to triggers, Wolfe is turned into a high functioning autistic machine. Now a well-known in some circles as accountant for the underworld, cooking the books for mafia bosses, dictators and the like, he keeps a low profile as a small business tax consultant. Things go sideways when he is asked to uncool the books of a Private prosthetic company about to go public. Anna Kendrick plays the naive CBA who unintentionally found the error that brings Wolfe in to investigate and sets the whole drama in motion. There are plenty of things that are predictable in the film but they are all good natured and if you’re not paying attention they may seek up on you. You may just be too involved in the story to worry about what's coming next as I was. When Hollywood needed a solid action film to remain relevant, they have found it with the Accountant. Sometimes it’s best to go back to the basics and go with what you know. 3 pipes out of 4.

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