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.
