The Accountant (2016)
2016
R
128 Minutes
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.
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"The Accountant" is one of those few successful movies which comes every year that presents an origin story not based from an existing action-hero or comic book - where the titular character has these absurdist action skills and ninja moves to take on a secret organization of thugs and mobsters. For instance, 2014's "John Wick" and "The Equalizer" resulted to follow-ups (John Wick: Chapter 2 & The Equalizer 2). Does this movie work as a great addition to crime-thrillers or fail to distinguish itself from its peers?
If you think having sniper shooting skills and hand-to-hand combat moves is insane, watch out for our title character's brilliance in accounting. Ben Affleck's Christian Wolff is intense, brilliant, yet socially awkward due to his autism spectrum disorder. And the movie flashes back to Wolff's troubled childhood to fill in the gap of his origin story. This unusually complex narrative from Bill Dubuque is refreshing in many ways to the crime-thriller genre.
While we're speaking of crime-thriller movies, though, The Accountant also has more than a hint of "No Country for Old Men" about it. Not unlike Tommy Lee Jones (with his partner) in this 2009 film, JK Simmons (also, with his partner) play law enforcers to find a mysterious man (Bardem & Affleck) - one suffers from psychosis, and the other, autism.
VERDICT: The Accountant is a movie that's intense on action, complex on storytelling, and feels like a smart crime-thriller, with a mixture of numbers and mentality.1 member likes this review.
