The Accountant

Movie Review
Release on: Oct 14, 2016

Movie name	:	The Accountant
Genres	:	Crime, Drama, Thriller
Run time	:	128 min
Produced by	:	Lynette Howell Taylor
Directed by	:	Gavin O'Connor
Music by	:	Mark Isham
Writers	:	Bill Dubuque
Cinematography	:	Seamus McGarvey
Edited by	:	Richard Pearson
Countries	:	USA

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Stars : Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Tambor, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, John Lithgow, Jean Smart, Andy Umberger, Alison Wright, Jason Davis, Robert C. Treveiler, Mary Kraft, Seth Lee, Jake Presley, Izzy Fenech, Ron Prather, Susan Williams, Gary Basaraba, Fernando Chien, Alex Collins, Tait Fletcher, Curtis Lyons, Buster Reeves, Ron Yuan, Sheila Maddox, Malachi Malik, Gregory Alan Williams, Kelly Collins Lintz, Jason MacDonald, Victor McCay, Michael Beasley, Viviana Chavez, Greg Sproles, Alex Huynh, Jade Bartlett, Joe Hardy Jr., Carrie L. Walrond, Roman Spink, David Anthony Buglione, Rick Moose, Nick Arapoglou, Angela Davis, Johnny Giacalone, Richard Pearson, Eric Goins, David De Vries, Randall Taylor, Scott Poythress, Nicholas Martin, Samantha Janco, Joseph Levine, Cesar Mendoza, Zachary James Rukavina, Robert T. McKnight II, Angel Giuffria, Robert Kistenberg, Robert Hatch, Johnathan Blake, Jessica Marie C., Steve Carr Jr., Jerry Cashman, Jason Claspell, Anthony Collins, Daniel DiVenere, Gerald Duckworth, Daeg Faerch, Mark Falvo, Gregory Fears, Tahseen Ghauri, Jonathan Gibbons, Wesley Gordon, Keith Ham, Boualem Hassaine, Walter Hendrix III, Geoffrey Howard, Kimberly Hester Huffstetler, Scott Hunter, Alphonso A'Qen-Aten Jackson, Duke Jackson, Dennis Keiffer, Slim Khezri, Noah Hudson Killingbeck, Inder Kumar, Scott Ledbetter, Bruce Locke, Trey McGriff, Richard Molina, Richard Morava, Brian Neal, Amir Perets, Petra Post, Jay Romero, Lisa Shirley, Crystal Spurlock, Doug Stroup, Leigh Takata, Jawad Talpur, Ruben Vidal, Ronald Wallace, Keonia Williams, Alex Zelenka

Story : Christian Wolff is a math savante with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King, starting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise.

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You can totally forgive Ben Affleck for being an uninspiring Batman, for he is terrific here. As a troubled genius, who shoots criminals and does the math with equal aplomb, an understated Affleck is a delight to watch. He is a killing machine with a moral code.

Wolff finds it difficult to socialise and makes no eye contact with people, unless he wants to kill them. The actor portrays this complex bipolar trait with a fine subtlety. There is no top of the lungs screaming happening or antics evoking empathy and yet he strikes a chord with you.

The film is refreshingly unique and weird in its own way, just like its stoic protagonist. While it’s predominantly a crime thriller, it’s also an emotional drama, tracing the tumultuous personal life of a man, who loves his family. He does the right things the wrong way and isn’t apologetic about it.

Right from its grim cinematography, unhurried pacing and ambiguous setting to the story’s melancholic undertones, The Accountant is a riveting case study. The movie is a close observation of a man, who has endured pain and longing for years to make peace with who he is. The quirky Anna Kendrick injects her trademark humour in an otherwise dark proceedings.

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The Accountant

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