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The Accountant boasts an appealing central performance from the redoubtable Ben Affleck, but is elsewhere lumbered with sluggish pacing, a surfeit of narrative detail, implausible The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review. Hollywood is so obsessed with superhero movies these days it made one about a crusading accountant. It's called The Accountant, and it is indeed about a guy who prepares people's taxes, looks for deductions, and monitors financial records for fraud.
The Accountant is committed to a pretense of difference. Its protagonist, Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck), is autistic. As he explains, he has trouble understanding what other people are thinking, he can't pick up on social cues, he gets deeply absorbed in tasks - especially mathematical tasks - and he panics. Review of the Ben Affleck Thriller 'The Accountant'. After he kills someone, the accountant should say "You've been accounted for," and then proceed to make a detailed invoice. A thriller that is about as exciting as its title.
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Affleck plays Christian Wolff, an autistic accountant trained in martial arts (as any accountant worth his salt is). Christian's struggles with social cues, bullies and getting absorbed in mathematics are shown in a series of. In that regard, the movie is mostly successful.
The Accountant features a strong performance by Affleck, but it ultimately comes off as an Chris Agar is a news editor for Screen Rant, also writing features and movie reviews for the site as one of Screen Rant's Rotten Tomatoes approved critics. The hook of Gavin O'Connor's The Accountant is both compelling and absurd: Ben Affleck plays Christian Wolff, a mathematics savant on the autism spectrum. He helps criminal organizations launder money with his sick ledger skills but also happens to have sick murder skills. It's totally chill, though. 'The Accountant' Review: Ben Affleck's Ridiculous, WTF Thriller Doesn't Add Up.