The Accountant is a 2016 American action thriller film directed by Gavin O’Connor, written by Bill Dubuque and starring Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Tambor and John Lithgow. The film follows a small town certified public accountant who makes his living cooking the books for dangerous criminal organizations.
Movie Details :
- Directed by : Gavin O’Connor
- Produced by : Lynette Howell Taylor, Mark Williams
- Written by : Bill Dubuque
- Starring : Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J. K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Tambor, John Lithgow
- Music by : Mark Isham
- Cinematography : Seamus McGarvey
- Edited by : Richard Pearson
- Production companies : Electric City Entertainment, Advanced Underwriting Concepts, RatPac Entertainment, Zero Gravity Management
- Distributed by : Warner Bros. Pictures
Plot :
Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is a mathematics savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Using a small-town CPA office as a cover, he makes his living as a forensic accountant for dangerous criminal organizations. With a Treasury agent (J.K. Simmons) hot on his heels, Christian takes on a state-of-the-art robotics company as a legitimate client. As Wolff gets closer to the truth about a discrepancy that involves millions of dollars, the body count starts to rise.
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The Accountant (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By Variety
The Accountant is nothing if not a puzzle — not so much a jigsaw as a three-dimensional brain teaser that gets deeper and stranger with each new revelation.
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The Accountant (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By The Wrap
Audiences willing to just go with the movie’s outlandish lead character will find laughs and thrills along the way, as well as that rarest of studio properties: a tentpole that actually leaves you enthusiastic about the prospect of a sequel.
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The Accountant (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By The A.V. Club
At various times, The Accountant aspires to a slick corporate-espionage thriller, a no-nonsense action flick, a tortured family drama, a quirky romantic comedy, and an earnest PSA about autism. At nearly all times, it’s preposterous.
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The Accountant (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By The Guardian
The Accountant uses a cliched and misleading presentation of disability to produce a cliched Hollywood action lead in a cliched action plot, and then babbles cliches about the importance of embracing difference. Despite its protestations to the contrary, the only thing that sets The Accountant apart from its peers is its irritating, clueless hypocrisy, and its lousy title.
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Rating : 2/5
The Accountant (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By Time Out New York
The Dark Knight director has had a mortifying effect on movies. In this case, it’s almost as if Affleck’s somber plunge into the calamitous, Nolan-produced “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” has followed him into other projects, like a heavy cologne. Avoid this one like the stink it is.
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Rating : 1/5
The Accountant (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By Empire
Character motivations are glossed over, explanatory scenes are jammed in haphazardly, and the finale relies on a tonally bizarre combination of schmaltz, coincidence and violence that seems to betray the arc of the whole movie.
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Rating : 2/5
The Accountant (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By Screen International
The latest from director Gavin O’Connor (Warrior) is part character study and part airport-novel nonsense, and the film’s utter chutzpah gives the proceedings an agreeable kick. But The Accountant can’t balance its B-movie instincts with its more artistic aspirations, ultimately hamstringing a potentially juicy, escapist shoot-‘em-up.
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The Accountant (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By Critics
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