Cooking or uncooking the books for dodgy high profile international clients is the norm for math savant, Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck – Gone Girl, Argo). But when he starts to appear in a few too many surveillance photos of illegal transactions, the American Treasury Department start to take notice and attempt to track him down.
Wolff is not a typical accountant – he’s also a trained assassin. But then The Accountant is not a typical action thriller. Weaving snippets of events from a difficult adolescence with life in a backwater CPA office, a legitimate job where an accounting clerk (Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air, Pitch Perfect) has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars soon develops into something much more. As Treasury (headed by J.K.Simmons – Whiplash, Juno) closes in, so the body count increases.
Time spent developing character pays dividends. Directed by Gavin O’Connor (Warrior, Tumbleweeds), The Accountant is an unusually nuanced and slow build of a thriller.
Rating: 64%
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