Ben Affleck as Christian Wolff in Warner Bros. Pictures’ “THE ACCOUNTANT,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Chuck Zlotnick. Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures ©
– By Cate Marquis –
Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 stars
Ben Affleck plays an accountant with some special skills and special challenges in the mystery/action thriller THE ACCOUNTANT. Directed by Gavin O’Connor, what makes THE ACCOUNTANT different from other high-body count thrillers is the protagonist at its center. Christian Wolff (Affleck) is brilliant with numbers but has trouble with social interactions. His social difficulties look like autism spectrum, possibly the high-functioning type that used to be called Asperger’s, but his unusual upbringing by his brutal military operative father, designed to help him ward off bullies, has equipped him with skills in martial arts and weapons.
On the surface, Wolff is an accountant with a small office in a strip mall outside Chicago but his real profession is as a forensic accountant auditing the books of big-time criminal organizations, to uncover who is skimming money within those organizations. Wolff’s work has drawn the attention of the Treasury Department’s Crime Enforcement Division and its department head Ray King (J.K. Simmons), who has brought in a promising young analyst, Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson), to help track down this mysterious accountant.
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