*Originally written October 19th, 2016*
While a bit silly, overlong and gets convoluted by the end, I still had a good time with The Accountant. It's a bit messy and all over the place, there's a few story lines that don't add up to much, but it was still a decent little genre film with decent, new and interesting ideas.
Ben Affleck was great, delivering a fairly grounded performance which may or may not be an accurate portrayal of autism (I'm not an expert), his comedy and physical work was also excellent. Anna Kendrick was pretty wasted in a thankless and underdeveloped role. J.K. Simmons was excellent.
I was happy with the pretty brutal action throughout. No bullshit shaky-cam. It was all smooth and impactful. I was surprised by just how funny the film was though, Affleck gave us some excellent laughs with his dry dead-pan humour.
I feel my biggest problem with this film could have been fixed with a shorter edit. While the main side-plot gives us some background on Affleck's character, it really had no impact on the story and could have been dropped. There's also some silly twists towards the end that came out of nowhere, creating a very tonally messy film in retrospect.
But, for the most part: Solid. Would happily see a sequel and more adventures from Affleck's character.
7/10 Dans
The Accountant is out now on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD in the UK
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