All audience reviews of The Accountant

I will not be able to recommend this film to anyone because it does not have a necessary quality of a commercial feature film and that is an interesting narrative to keep you engaged. Inspite of having top stars like Ben Affleck and JK Simmons the unfolding of the plot is so slow and the performances so weak that one loses focus very soon. Most scenes lack credibility and are extremely slow paced. There was no need for them to be dull and drab. Ben plays a Maths wizard with a childhood affected by autism. As the accountant he moves about in a robotic manner with a gloomy expression all the time. JK Simmons does what he can in a poorly written role. less

Ben Alffek starer The Accountant requires some serious attention to details while watching, especially if mathematics isn't your cup of tea! Ben Alffek starer The Accountant requires some serious attention to details while watching, especially if mathematics isn't your cup of tea! less

Actually I owe an apology to all those who will read my tweets most of them sent around first half hour of the movie
. I still stand by those tweets. The first twenty minutes establish the fact that Ben Affleck gives a good try at being a man of few emotions . A high level investigative officer blackmails a talented analyst to trace a untraceable clever bookmaker called the accountant else she goes to jail. The Accountant is a methodical man and can fight too. Lives out of a truck so that he can escape fast. Things are slowly put in second gear mood. The atmosphere of the movie is chilly and brooding. You cross fingers for the thriller to unfold only to discover after 100 minutes that this is a forever second gear pace movie. The female lead Anna Kendrick has been totally wasted. The movie tries to give us moments of emotion by showing how a cold blooded killer leaves without killing a man just because he tells him that he is a good father. Really? Cmon Hollywood out here some of our ooty movies of mithun da have better emotions. There are four odd action scenes which somehow could have made huge impact if this movie was released in 1968.

The Accountant's biggest problem is the director attempting too many plot threads and none getting connected. In the process he has no time to develop characters or moments. Don't they discuss the screenplay amongst the intelligent ones in the team before shooting and releasing it worldwide?

The half star is for the crunchy hot samosa that I got from the canteen of Tivoli Cinema Secunderabad.

Am keeping the review short so that this can be quickly uploaded and those who will be fooled into watching accountant post my review can be saved.

Thank you Mr. Accountant no more instant review tweets from me. less

The Accountant is an almost run-of-the-mill Hollywood thriller inside quite an atypical shell. One can never quite decide whether Ben Affleck's character falls on the Jason Bourne side of the spectrum or the Mechanic's. While this confusion is a fun thing to ponder about it in the beginning, it gets rather taxing by the end of the movie.

Ben Affleck is an accountant who struggles with autism who wants to leave his mark on the world. His job may not sound all that interesting, but his clients happen to be drug dealers and mafiosos. He also dispenses his own peculiar brand of vigilantism on those who he deems worthy targets. So he's a hitman moonlighting as an accountant. Sadly for him, he's discovered by a keen eyed government agent, and he has to go on the run with his assistant.

THe Accountant is often thrilling, but those moments don't stop the confused impression the movie gives about itself. There's flashbacks here and there, but they aren't all that illuminating about the plot or its characters. It's this theme of haphazardness that permeates through the movie. Still Ben Affleck delivers a great performance as the accountant/assassin, and The Accountant can be watched once. Just don't expect it to blow you away. less

Ben Alffek starer The Accountant requires some serious attention to details while watching, especially if mathematics isn't your cup of tea! An autistic child prodigy trained into being a calculating, blunt and tough accountant is pretty impressive story of Christian Wolff essayed by Ben Alffrek.

The first half is pretty difficult to wrap your head around as the mystery unfolds in bits and at places left me wondering as to what really is happening. Even not being a mathematics enthusiast it was impressive to see Christian resolve a financial lapse in the records of Living Robotics in hours, covering the glass windows of a conference hall in numbers!
It is a bit relaxing to be able to put the bits together in the second half and the situation makes much more sense.

The softer side this accountant who is haunted by the deprivation of his mother and the tough training of his father, and his motivation to finish what his started gives a twist to the character who is an assassin and a criminal charged with serious offences like felony.

The individual performances are good, but the climax of the film is demotivating after a nice build up to the story. The meeting of two long lost brothers sort of kills the story and the parallel investigation taken us by government Treasury agents, Raymond King and Medina, into finding out who he is seems kind of pointless. The entire good of the entire story suddenly becomes a big fat disappointment in the end and kills the buzz of it being a Ben Alffreck flick! less