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The Accountant (2016)
Ben Affleck (whom I not the biggest fan of) does an excellent job here. He plays a highly-functioning autistic who, because of his protective Army father, learned. along with his brother, many skills such as martial arts, gun expertise, etc. etc. He is also great at numbers and works as an accountant for a criminal organization, "uncooking" their books. He has a cover office as a CPA and occasionally gets a real job. His latest job causes trouble when he finds out the firm that recently hired him to find a discrepancy appears to have a dirty employee.
He meets a girl at the firm, played by Anna Kendrick, who does fine here as she tries to make friendly with Affleck, which is not easy as his autism makes it hard to chum up to people. When their lives become endangered, he goes into action. All the while a dangerous stranger, played by the great Jon Bernthal, seems to be walking the same path, showing up at places that dovetail with Affleck's clientele. J.K. Simmons is a high-ranking F.B.I. agent who assigns a lower agent, the beautiful Cynthia Addai-Robinson, to find out who this accountant is and they begin to track him down.
Full of action, great acting, and nice pacing, this movie has twists you may not see coming (I didn't---well, maybe one), and never lets up till the end. I was very surprised at some resolutions that don't come until the very end and that really pleased me. Oh yeah, John Lithgow and Jean Smart are also in the movie.
This one is a good time.
Ben Affleck (whom I not the biggest fan of) does an excellent job here. He plays a highly-functioning autistic who, because of his protective Army father, learned. along with his brother, many skills such as martial arts, gun expertise, etc. etc. He is also great at numbers and works as an accountant for a criminal organization, "uncooking" their books. He has a cover office as a CPA and occasionally gets a real job. His latest job causes trouble when he finds out the firm that recently hired him to find a discrepancy appears to have a dirty employee.
He meets a girl at the firm, played by Anna Kendrick, who does fine here as she tries to make friendly with Affleck, which is not easy as his autism makes it hard to chum up to people. When their lives become endangered, he goes into action. All the while a dangerous stranger, played by the great Jon Bernthal, seems to be walking the same path, showing up at places that dovetail with Affleck's clientele. J.K. Simmons is a high-ranking F.B.I. agent who assigns a lower agent, the beautiful Cynthia Addai-Robinson, to find out who this accountant is and they begin to track him down.
Full of action, great acting, and nice pacing, this movie has twists you may not see coming (I didn't---well, maybe one), and never lets up till the end. I was very surprised at some resolutions that don't come until the very end and that really pleased me. Oh yeah, John Lithgow and Jean Smart are also in the movie.
This one is a good time.