Review of The Accountant (2016) by Jdb26354 — 17 Oct 2016

The Accountant has the makings of a franchise. You have a protagonist with a personality disorder, a classic yin and yang between math and violence, a tension between apparently dark means and potentially noble ends, and a lead actor who fits the role extremely well.

Think of a modern version of Clint Eastwood as The Man With No Name in the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone. True, the story has too much clutter in terms of subplots, but by the time those flaws became apparent, I was hooked on the main character and the puzzle.

The primary villain was also quite interesting and well played. Audiences respond to a movie’s entertainment value, while critics, sometimes in a misguided pursuit of professional craft, can miss this fundamental point, and appear to have done so in this case.

I suspect the audience ratings will continue to far outpace those of the critics and, in this case, go with the wisdom of the crowd.