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The Accountant (2016)

Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:34 pm
by Leisher
What happens when you train an autistic kid to be a warrior? You get the world's deadliest accountant.

Listen, I know nothing about autism, but there were a LOT of things that seemed wrong to me throughout the movie. But whatever...

This was a very entertaining film. Affleck does a great job with what he's working with, but again, there seem to be inconsistencies. I blame that more on the writers. There's a story line about someone in Treasury trying to track him down that will make you laugh. It's clearly written by someone with no concept of how to hide money/ownership. It makes Cave Johnson's character look completely incompetent.

The action is really solid and reminds me of John Wick, although the body count is much smaller.

The story is enough...just...enough to not become a disaster. In fact, the main story is such a background player that it almost doesn't exist. Make no mistake, this was about creating a franchise.

I hope they run with it too because I think this could be an interesting character to follow.

Did I mention Anna Ferris is in the movie? Not enough to go gaga, but it's always nice to see her. John Lithgow and Shane/Punisher round out the names you'll know.

Worth a viewing and worthy of a sequel, but I think for this film the folks here will spend more time discussing if someone with autism would do X and X and X...

The Accountant

Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2017 8:50 pm
by TheCatt
Leisher wrote:Did I mention Anna Ferris is in the movie? Not enough to go gaga, but it's always nice to see her.
I don't want to sound all Malcolm, but she does nothing for me.

The Accountant

Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2017 9:21 pm
by Troy
I think you mean Anna Kendrick. She's hotter than Ferris.

As for movie? Thumbs up and wife approved. Nothing too deep, just a solid action/intrigue type deal.

The Accountant

Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2017 9:48 pm
by Malcolm
Troy wrote: I think you mean Anna Kendrick. She's hotter than Ferris.

As for movie? Thumbs up and wife approved. Nothing too deep, just a solid action/intrigue type deal.
Cue to catt backpedaling on his opinion in 3, 2, 1...

The Accountant

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 2:10 pm
by TheCatt
Troy wrote: I think you mean Anna Kendrick. She's hotter than Ferris.

As for movie? Thumbs up and wife approved. Nothing too deep, just a solid action/intrigue type deal.
Wait, Anna Kendrick is in this film?

queues it up

The Accountant

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 4:58 pm
by Leisher
I think you mean Anna Kendrick.
I did, thank you.

The Accountant

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 5:14 pm
by TheCatt
Anna Kendrick is shooting a 3rd movie in some signing series of movies I've never seen, but it just happens to be shooting outside a building in Atlanta that I'm visiting Tuesday and Wednesday. TOTAL COINCIDENCE. (and hopefully she's still there)

The Accountant

Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 6:22 pm
by GORDON
What if John Wick and The Equalizer had a baby, but he was a more-verbal-Rainman-style autist with an engaged father in Army psy-ops?
Leisher wrote: Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:34 pm It makes Cave Johnson's character look completely incompetent.
He was. He admitted he kinda sucked, and all his big career moves came because he got phones calls from the British chick with big tipoffs. And I'm mulling over why he had his protege search for "The Accountant" in the first place. Did he expect the investigation would get exactly as far as it got, and he could hand over the "expect a call" reins to her with that knowledge?

The Accountant (2016)

Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 3:52 pm
by GORDON
I realized something today, 24 hours later.

The
woman on the phone was the severely non-verbal autistic chick in the home. I got that Ben Afflek bought her a nice computer to do her text to speech, but it didn't automatically occur to me she was his handler. Heavy sigh.

The Accountant (2016)

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 3:21 pm
by thibodeaux
I also recently rewatched this and kept thinking Affleck's character was blind.

The Accountant (2016)

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 4:46 pm
by GORDON
The no eye contact thing.

The Accountant (2016)

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 3:29 pm
by thibodeaux
No I meant:
Image

(and who's his brother...)