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What if Jason Bourne was also TurboTax? Ben Affleck is an autistic math savant who moonlights as a lethal assassin and part-time financial consultant for warlords. And you know what? One of the hosts of this show loves this movie.
Secret trailer arsenals? Check. Hidden identities? Double check. Anna Kendrick showing up to save the movie? Triple check with a spreadsheet.
This is peak Great Bad Movie material: it’s serious about being serious, but somewhere deep in its soul, it knows it’s kind of ridiculous.
Joe’s Back of the Box
Where do criminal enterprises go to audit their books? Well if you know who to call, The Accountant will help you out. But beware, buried under his steely gaze is a code and if you break his code he will break you. Ben Affleck stars in this simmering action thriller that boils over and out of the board room into the highest echelons of power. Every missed dollar could cost you your job or, at worst, your life…
The REAL Back of the Box
This is a movie that should never have been made. We did not need an autistic accountant action movie. I’m sorry. We didn’t. This movie makes no sense and forces great actors to deliver mediocre monologues to move the story forward. There is one decent action scene in this movie and it’s the last one. Other than that, this is an exercise in normalizing autism and accounting in a manner so ridiculous that it fails on all accounts. The people who greenlit the sequel should be evaluated for head trauma…