The Accountant (2016)

After a long hiatus from blogging for my "I'm a Movie Buff" blogspot, I thought I'd review The Accountant. There are a few reasons for this.

1. I watch too many TV shows and movies. So, my opinion must matter ;) 
2. I was home alone and had to make the most of it. 
3. I took the trouble of going solo to the movie and it was a complete let down. I can stop other's from rushing to the theatre with this blog.

I landed at the theatre, on time, after shopping for some beauty products and being coaxed into wearing cat-eye makeup at Health & Glow. I sat down with a comforting tub of Caramel Popcorn (I had vowed to never let malls fleece me by selling me popcorn at ridiculous prices but that went down the drain when I saw popcorn). My neighbours were two separate groups of men. I avoided peeking at them to avoid eye contact. Very few people go to the movies by themselves. I wonder why that is. It is so enjoyable. No need to share your food and drink or make intelligent comments about the movie. I can do that later when I blog,

The movie started off promising to be a thought-provoking story about an autistic boy who had special skills but slowly it made Ben Affleck's character (Wolff) too heavy ...autism, ex-military, crazy mathematician (who scribbles on walls), deviously brilliant accountant for innocent citizens & drug cartels who need to evade tax or bury money, vigilante with super-human combat skills, a convict, etc. There were flashbacks of his father, his brother, his time at an institute for special kids and a maximum-security prison. The goal was that it would somehow explain Wolff. Throughout the movie, I wondered where his brother is now and who the computerized voice-on-the-phone is. I silently prayed that Wolff wasn't a computer genius as well and that he had not created some Artificial Intelligence to have dynamic conversations with him. I'd have felt like a loser if he was that too. Meanwhile, there's the Treasury department looking for the mysterious Accountant because he is consistently seen with all the bad guys. There's also another present-day story where Wolff is asked to investigate some lousy numbers at Living Robotics and he meets Anna Kendrick. Her character is nothing unusual. It's just Anna Kendrick being what she is usually like in all her movies. High pitched. Look, I'm getting a little tired explaining all this. So, I'll cut short.  
**Spoiler alert** In the end, Wolff discovers that his brother is the one trying to assassinate him and the Voice is the autistic girl at the institute for special children, the one who has no social skills and is always in panic, but is a genious (she too?) with a super-computer. The narrator tried to say something very profound at the end (to compensate for the madness that he led us into)... something about "our understanding of what normal is". The audience and I did manage to laugh a little at some dry jokes because that was our only hope for paisa-vasool.

My final verdict. Wait for it to show up on Netflix or whatever your content source is.