In the action thriller “The Accountant,” Ben Affleck plays an autistic accountant who is also a perfect killing machine. The film is on free TV tonight.
The black humor action thriller “The Accountant” by Gavin O’Connor is airing today, August 25th, from 8:15 p.m. on ProSieben. That’s a good fit, because it was only recently announced that “The Accountant 2” will be released in US cinemas on April 25th, 2025. A German release date is still pending, but it can be assumed that the German release will be close to the US release.
This is what “The Accountant” is about
Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) has always had an extraordinary gift for mathematics. As a highly gifted person with outstanding abilities, however, he finds it extremely difficult to establish and maintain social contacts. Disguised as a small-town tax consultant, he secretly does the accounting for some of the most dangerous underworld organizations in the United States.
Eventually, however, tax investigator Ray King (JK Simmons) tracks him down and Christian’s cover is blown. So he accepts a new assignment in which he is to help the accountant of a robotics company, Dana (Anna Kendrick), to clear up accounting discrepancies worth millions. But while he is penetrating the confusing web of numbers, more and more people around him are dying…
A splendid Ben Affleck
Not surprisingly, “The Accountant” once again takes us back to the same autism clichés that “Rain Man” once used. However, Gavin O’Connor’s action thriller works because he can rely on his leading actorIn the official FILMSTARTS review, in which the film received 3.5 out of 5 stars, Carsten Baumgardt writes: “Ben Affleck is ideally cast in the role of the tight-lipped (anti-)hero with that certain something.”
This is because Ben Affleck has mastered the great contradictions of his character perfectly: “With him, even this aloof accountant-killer seems sympathetic and Even when he switches seamlessly from the respectable man to ‘John Wick’ mode, you still believe that he is a character who, strictly speaking, doesn’t really fit.“ The rest is done by well-choreographed fight scenes, atmospheric images and a very pleasant amount of black humor.
Here you can watch the trailer for “The Accountant” in the original English version:
This article is based on an article that already appeared on FILMSTARTS.
