I give today’s Hollywood a hard time for being formulaic, repetitive, and addicted not just to the same recycled franchises but to the same plots in every blockbuster, so that the climax of Superhero Movie X is practically indistinguishable from the climax of Star Trek Reboot Z. Which means I have to give credit where credit is due: The Accountant, the new Ben Affleck action vehicle, is founded on a genuinely original idea. Indeed, I feel safe in venturing that nobody, in cinema or literature, has invented an action hero quite like this one.
That’s possibly because no scribe has ever consumed as much premium-grade hashish as Bill Dubuque, the writer of The Accountant, must have ingested in order to come up with the elevator pitch for his story. What’s your movie about, Bill? Well, you’ve seen Rain Man, right? Sure, loved it. And you’ve seen the Bourne movies, right? Oh yeah, they’re great. Well what if . . .
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