The Accountant follows the story of Christian Wolff , a mathematics genius that has mild autism with more interest for numbers than with people. Using a small-town CPA office as a cover, he makes his living as a freelance accountant for dangerous criminal organizations. A Treasury agent played by J.K. Simmons that is hot on his heels, Christian takes on a robotics company as a legitimate client and  as Wolff gets closer to the truth about a discrepancy that involves millions of dollars, the body count starts to rise and the past comes back to haunt him.

Ben Affleck’s performance is exceptional as he nails the role of a man with Asperger’s who can lead somewhat of a normal life. Asperger syndrome was generally considered to be on the “high functioning” end of the spectrum. Affected children and adults have difficulty with social interactions and exhibit a restricted range of interests and/or repetitive behaviors. The writing provides comedy with the social awkwardness of Affleck’s character as he has to interact with many people as an accountant.

J.K. Simmons is very good as well playing Ray King, a Treasury Agent who has encountered Christian Wolff and wants to find out who he is before he retires. As a supporting character he is perfectly fine but doesn’t get much screen time. Anna Kendrick plays Dana Cummings, an accountant/consultant hired by the robotics company that Affleck’s character has taken up as a client. Dana is a more important secondary character but has a relatively good performance.

The movie itself works well except in one point towards the end of the movie where two characters provide exposition and it didn’t really work for me and slowed the movie down a bit. The action in the movie is shot very smooth and when its intense it moves to shaky cam. The flashback scenes that shows the childhood of Affleck’s character fit in the movie nicely and shows how he was able to get to the point in his life when the story begins. Overall The Accountant is Jason Bourne meets Goodwill Hunting. I give The Accountant an 8.5/10.