Overview
A math savant navigates the dangerous world of crime while seeking the truth behind a financial discrepancy.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Brutal
- tense
- darkly amusing
- clinical
- action movie night
- crime thriller marathon
What critics said
Critics found the film entertaining and unusually conceived, with effective action and an engaging lead, but divided over its overloaded plotting and portrayal of autism through violence.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Christian Wolff navigates criminal finance through extraordinary numerical skills while struggling with interpersonal interaction and sensory regulation.
Christian's forensic accounting case is intercut with Treasury investigations and other characters pursuing his identity and activities.
Accounting, financial analysis, military training, and marksmanship all become tools in Christian's conflict with organized crime.
Quiet sequences of spreadsheets and numerical deduction repeatedly give way to precise gunfights and brutal confrontations.
Films like The Accountant, and why
John Wick
Shares a highly capable loner protagonist, criminal underworld intrigue, tactical violence, and a morally complicated action-thriller framework.
The Bourne Identity
Combines procedural investigation, assassin mythology, conspiracy plotting, and a restrained but formidable central protagonist.
Rain Man
Features an autistic-coded outsider, intricate criminal conspiracies, dark humor, and escalating action surrounding hidden identities.
Michael Clayton
Shares a crime-thriller structure built around financial wrongdoing, lethal corporate secrets, and an isolated professional uncovering corruption.
Movie Details
- Director
- Gavin O'Connor
- Release Date
- 2016-10-13
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 (7615)
Cast
- Ben Affleck
- Anna Kendrick
- J.K. Simmons
- Jon Bernthal
- Jeffrey Tambor
- Cynthia Addai-Robinson
- John Lithgow
- Jean Smart
- Andy Umberger
- Alison Wright
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- YouTube TV
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Spectrum On Demand, Plex
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is The Accountant about?
- A socially isolated mathematical savant moonlights as an accountant for criminals while turning a corporate fraud investigation into a lethal reckoning.
- What is The Accountant like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Accountant as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is The Accountant violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in The Accountant as brutal.
- What did critics think of The Accountant?
- Critics found the film entertaining and unusually conceived, with effective action and an engaging lead, but divided over its overloaded plotting and portrayal of autism through violence.
- Which films are like The Accountant?
- Films with a similar feel include John Wick, The Bourne Identity, Rain Man, and Michael Clayton.
- How long is The Accountant?
- The Accountant runs 128 minutes.
- Where can I watch The Accountant?
- In United States, The Accountant streams on YouTube TV.
