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Watch the pul­sat­ing first trail­er for The Accountant

13 May 2016

Words by Henry Heffer

Ben Affleck plays the num­bers game in this Bourne-esque thriller from direc­tor Gavin O’Connor.

In his post-Bat­man guise, Ben Affleck still looks con­sid­er­ably more brawny than brainy, but he’s out to show his smarts as Chris Wolff, an obses­sive com­pul­sive math savant, in Gavin O’Connor’s new thriller, The Accountant.

O’Connor is the man respon­si­ble for the high-impact fam­i­ly dra­ma / MMA beat ​’em up, War­rior, from 2011. Now it appears he’s stay­ing with the theme of the sleep­ing assas­sin in all of us. The trail­er hints at a super­hero ori­gin sto­ry akin to A Beau­ti­ful Mind’s John Nash – puz­zle solv­ing, metic­u­lous cut­lery arrange­ment and plate-glass equa­tions are now manda­to­ry when it comes to dis­tin­guish­ing genius on screen.

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Then some­thing awak­ens inside of Wolff and things start to get a bit Jason Bourne. Anna Kendrick shows up late on for what we can only pre­sume is a good rea­son. But this is undoubt­ed­ly the Ben Affleck show – he’s essen­tial­ly Rain Man with an assault rifle, which is a very intrigu­ing prospect indeed.

The Accoun­tant is released in cin­e­mas Novem­ber 4 2016.

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