{"id":21815,"date":"2017-08-19T08:28:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T07:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21815"},"modified":"2017-08-19T08:28:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T07:28:01","slug":"a-review-of-the-2016-movie-the-accountant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21815","title":{"rendered":"A review of the 2016 movie &#8220;The Accountant&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an action thriller with an unusual central character &#8211; a kind of cross between Raymond Babbitt from &#8220;Rain Man&#8221;, since he has acute autism with phenomenal mathematical skills, and the eponymous hit man in the &#8220;John Wick&#8221; series, since he has the kind of martial and shooting skills of a small army.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Wolff (played in a necessarily downbeat fashion by Ben Affleck) is the accountant, but he is much more of a wolf than an Christian. Indeed he is a morally complex figure indeed, assisting crime syndicates to clean up their ill-gotten gains while running a host of front companies himself to enable the funding of a meritorious endeavour and, along the way, killing as callously as efficiently and yet sparing a couple of his potential victims.<\/p>\n<p>A slow burner with some initially complex plotting but sufficiently different certainly to merit viewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an action thriller with an unusual central character &#8211; a kind of cross between Raymond Babbitt from &#8220;Rain Man&#8221;, since he has acute autism with phenomenal mathematical skills, and the eponymous hit man in the &#8220;John Wick&#8221; series, since he has the kind of martial and shooting skills of a small army. Christian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21816,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21815\/revisions\/21816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}