3/5 stars

Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant sees Ben Affleck play an autistic bookkeeper, whose condition proves to be both a gift and a dangerous burden. Slickly executed yet overly ambitious, the film wrestles with too many narrative and thematic threads. Part action thriller, legal procedural, autism drama and mismatched romance, it is strong in parts but less than the total sum.

At the centre of it all is Christian Wolff (Affleck), who applies his incredible mathematical acuity to laundering money for criminal organisations. When hired by a large robotics company, he crosses paths with Anna Kendrick’s spunky in-house clerk, but the treasury department is already on his tail. J.K. Simmons’ gruff treasury director and new recruit Cynthia Addai-Robinson want Christian for his underworld clients, but discover too late that he’s also a highly proficient killer who won’t go down without a fight.