Nicholas Cage often gets a bad rap for being a less than adequate actor in Hollywood. While I’m not completely in agreeance with some of the comments made about him over the course of his career, I can understand where these ideas come from. It is films like this that cause viewers to look down on Cage and his acting ability. Each and every dragging moment in which Cage is on screen he lacks the ability to convince anyone that he is, in any way, imposing, skilled in combat or struggling to face and rectify the hardships he has been dealt. William Fichtner’s The Accountant was one of the few enjoyable characters in the entire film. While his acting wasn’t exactly top-notch, his nonchalant approach to even the most intense situations made him intriguing. The action sequences are as equally enticing as Cage’s portrayal of Milton. They are draped in slow-motion that certainly does not benefit the action or the intensity. The overuse of blood and gore to express how dangerous each character was and how important each moment was to the two protagonists (Milton and Piper (Amber Heard) fell short and, rather than making the scenes more interesting, turned the audience off to what was taking place. The story, had it been approached much differently, could have been interesting and enjoyable. With the choice of actors, the disappointing animation and the film’s timeline set the film back and never allowed it to gain its footing. The main goal of our protagonist is understandable, however, the means by which Milton’s granddaughter was taken from him was so outlandish that the story, as a whole, became less believable. Nearly every choice that Patrick Lussier made throughout the course of the film pushed audiences further and further away from believing or appreciating anything that took place. This film failed in nearly every way: acting, action, story-telling, etc., and whatever vision Lussier and Todd Farmer had for their never came to fruition. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1502404/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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