What Went Wrong?

Millions of movie dollars wasted by errors that evaded the light of minds skilled in the dramatic arts

the accountant

Debugging The Accountant

 

The Accountant – What went wrong


There is very little wrong with this production. It is a very good movie that made a tidy profit. But the quality of story, the acting and directing show that it could have been a great movie.

 

The director proves his intelligence, the actors demonstrate their skill and the story is so fascinating that you want more of it at a deeper level. You want this movie to supply you with more drama; more joined up loose ends; you want the juice on offer but are left a little short.


In some places, the actors are allowed to paint themselves into the character with small monologues when character should have been relayed with a vivacity of interaction.  Also the tempo wavered a little out of harmony at times.


So what went wrong with it, and why?


There appears to be no lack of expertise, so computing the remaining possible causal factors, the likely culprit can be identified in a single word “Time”.  It seems there was not enough time to polish the final product into the shine it deserved.  Much of the blemishes are down to the editing.  Maybe the deadline and/or budget were maxing out. Oh ye of little faith!


With access to the rushes, a good team of trouble-shooters, like us here at Lightdrops, would need two weeks to debug this movie and polish it to the perfection it deserved. 

 

Personally, I would have liked a few extra camera angles and reaction shots to squeeze more dramatic juice out of some pertinent scenes; thus pumping up the fizz and tempo.

 

This movie is also missing a major ingredient; it is an ingredient that would define and totally nail down the character’s unique identity.  If this text mentioned this essential ingredient now, you would say, “Oh my god, yes! Why did I not think of that?  It would take just a few days to add this missing component and it would transform the movie onto a totally new level of entertainment and satisfaction!  It would also massively enhance the weak marketing strategy.  The missing ingredient is so essential to this movie that I’m positive that the director would have seen it had he relaxed for a few days to overview the product

 

The verdict is that this movie was finished two weeks too soon.


Those extra two weeks of work would have earned it over another $100,000,000