Tonight on Netflix: unfairly forgotten for 9 years, this thriller with Ben Affleck will tape you

In 2016, Gavin O'Connor, director of acclaimed Warrior, offered us a little gear of thriller with Mr Wolff. Worn by Ben Affleck, the film presents a small genius of mathematics, Christian Wolff. The latter is more comfortable with figures than with people.

Chartered accountant in civilians, he actually works for several of the most dangerous mafia organizations in the world. When the anti-crime brigade of the Ministry of Finance is interested in a little too close to his business, Christian seeks to make a diversion.

He agreed to check the accounts of a robotics company with a storefront. Problem: the company's accountant has detected a hijacking of several million dollars. While Christian peeles the accounts and discovers the cogs of the scam, the corpses accumulate …

One of the best roles of Ben Affleck

Panting and captivating, Mr Wolff is a real nugget, between action and thriller, with a hint of drama. Ben Affleck excels as an apparently without stories that find an inextricable situation. The scenario weaves its poisonous canvas for 2:10, leaving us literally taped to our headquarters.

In Mr Wolff, Christian, the character camped by Ben Affleck, has an incredible gift to handle the figures due to the fact that he is suffering from a form of autism.

“By reflecting on what makes such a person aside, I had the idea that he could suffer from the spectrum of autism. But he could turn it to his advantage and I liked I liked a lot“Explained the screenwriter Bill Dubuque.

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Autism research

In addition, upstream of filming, Ben Affleck and Gavin O'Connor have consulted many autism specialists. They also visited households and specialized schools. “We have learned that what people call autistic spectrum disorder corresponds to a great diversity of conditions. I also tried to find the right balance between the desire to give information on Christian to the spectator and the need not to do it in a too obvious way”said Ben Affleck.

Note that it is producer Mark Williams who is at the origin of the MR Wolff project. He had heard of a judicial accountant and thought it was a kind of investigator.

“But I started to dig the subject and I told myself that we could intensify the issues by thinking about the people for whom he works and I found enough to make the action more captivating”he said.

“Once the main lines of the project in mind, I spoke to Bill Dubuque, an author with whom I have already collaborated and who is simply great. He immediately liked this idea and attacked the writing of the script”said Mark Williams.

Mr Wolff is available on the Netflix platform. Note that a continuation arrives in the rooms soon and we already have a trailer.