Would you trust Ben Affleck to do your accounting? His skills have not yet been measured, but he plays a maths whizz and freelance ledger legend with some highly q questionable clients in new thriller The Accountant. See the new trailer below.
Affleck here is Christian Wolff, a man who grew up knowing he was different. He has a genius-level IQ and can run numbers in a way that would baffle most mental mortals. But he can't seem to crack social skills in any meaningful fashion. Still, that hasn't stopped him working as a freelance accountant for some of the world's biggest criminal organisations.
As he takes on his first legit client, a state-of-the-art robotics company, he comes under scrutiny from a junior accounting clerk (Anna Kendrick), who discovered the discrepancy that led to his hiring and from the Treasury Department’s Crime Enforcement Division, which has finally tied him to his criminal paymasters. With federal lawman Ray King (J.K. Simmons) closing in, the stakes – and the body count – start to rise.
Gavin O'Connor directed this one, which will arrive on UK screens on November 4.