The Accountant 2016

As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.

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The Accountant is a 2016 American action thriller film directed by Gavin O'Connor, written by Bill Dubuque and starring Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J. K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Tambor and John Lithgow. The film follows a small town certified public accountant who makes his living uncooking the books of dangerous criminal organizations that are experiencing internal embezzlement.

The film premiered in Los Angeles on October 10, 2016, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 14, 2016 by Warner Bros. Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics and has grossed $27 million.

Plot

Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is a mathematical genius who works as a forensic accountant tracking insider financial deceptions for numerous criminal enterprises brokered to him by a mysterious figure known as "The Voice", who contacts him by phone. As a child, Christian was diagnosed with autism and offered to live at Harbor Neuroscience Institute in New Hampshire. Although Christian had bonded with Justine, the mute daughter of the institute's director, his father, a decorated military officer, declined, believing that Christian should overcome the hardships inherent to his condition rather than expect the world to accommodate to them. The pressure of raising a special needs child drove Christian's mother to abandon him and his younger brother, Braxton, who were left in their father's care.

Christian is being pursued by Raymond King (J.K. Simmons), the director of financial crimes of the Treasury Department, who knows Christian by the alias "The Accountant". King recruits young analyst Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) to help him identify and arrest the Accountant prior to his retirement, threatening to expose Medina's criminal past if she refuses. King's only leads are Christian's numerous cover names and a recording of a shootout in which numerous members of the Gambino crime family were killed, which King believes was perpetrated by the Accountant.

In order to elude King, the Voice arranges a legal assignment for Christian, auditing state-of-the-art robotics corporation Living Robotics, whose in-house accountant, Dana Cummings (Anna Kendrick), has found suspicious financial discrepancies. The company's CEO, Lamar Blackburn (John Lithgow) and his sister and associate Rita Blackburn (Jean Smart) willingly cooperate with Christian's investigation, while CFO Ed Chilton (Andy Umberger) dismisses Dana's findings as a mistake. Christian and Dana work together to watch The Accountant 2016 discover that $61 million dollars has been embezzled from the company and in the process build a rapport.

CFO Chilton is confronted by a hitman known as "The Assassin" (Jon Bernthal), who forces him to overdose on insulin shots. Lamar tells Christian that Chilton embezzled the money and was driven to suicide out of guilt, and Rita closes the investigation, leaving Christian distraught because he had not completed his study. Meanwhile,The Accountant 2016 movies online Medina realizes Christian's cover identities are all famous mathematicians and isolates his voice from King's recording, determining that he is muttering a nursery rhyme to himself, a behavior consistent with Aspergers. The trail leads her to the modest accounting office that Christian uses as a cover, and she learns that Christian has written off hefty tax returns with donations to the Harbor Neuroscience Institute.

Christian and Dana are targeted for assassination, but Christian is able to neutralize his pursuers and rescue Dana. While hiding, they find out that watch The Accountant 2016 online the embezzled money was reinvested in affiliated companies, raising Living Robotics' stocks. Concluding that Rita is behind everything, Christian goes to her house only to find her dead at the hands of the Assassin, who escapes just as Christian is arriving, in the process exposing Lamar as the true mastermind.

Meanwhile, King and Medina arrive at Christian's house and find evidence that he is the Accountant. King reveals that The Accountant 2016 full Christian was arrested after an incident at his mother's funeral that led to his father being shot. In jail, Christian was mentored by Francis Silverberg (Jeffrey Tambor), a former accountant and fixer for the Gambino crime family, before being recruited as an informer for the United States government. When Silverberg was released and killed by the Gambino crime family, Christian escaped in fury to enact revenge on the people responsible. Flashbacks show King present at the shootout where Christian spared his life, after which King was contacted by the Voice and provided with evidence compiled by Christian on criminals who violated his moral code. King reveals that the investigation on the Accountant was a test for Medina, who has been selected to replace King after his retirement as the future contact for the Voice.

Christian assaults Lamar's mansion, which is protected by an army of mercenaries led by the Assassin. During the shootout, the Assassin recognizes the nursery rhyme that Christian is muttering to himself and confronts him, revealing himself to be brother Braxton, with whom Christian had a falling-out after their father's death. After a brutal fight, the two come to terms, and Braxton stands aside as Christian kills Lamar. The Voice later relays Christian's evidence on Lamar's criminal activities to Medina, who has accepted King's offer and dismantles Living Robotics. Christian then bids farewell to Dana and leaves to find Braxton, while at the Harbor Neuroscience Institute, an adult Justine (Alison Wright) continues to monitor him with a cutting-edge super-powered computer purchased by Christian, revealing herself to be the Voice.