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Dennis Dostey Dorve, a driver and a part-time fisherman, stands on a fallen tree next to his late father’s room, collapsed by the sea in the family home in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)Dennis Dostey Dorve, a driver and a part-time fisherman, stands on a fallen tree next to his late father’s room, collapsed by the sea in the family home in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
The sea began to claim houses in Agavedzi about a dozen years ago, said Dennis Dostey Dorve, whose fisherman father built a home that collapsed in 2016 while Dorve was inside.“The room he had given me is gone, as is the room he occupied before he passed away,” said Dorve. “When I was young, the distance from where I stand now to the shore was considerable.”Dennis Dostey Dorve stands by a sculpture design on a collapsed wall of his late father’s room, which was destroyed by coastal erosion in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
Dennis Dostey Dorve stands by a sculpture design on a collapsed wall of his late father’s room, which was destroyed by coastal erosion in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)The government started building sea defenses in nearby communities, but they never reached Agavedzi. Residents, he said, have done “everything we could to make the government hear our cries and assist us, but we haven’t received any response.”
“It shocks me because I never would have believed, since my birth, that the sea would come to this place.”
Makafui Atayi stands at the entrance of the remains of her father’s 10-unit family home in Avegadzi, Ghana, Tuesday, March 4, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)) whose powers of deduction are enhanced by his autism, just succeeds at punching up the numbers for “The Accountant” in this belated follow-up.
It’s a role that was always an odd fit for Affleck. In a way, that’s the intention. Affleck’s Christian Wolff is a monotone bean counter who used to help criminal organizations launder money and clean their books. Now, he’s a combination of stickler and vigilante whose insight into tax filings and other paper trails helps him hunt down any clue. The best scene in “The Accountant 2” might be when he exposes a human trafficking scheme at a pizza company by rapidly calculating a dubious gap of underreported pizza box expenses. (There, if ever, is a reason to keep your receipts.)Affleck, of course, has always been a more garrulous, charismatic screen presence. The role of savant wasn’t for him; it was for his “Good Will Hunting” co-star, Matt Damon. Here, though, he’s an emotionless android who speaks in clipped sentences and avoids eye contact. And while the “Rain Man” shtick of “The Accountant” always feels forced, you can tell Affleck is enjoying himself.
In “The Accountant 2,” that’s most true when he’s paired up with Jon Bernthal. He plays Wolff’s more outgoing and freewheeling brother, Braxton, who has a knack for bloody mayhem but harbors hurt feelings from his brother’s distance in recent years. The two make a fine action duo of opposites. The problem? It takes a long time in Bill Dubuque’s unhurried and disordered script to get to them.The movie begins with a set piece of misdirection that adds to the muddled nature of the first act. Retired FBI financial crimes boss Raymond King (J.K. Simmons) is meeting someone at a restaurant who might help in his search for a family of Central American refugees. It’s a hit job, though, with snipers in position, and a separate, mysterious assassin (Daniella Pineda) lurking about. The scene ends with King’s body taken out with a message he’s written on his forearm: “Find the accountant.”