DVD Release Date: December 17, 2010
Ben Affleck takes to the director’s chair for the second time with the action-drama ‘The Town’. It’s about a group of bank robbers who end up kidnapping a female bank manager (Rebecca Hall). After releasing her, Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) goes to find out if she saw anything that could be used against them, but ends up getting more of a relationship with her then he bargained for... Take a look:
Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner are both coming off major success for their latest films. With Ben Affleck proving to everyone that he’s a bona fide writer/director with ‘Gone Baby Gone’ and Jeremy Renner’s Oscar nominated performance in ‘The Hurt Locker’. I think they both proved that those films were no fluke. Jeremy Renner gives an amazing performance playing one of the bank robbers. His character is definitely very unstable and violent, but he doesn’t ham it up too much, which makes the character very believable.
The only major flaw in this movie is that Ben Affleck stars in it. He is meant to be this character that’s torn emotionally throughout the film, but he seems to be pretty emotionless. I really believe that he has found his calling as a director and a writer, and this movie is shot brilliantly. The action and the car chases are shot better then any movie I can remember seeing recently.
This movie is definitely worth going out and getting. If it wasn’t for the performance by Affleck, I wouldn’t have been surprised to see this getting some Oscar love.
Final Grade: B+
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