In honor of Orioles playing the Red Sux, here's my thoughts and/or review of Ben Affleck's The Town.
Here's the plot: Heat in Boston. It absolutely follows the plot of Michael Mann's film. Super efficient, highly competent bank robbers (Affleck, Remmer and crew) hunted by a go for broke law enforcement man (that guy with the jaw from AMC's Mad Men). There is the girl with the baby and the girl who may or may not be dropped in thirty seconds or less. There are heists and double crosses and one last big score with all this heat on them. Yup. If you've seen Heat, you've seen this one.
Heat by the way is one of my all time favorite movies. Top 5.
The Town isn't so bad. It's competently directed by Affleck starring a competent Affleck. Rebecca Hall is a beauty. Pretty. I would watch the movie again to stare at that face for another 2 hours. She's just my type.
Jeremy Remmer always makes me nervous. His nonchalant demeanor always comes across as reckless whether as a bomb squad member or as a member of Affleck's bank robbing crew. You're always waiting for him to do something off the wall that'll make your palms sweat. Here he takes the last big score. "I ain't ever going back [to prison]," he says and you know that it's a death wish.
The last heist was cool. Taking on the Red Sox. Let's hope the Orioles bring down the house on the Red Sox just as the cops take it to the robbers.
3 of 5 stars.
Here's the plot: Heat in Boston. It absolutely follows the plot of Michael Mann's film. Super efficient, highly competent bank robbers (Affleck, Remmer and crew) hunted by a go for broke law enforcement man (that guy with the jaw from AMC's Mad Men). There is the girl with the baby and the girl who may or may not be dropped in thirty seconds or less. There are heists and double crosses and one last big score with all this heat on them. Yup. If you've seen Heat, you've seen this one.
Heat by the way is one of my all time favorite movies. Top 5.
The Town isn't so bad. It's competently directed by Affleck starring a competent Affleck. Rebecca Hall is a beauty. Pretty. I would watch the movie again to stare at that face for another 2 hours. She's just my type.
Jeremy Remmer always makes me nervous. His nonchalant demeanor always comes across as reckless whether as a bomb squad member or as a member of Affleck's bank robbing crew. You're always waiting for him to do something off the wall that'll make your palms sweat. Here he takes the last big score. "I ain't ever going back [to prison]," he says and you know that it's a death wish.
The last heist was cool. Taking on the Red Sox. Let's hope the Orioles bring down the house on the Red Sox just as the cops take it to the robbers.
3 of 5 stars.
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