The Town: Blu Ray Review
The Town
Released by Warner
Bros
Rating: M
In this flick, set in Charlestown in America, Affleck is Doug MacRay, a
criminal who's found robbing banks is the only way to survive the miserable
drudgery of working a construction job.
However, he along with his three co-robbers, end up abducting the manager of
the latest bank they turn over - Claire, played by Rebecca Hall.
The problem is that they're not sure what Claire saw or heard so when Doug's
volatile buddy Jem (a searingly jumpy turn by Jeremy Renner) suggests keeping an
eye on her, Doug decides it'd be safer if he looked out for Claire.
As Doug and Claire's relationship begins to flourish into something, the
police (led by Mad Men's Jon Hamm and Lost's Man in Black Titus Welliver) begin
to close in on the gang - and Doug starts to wonder if he can ever escape from
the life he's forged for himself.
I hadn't been expecting too much from a Ben Affleck outing to be honest - but
thanks to some excellently restrained directing which allows the story to
breathe and come to life, he's managed to put together a corker of a film with
some brilliant ensemble performances - from the likes of Gossip Girl's Blake
Lively as Jem's sister who's had an off-on-off again thing with Doug and is
resentful of Claire to Jeremy Renner's nerve tingling performance as Jem, a man
who can explode at any second.
That's not to say the likes of Pete Postlethwaite as a gangland kingpin who
runs a florist and a cameo from Chris Cooper as Doug's dad don't shine -
everyone brings their A game to this flick about desperation, hopes of escape
and the promise of another life.
Rating: 8/10
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