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Release Date: September 17, 2010
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Ben Affleck
Screenwriter: Ben Affleck, Peter Craig, Aaron Stockard
Starring: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Pete Postlethwaite, Chris Cooper
Genre: Crime, Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for strong violence, pervasive language, some sexuality and drug use)
The Town Hollywood Film Review : Three years after his directorial debut on the gripping drama Gone Baby Gone, Ben Affleck returns with another skillful Bostonian crime thriller, The Town. More confident behind the camera and engaging in front of it, Affleck directs himself as part of a compelling ensemble cast, pulling double duty like his antihero Doug MacRay, a blue collar laborer and the brains of a four-man crew of seasoned bandits.
A title card introduces Charlestown, Mass. as a single square mile that produces more bank and armored car robbers than anywhere else in the world. A small town atmosphere with big city crime, it’s the sort of place where everyone knows everyone else but if they’re asked, they “don’t know nothin.’” The towering Bunker Hill Monument looms over the cramped community, casting a shadow on the modern war below.
In the opening scene MacRay, a second generation thief wearing a ghoulish skull mask, bristles for what he was born to do. Beside him, for better or worse, is his Irish brother-in-arms Jem Coughlin (Jeremy Renner), a smirking, unpredictable thug quick to turn brutally violent despite the two strikes on his public record. In a whirlwind heist reminiscent of Michael Mann’s Heat, the gang storms a local bank, executes their stick-up with precision, and slips out with the bank manager, Claire (the reliable Rebecca Hall), as a hostage.
Worried that she’s seen too much, MacRay tails her, but he’s drawn by her vulnerability and soon strikes up a charming conversation in a local laundromat. Playing the part of a sensitive stranger, he sympathizes with her trauma and supplies plenty of sly wit until they become more intimate than either had planned. In one of her confessions, Claire tells him she would immediately recognize the voices of her masked gunmen. MacRay smiles and replies, “It might be harder than you think.”While the couple are tending to her flower garden (not an euphemism), the infamous foursome is being hunted by Special Agent Adam Frawley (a solid Jon Hamm), a no-nonsense FBI leader and an outsider in the impervious blocks of Charlestown. The suspense builds and the stakes escalate as Frawley closes in on the team. Meanwhile, MacRay slides along the moral spectrum, pulled in opposite directions by his new love and a burning desire to finally escape versus a lifetime of brotherly bonds and rotten genetics.
Affleck portrays the ambivalent MacRay with strength and determination, and with the same hometown swagger he contributed to Good Will Hunting. Jeremy Renner in The TownRenner is a natural, dropping his R’s like he was raised a Townie and boiling with fierce intensity. In supporting roles, Blake Lively delivers a breakout performance as Doug’s trashy ex-flame, Pete Postlethwaite is chilling as “The Florist,” and Chris Cooper is commanding in his single scene.The screenplay, co-written by Affleck and based on the novel “Prince of Thieves” by Chuck Hogan, occasionally feels contrived and tapers towards its conclusion, but plots a riveting series of events, including a white-knuckle car chase through Boston’s labyrinthine streets and a memorable face-off between Affleck and Hamm.Affleck’s sophomore effort is intense, incredible, and further redemptive for an artist taking tremendous strides to reinvent himself.
4 out of 5.
