He’s back, and he’s brought the city of Boston back with him. From the man who brought Boston to the silver screen in such popular dramas as Good Will Hunting and Gone Baby Gone, comes Ben Affleck’s latest Beantown piece, The Town. Town is an upcoming crime thriller that focuses on four bank robbers from the Boston neighbourhood of Charlestown, and their unrelenting game of cat-and-mouse with the FBI. This four-robber crew is led by Doug MacRay (Affleck), a career criminal who, after an extremely dangerous heist, falls in love with the bank manager (Rebecca Hall) of a bank that he and his crew had robbed. I know that sounds a bit corny, but we’ll give Affleck the benefit of the doubt for the time being. As the movie progresses, so too does the complicated relationship of our anti-heroic thief and his honourable citizen of a girlfriend. To make matters even more complex, MacRay is being pursued constantly by an FBI agent (Mad Men’s Jon Hamm - possibly the greatest name for a man’s man in history), who is trying desperately to catch MacRay, before another bank robbery opportunity can present itself.
The trailer for The Town makes the plot look thin and clichéd, but after having seen the likes of Good Will Hunting and Gone Baby Gone, I hope that director Affleck will have something refreshing hidden up his sleeve. As familiar as the plots seems, the cast looks absolutely terrific. With the likes of Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm, Rebecca Hall, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Chris Cooper, and Slaine, it is safe to say that The Town is beaming with A-list talent. Whether or not these well-known actors were able to do anything special with the movie’s script remains to be seen. The Town will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this September.
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