The Town

6/28/2013

Good movie with good cast. No new plot but well performed and entertaining.

5/7/2019

You know people get up everyday, tell themselves something's gonna change their lives. The Town is Charlestown, Boston, a place where crime is a way of life. Following a bank robbery, professional thief Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) has to keep a watch on bank manager Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall) because after using her as hostage leverage during escape from the heist, she is the only witness who could possibly identify his gang. But once the two meet they start to fall for each other, forcing MacRay to re-evaluate his life in Charlestown. It's a re-evaluation that will upset a lot of people close to him and the gangster boss who hires him, and all this at a time when FBI agent Adam Frawley (Jon Hamm) is closing in on the gang. One of the most startling things about Ben Affleck's second

8/27/2022

**Affleck does an excellent job, where Jeremy Renner particularly stands out.** I really enjoyed this film, where action, drama and romance are mixed in a well-balanced and intelligent way. The script is set in Boston, and takes us to meet a group of professional bank robbers, some of them with criminality in their blood and with incarcerated parents. The group makes an ostentatious robbery in which they force the manager to open the safe, and to go with them in the escape, as a human shield. Later, fearing that she might recognize them, one of the robbers decides to keep an eye on her, but ends up approaching her and starting a more personal relationship, which could threaten the group's illegal activities. The screenplay is very well written and is intelligent in the way it present

6/23/2026

There is something almost Dickensian about the Boston community in which "Doug" (Ben Affleck) and "Coughlin" (Jeremy Renner) live. They are robbers, bank robbers, and fairly successful and audacious ones at that and the rules of their turf are that nobody works with the law. One of their raids sees them take bank manager "Claire" (Rebecca Hall) hostage for a short time before releasing her unharmed. Then, realising that she, too, is a local gal "Doug" decides to make contact with her - ostensibly to establish that she remembers nothing from the heist that she can pass on to pursuing FBI man "Frawley" (John Hamm). As he wheedles his way into her affections, he begins to fall for her as well as to learn that she has been slightly selective about the information she has shared with the Feds.