Best Move in Ben Affleck's Career?

Rating: 8/10 (27 May 2010)

Quick review: Ben Affleck has already had a pretty busy career, and has won Oscar gold with "Good Will Hunting"... but this may be his best move yet. Choosing not to cast himself, but instead his brother Casey (who is a decent actor and also doesn't have the distraction factor of Ben) was wise. Much of the plot is hard to believe, but one suspects this is how the book is, and Affleck condensed it into a film that makes sense and still tells a complex story... I'm tempted to read the book, because if the "book is always better than the movie" is true... I can't imagine how great this book must be. Affleck sells not just this film, but the original story.