Good, but not great.

Rating: 6/10 (15 February 2015)

Ben. Oh, Ben. We loved you and Matt for Goodwill. And yet, we can't forgive your for Gigli. There can be no two diametrically opposed movies ever. Gone Baby Gone was good, but not great, as Gone Girl is. We sit and wait for the action, the greatness, the imperious glorious abandon to come, and we are still waiting as the credits roll up the screen. What does this mean? It means Ben Affleck is no Martin Scorsese, no Robert Altman and no Steven Spielberg. No, he is mix between Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino, always falling painfully short of greatness. It is no wonder Jenner Garner wants to divorce him. And yet, there is a Hitchcockian flare underscoring his work, which to me shows great promise, great potential, that could eventually culminate into something as brilliant as "Strangers On A Train." Perhaps the problem is that Ben just needs to "Let himself go," trust in the force (instead of his producers) and man-up and grow some balls and unleash his true creative vision upon us. Because there is something seriously "held back" in your directorial debuts. Something causing the unleashing of your creative vision to be suppressed. What is it Ben? Fear? Loss? You have the potential, we can all see that. Now it's time to kick some a--.