Heat like

Rating: 8/10 (17 September 2010)

Ben Affleck is already a good director. Since "Gone baby gone", he made his place as a director. "The town" is a really good action movie, breathless, exciting. Affleck made a good choice with the casting: the amazing Jeremy Renner, himself for the essential. Affleck already knows how to direct a movie, he has got a really good talent for that. No doubt. The problem with "The town" is the screenplay: it looks like "Heat". A lot of events and twists are the same, but no spoiler here. Affleck is not as good as De Niro, and Jon Hamm not Al Pacino at all. So the comparison is not good for "The town", which seems like a little "Heat". The bad guys are more developed than the good ones, and that indicates the limits of the movie.
If we forgot this big default with the screenplay, this movies keeps good things: nice directing, rhythm, and empathy for the characters (the bad ones only).