The Town - Heist movie at their best and one o'the finest Ensemble

Rating: 9/10 (19 February 2011)

Ben Affleck's The Town is a superb crime thriller. The movie is directed and also co-written by Ben Affleck, and it has a lot of good actors in the ensemble cast.
With a great opening scene of bank robbing, the movie starts well. The movie is about the people of the town of a boston suberbs called Charlestown, which is shown as the breeding ground for bank robbers and drug dealers. Doug Macray and Jem Coughlin and their gang pull off a bank heist and also take the manager, Claire as hostage, and also release her later. Later they finds that Claire lives in their own Charlestown and Doug decides to follow her when she was already contacted by FBI. The story revolves as it shows Doug's life and his feelings towards Claire and also their other tasks( robbing o'course).
Ben Affleck, himself, as Doug Macray manages to pull off an excellent performance, so does Rebecca Hall as Claire. But the movie's stand-out performance belongs to Jeremy Renner and Jon Hamm as Jem Coughlin and FBI officer Frawley respectively. Jeremy Renner, ( after a superb performance in "The Hurt Locker") as the brutal and a little eccentric criminal, is fantastic. Very well deserved Best supporting Actor Academy Award nomination. Blake Lively as Jem's sister is sexy just as well as brilliant, and one have to mention Chris Cooper as Doug's father in only one scene, just great to watch.
Thumbs up for this one and highly recommended.