The Town

Rating: 9/10 (15 October 2010)

Background and insight: I wanted to see this film from the moment I watched the trailer. Now I've been watching films/movies for as long as I have any visual memories and I know how easy it can be to make a film look good in a trailer. But the trailer for the Town contained all the elements of a great film. This was the difficult 2nd film for Ben Affleck. Gone Baby Gone was received well on release although it did get caught up is a small amount of controversy because of the similarities in plot to the real world tragic disappearance of Madeleine McCann. It proved to be a solid film, well written, well cast and well directed by Affleck. Critics then as critics do, started to suggest it was a fluke. What did Affleck do? He upped the stakes. This time with a bigger budget, much more ambitious plot and cast himself in the leading role. Not only that, but the trailer suggested action sequences to rival one of cinema's finest heist movies, Heat. Affleck stars, directs and co-writes the film which this time is a big studio film with a modest budget of $37 million, of which from the film I watch, you get to see every cent on the screen.
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