Ben's "Answer" to "The Departed"

Rating: Null/10 (17 September 2011)

I wanted to like this movie, and Jon Hamm and Jeremy Renner do a really good job. But sorry, people, this movie is completely unbelievable. Here's why: The assistant manager at a bank is robbed and taken hostage at gunpoint, then dropped off on the beach, blindfolded. The bad guys take her ID so they know where she lives. After a mere couple of days, she blissfully goes to the laundromat, talks to strangers and then finds herself getting into a relationship with a previously unknown man, who tells her to not go to the cops to discuss more details on the heist.
Come on, what would you do after going through such a life-threatening ordeal AND the culprits knew who you were and where you lived? Move to another city? Stay with your parents or a friend? Quit your job and lay low? No, this woman does the normal thing: STAYS IN HER SAME PLACE, KEEPS HER JOB AND THINKS NOTHING OF TALKING TO STRANGERS PRYING HER FOR INFORMATION. TOTALLY BELIEVABLE! Also, the FBI has about 20 people on the case, but they can't do 24-hour surveillance. Makes sense -- it's only the FBI. Oh, also they can't do a GPS trace on a cell phone to realize that Ben's call to his lady is coming from directly across the street. Yes, I can totally see that.
2/10, as there was some good acting, but seriously, watch "The Departed" again rather than this wanna-be.