When Crime, Love and Redemption intertwines.

Rating: 8/10 (8 October 2010)

First of all, The Town is a no – gimmick film. It is straightforward, sincere and believable. It is no Kubrick or Nolan but this Ben Affleck's sublime film led me back to see the beauty behind the mundane. It is honest to its core showing the dark realization beneath the real town of Charlestown.
Ben Affleck playing Doug MacRay, a heist master designing every detail for a team of bank robbers and who after surveying a bank manager intrinsically involved in their latest attempted heist, inexplicably falls in love with. Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall) the bank manager who is involved and abducted, is completely unaware of the man he's about to meet and cling with days just after her traumatic experience at the bank.
Series of events led Affleck to re – assess himself to life. He wants out of the team as he utterly falls for Claire, but as we all know it is always easier said than done. Variables in his life like his best friend and brother like half James Coughlin played effortless by Jeremy Renner, makes it hard to tear the chain off. Added up by having an unfinished business with Fergus "Fergie" Colmes an institution in the robbery business played notoriously by Pete Postlethwaite (The Usual Suspect and Inception), makes it "unrivetedly" harder.
Heist has always been a topic of film. But as for the self – confessed critics only few have accomplished to succeed and deliver. This newest said film however, pleases to its hype. At this point, you would already know just by hearing and reading every praise and complement it deserves. I can speak for myself, and I say it has proved its worth.
The direction is superb. Its heist presentation is believable, something I haven't seen in this type of films for a while. Affleck is a serious director and from now on, I see him as a director to be reckoned with. As for the cast, everyone lived up to its bill. Special mention, Jeremy Renner who's a heck of an actor here and proved to me that Hollywood needs him, another is Jon Hamm proving that he could stand on his own far from his comfort show Madmen.
This film is quite moving, far from any heist movie ever made today with an exception of few. It flow its power through its gutsy screenplay and a climax that depicted the brutal road to redemption. Thanks to Chuck Hogan for letting Affleck transform such a magnificent book into a powerful medium. Film.