Ending Spoiled the Good Movie

Rating: 5/10 (16 August 2013)

Most of the thriller movies have one or two side stories going on with the main story. The Town is not any different. Its main story is about a gang of people who specialize in robbing banks. The side stories are about Doug (Ben Affleck)'s mother and his unrealistic romantic relations with the bank manager Claire (Rebecca Hall) of the same bank he had robbed earlier. While the planning and carrying out of the heists is very thrilling, the side stories are boring and slow paced.
Doug and his gang successfully carry out two robberies but in the third robbery they get surrounded by the police and the FBI. Unable to find a way out they wear police uniforms and try to walk out. All of them are shot dead by the Police, except Doug. He plans to escape the town with his bank manager girlfriend Claire. But FBI is closing on them both, so he leaves for Florida alone. The criminal couple stays free. This ending leaves the viewer very much unsatisfied.
An alternative ending where the couple tries to run away from FBI with lots of car chasing scenes, jumping through buildings and culminating in the death of both of them by police firing would have been more fitting to a thriller movie.