Deserved high ratings and praise

Rating: 8/10 (10 August 2011)

This past month, this movie was on the movie channels, over and over. I trust that people who had not seen it got a chance to do so by now and if that wasn't enough, word of mouth should also have sealed the deal of the financial success of the movie. I loved it. I'd be suspicious of those who did not; avoid these people because who knows what they're capable of. Yeah yeah everybody's entitled to their opinion and I certainly don't hold back writing mine, but it's like the Goth people, if you know what I mean.
Affleck did a superb job directing and was also quite good in his role as Doug MacRay. Jeremy Renner has proved again what powerful characters he's capable of playing. Renner is as believable an Irishman as he can be a redneck. In Renner's lesser known flicks he's also played some scary dudes (guidelines preclude me from using the word M**F**) such as Fred in "A little trip to heaven" and Jeffrey Dahmer in "Dahmer". As Brian Gamble in "S.W.A.T.", he was not as scary as he was intense. I was most pleased to see the see the luscious Rebecca Hall; I'm sorry if using the term offends some but I can't help it if I think she's hot as well as an accomplished actor.
Affleck has managed to do what very few actors have over time, utter words, a line or an expression, that becomes famous in of itself, and that line was: " I need your help. I can't tell you what it is; you can never ask me about it later and we're going to hurt some people." It's as classic as Eastwood's "Do you feel lucky punk?" or "Go ahead; make my day!"