A very well developed drama

Rating: 9/10 (19 July 2015)

The movie is about a crew who robs banks and armored trucks. But one day they rob a bank and they take a hostage. They set her free, but someone has to follow her. The one that has to follow her is Doug (Ben Afflec) He then falls in love with Claire (Rebecca Keesey) Doug tries to retire but decides to take two more jobs...
The movie is also portrayed by the view of two cops, how they try to track down the crew of Doug. these cops are Adam Frawley (John Hamm) He is like the bad and driven cop. And the other cop is Dino Ciampa (Titus Welliver) he is a more gentle cop.
The directing of the movie is done very well. A thing that I didn't like was the shaky cam. When there where action/ fight scenes there was often some shaky cam. this style of filming made it hard to see what was going on. But the heist scenes were filmed very well which weighs against my previous disadvantage. These scenes were also quite thrilling. The car chasing scenes are pretty good.
The acting in 'The town' was very well done. I really liked Jeremy Renner character (James Coughlin). THis is one of Jermeys best roles (in my opinion). Also Blake Lively did a good job. She was very convincing. Ben acted less good, but his character was very well developed. They start working on his character when Doug and Claire are talking to each other, and Doug starts talking about how his mother left him. This was a very well written scene and also one of my favorites. the dialogue is overall also very well. Another scene that I liked is when Doug goes to Coughlin and says: 'I need your help. I can't tell you what it is, you can never ask me about it later, and we're gonna hurt some people.' then Coughlin says: 'Whose car are we gonna take?' This is really funny in the movie, and this isn't the only funny scene. The moments that were meant funny genuinely turned out to be funny. The movie doesn't have a lot of these moments, but that is just because this is a drama and not a comedy...
A thing thing that I liked is that they also filmed from the view of the police, this gave a interesting take on the movie. The love story of Doug and Claire is also good, it didn't fell to forced. But now something I didn't really like was that you don't get to know the rest of the crew that much. So when they die at the end, you don't really feel sad, or care about them. The only person I cared about when he died is Coughlin. this is because they focus more on him. When Gloansy died it was funny and sad, it was funny because of the things he said, and sad because he gave his own live to save Doug and Coughlin.
Now that I have said what I wanted to say, I'll give you some individual scores:
Directing: 8/10
Writing: 9/10
Acting: 9/10
Thrilling: 8.5/10
That is a total of 34.5/40.On ten that would be a 8.6/10. Which is rounded: 9/10