Ben Affleck plays a professional thief who falls for a bank manager (Hall) after a dangerous heist. He struggles with this newfound relationship whilst evading a tenacious FBI agent (Hamm) looking to catch him and his crew before they rob another bank.
Without a shadow of a doubt, The Town was one of my Top Three films of 2010. Its placement there is easily justifiable; from the moment it begins, there isn't a single thing that is wrong with it. It is simply perfect.
The film is Ben Affleck's second time in the director seat. 2007 saw his directorial debut with Gone Baby Gone, with Affleck's brother Casey taking the lead role, and it demonstrated that Ben is not just an excellent actor, he's also got a great eye for making movies too. The three years since Gone Baby Gone have clearly just improved Affleck's directorial finesse, because he has somehow managed to exceed the excellence of his debut, bringing utter brilliance to The Town. And not only is it an amazing success in that sense, but it is twice as impressive given that Affleck also takes the lead role and is truly incredible in it.
Alongside Affleck, actor Jeremy Renner was acclaimed for his performance in the film, and rightly so, being nominated for Best Male Supporting Actor in last month's Academy Awards. The entire cast's performances were absolutely flawless, from John Hamm's determined FBI agent through to Blake Lively's drug addict, everyone truly shined from start to finish.
Going straight to Number One at the U.S. Box Office, the film has gone on to profit more than $100 million, from a $37 million budget, which is beyond admirable for a director's second film. Affleck clearly shows he has nothing to prove.
The film's Blu-Ray release is quite simply spectacular, and is certainly worth investing in to add to your collection. It comes with the extended edition of the film as well as the theatrical release, and both the picture and sound quality are stunning in High Definition. It is truly a must-have, with something in it to appeal to almost everyone.
Based on the novel 'Prince of Thieves', by Chuck Hogan, and is based on the fact that the town of Charlestown, Boston was once the setting for endless numbers of bank robberies and armoured car robberies. This is its premise. But it moves beyond just the typical crime film genre to incorporate aspects of other genres too, and ultimately achieves something that transcends them all.
It is this transcendence that truly marks it as something special, and it is for this that it rates so highly in my favourite films to be released last year. The cast and crew have created something instantly memorable and entirely eye-opening with this film, and it deserves to be ranked amongst the highest tiers of your favourite films of all time, as it does in mine.
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Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play Ben Affleck directs and stars in this gritty heist thriller from the mean streets of Boston Brit actress Rebecca Hall ('Red Riding Trilogy') and John Hamm ('Mad Men's' Donald Draper) also star in this ultra-tense Oscar-tipped tale of a career criminal who falls in love with one of his victims As he plans a job that could result in his gang's biggest score ever a longtime thief plans a way out of the life and the town while dodging the FBI agent looking to bring him and his bank-robbing crew down In addition to heading an electrifying cast Ben Affleck also directed and co-wrote this suspenseful critically-acclaimed crime thriller that unfolds - and often explodes - across gritty Boston locations Actors Ben Affleck Rebecca Hall Jon Hamm Jeremy Renner Blake Lively Slaine Owen Burke Titus Welliver Pete Postlethwaite Chris Cooper Dennis McLaughlin Corena Chase & Brian Scannell Director Ben Affleck Certificate 15 years and over Year 2010 Screen Widescreen Languages English - Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English ; English for the hearing impaired Duration 2 hours and 5 minutes (approx)
Crime drama, directed by Ben Affleck and based on the award-winning novel, 'Prince of Thieves', by Chuck Hogan. Affleck also stars as Doug MacRay, one of four masked criminals who rob a bank. Doug falls for one of the bank workers, Claire (Rebecca Hall), who is distressed after the robbery. Claire, unaware Doug was one of the robbers, reciprocates his feelings. Can Doug keep up the facade or will the law catch up with him?
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