For the last few days, we’ve had the restless itch to watch a good Hollywood movie.
Voila, our wish was granted this afternoon with The Town.
Featuring Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner and Rebecca Hall, The Town is a lovely tension-filled crime thriller set in Boston.
A crime thriller set in Boston? Aha, reminds you schmucks of Martin Scorsese’s 2006 film The Departed, doesn’t it?
While the setting and the broad crime theme are the same, The Town and The Departed are indeed two different movies.
Departed was about the Irish mob and its infiltration into the ranks of the police while The Town is about a bunch of bank robbers who’ve been hitting local banks in Charlestown, a Boston suburb.
Doug MacRay, played by Ben Affleck, is the lynch pin of the robbers gang. When the bank alarm is tripped during their hit on a bank, they take the pretty bank manager Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall) with them as hostage. Nice move, eh. There you have the perfect opportunity for a romantic angle.
Indeed! 
And where you have the bank robbers, you’ve got to have the hard-driving FBI agents on their trail, right.
So we have FBI agent Adam Frawley (Jon Hamm) and his team going around beating up people in their hunt for the perpetrators and finally, in desperation, planting fingerprint evidence to get the gang in for questioning. Does it work?
As befitting a good action movie, the movie proceeds at a very brisk clip and the bank robbery scenes and the getaways are neatly executed. Continue reading »
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