Synopsis
Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.
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Cast
- Ben AffleckDoug MacRay
- Jeremy RennerJames "Jem" Coughlin
- Rebecca HallClaire Keesey
- Jon HammFBI S.A. Adam Frawley
- Blake LivelyKrista Coughlin
- SlaineAlbert "Gloansy" Magloan
- Pete PostlethwaiteFergus "Fergie" Colm
- Owen BurkeDesmond "Dez" Elden
- Titus WelliverDino Ciampa
- Chris CooperStephen MacRay
Recommendations
- 91
Entertainment Weekly
A rich, dark, pulpy mess of entanglements that fulfills all the requirements of the genre, and is told with an ease and gusto that make the pulp tasty. - 90
Boxoffice Magazine
If "Heat" and "The Departed" had a baby, the result might come close to The Town, a riveting and explosive crime thriller and one of the year's best pictures. - 80
Variety
The behind-the-camera talent Ben Affleck displayed so bracingly in "Gone Baby Gone" is confirmed, if not significantly advanced, in The Town. Again proving a fine director of actors (this time with himself in a starring role), Affleck delivers another potent, serious-minded slice of pulp set on Boston's meanest streets, where loyalty among thieves runs thicker than blood. - 80
Newsweek
Affleck directed, stars in, and co-wrote The Town, a suspenseful, fiercely paced movie about bank robbers that is also about love, brotherhood, and the desperate need to escape a crooked life. It proves that "Gone Baby Gone," his accomplished directing debut, was no fluke. - 80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
In The Town, he (Renner) doesn't signal that Jem is a sociopath... It's a deeply unnerving performance, beyond good or evil. - 75
Boston Globe
A pretty decent crime drama - not a patch on the best parts of his directorial debut, 2007's "Gone Baby Gone,'' but it's moody and grim and engrossing if you approach it with the right expectations. - 70
The New Yorker
Affleck the movie director makes you truly, badly want his bunch of ne'er-do-wells to pull off their heists without a scratch, and you can't ask for much more than that. [20 Sept. 2010, p. 120] - 70
Village Voice
It's good enough at least that you wish it was better.
