Ben Affleck is quite the leading man. He is serious and good looking. A bit too much Ed Norton-depend on my husky voice-dramatic, but great none-the-less. I would like to see him in a true action film (a la Daniel Craig or Matt Damon). Jeremy Renner is a close second here, and plays the nearly psycho friend quite well. These two are Boston "Townies" from the Charlestown neighborhood where every third guy is a bank robber. Their crew robs a bank, takes the manager as a hostage and then releases her. Affleck befriends and then falls in love with this same manager while trying to surveil her to insure she doesn't know their identities. Of course, there are life choice to be made when "the next job" comes up, and they get made. Not quite unique enough to be a great film, but solidly good.
3 stars (out of 5)
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