The Town directed by Ben Affleck was a very adventurous movie. Affleck plays a tough mobster from Charlestown named Dougy Mac Ray, who gets him self into great trouble. The movie starts out with Dougy and his friends walking into a bank dressed nun costumes with guns. They handle the robbery very carefully leaving no evidence to their identities. While in the robbery, they kidnap a bank manager named
The Town was alright. It wasn’t a movie that I wouldn’t recommend to buy right when it comes out in DVD but good enough to have seen once. Although the movie did not over do the action sequences to explosions every scene but it did carry a lot of car chasing and gun fights. The acting was good. Affleck’s character was convincing enough but though I did not feel he truly was his character. Even though Affleck tries to become a heartless mobster, his “good” guy persona comes out in this film, which ruins the feel of the story. It was a little too much of a good ending that didn’t seem realistic enough. It seemed as though as why would the “good” guy be a part of such bad things, which shows why it wouldn’t be so realistic. It felt a bit cliché to me. I felt like I had seen and knew what was going to happen next. The way things were shot could have been more exciting as well. There wasn’t enough interesting shots that lead to the suspense of the story. The cinematography could have helped with that. In all, this movie did not stand out as an incredible film but it did not disappoint me.Claire Keesey. Dougy notices her beauty and is kind to her even in the kidnapping. After being released from the mobsters, Claire is under close watch from not only the FBI but the mobster themselves. Dougy volunteers to watch over Claire but he can’t help himself from falling in love with her. Since Claire was blindfolded and disoriented, she has no idea that her new love is also one of the kidnapers. Through her, Dougy tries to change his dangerous life so he can gain courage to tell her who he is. Although Dougy tries to get out of his current troubles, he finds himself in too deep with the law and the older mobsters of Charlestown. He learns that it isn’t too late to change his life around, even if it costs him everything he has now.
There seems to be a little bit of a formatting problem with your review (part of the review got cut and placed at the bottom).
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At the beginning you say that Doug and his compatriots rob the bank in nun masks, but they were actually wearing grim reaper masks. The nun masks didn't surface till near the end of the movie when they botch an armed truck robbery.
You say that Affleck played the 'good guy' when he should have been a heartless mobster; I don't think that Doug's character was supposed to be heartless. At the beginning of the movie, when Doug is arguably the most uncaring, he still is kind-hearted when he prevents Jem from killing Claire. After this he is not so much a good guy as a guy who just wants out of the gang. He wasn't some idealist who, for some reason, got mixed up with the wrong people. His father was a bank robber, and the area he grew up in promoted the gang lifestyle. I'll admit that his change of heart seemed to happen quite quickly, but we do get a feeling that he was beginning to be disillusioned at least by the end of the first robbery.
I agree with you, Ben Affleck's goog guy persona definately resignated throughm, and yes why would he have such a concious yet continue to do wrong? He seemed tough enough the whole movie, he escaped most of the danger, so why would he not consider leaving allready. Good post very interesting.
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