The Town

It’s a terrible title, but I’ll be damned if it’s not a good movie. Ben Affleck is strikingly, scarily adept as a director. He makes a better Micheal Mann movie than Michael Mann can. The cast is all superb. I’ve never seen Blake Lively in anything but SNL. She looks like she got run over by a Legal Sea Foods truck and she was great. The plot’s not all that original, a typical heist yarn, but the execution by Affleck and company is positively first-rate. I was very impressed by Gone Baby Gone. Here, Affleck shows off his actors, moves the camera and builds suspense better than most seasoned pros. To put it another way... It was a hell of a lot better than Public Enemy.