The Town

Ben Affleck, continues his career as a director. Its not as good, as`` Gone baby gone'', It still works well enough

John Hamn, picks up a cheque, and tells the world his range is wider than Don Draper. Don’t get me wrong I like John Hamn, and I liked Gone baby Gone. However this is an obvious piece of cash in casting.
Its really odd to hear John Hamn swear, and threaten. As Don does not do that

In fact I think, it happens, in the Movie. Don tells his FBI partner to close the Bridge across the James. His partner is confused for a moment. Presume he thought What's got into Don?

Don's seems to be both an evidence collector and part of the the FBI tactical team. In real life most FBI agents never fire a shot

Affleck character mentions the CSI effect. CSI gives a false impression of the quality of evidence recovered from crime scenes. In fact John Hamn subverts its by asking for something that looks like a print

I hope the divine Miss Hall forgives me for confusing her with Michelle Monaghan

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0356017/. I last saw her in Vicki/Cristina

The plot involves series of heist set in Boston. The protangonist. Ben Affleck has one last job. He leads a gang which  robs armoured cars and banks.  There is a subtext about a working class area changing from what was solidly blue collar, now caught between the new middle, and the new lower. ( Ben's Single mother on off romantic interest is in a fight with a Somali. She is a junkie addicted to Oxy. -He exchanges her for a bank manager who lives in apartment, and gives it up to teach)One could argue like the Soprano's the film is about frustrated upward mobility. The Town, brings you back down. Affleck's character was an NHL draftee, but always kept fighting at camp His best friend, saved his life by shooting someone who objected to Affleck first, and kept his mouth shut and did his time. The techie of the gang, is caught because his sick days, are a matter of public record. Rather than a bribe and a promise to a foreman.

Pete Postlewaite does an Irish accent.  North of the Drumlins by the sound of it He also runs a florist shop as a front. His character is basically evil incarnate. He is another reminder of the change in the area. His culture supplied the symbols that affleck and his crew grew up with. The shamrocks and the fighting Irish Tattoo's

Its a lot of the same cast from gone baby gone.. I guess central casting has Boston Types. However its a pretty good support team

 Despite the films working class credentials they spend a lot of time tracing the tourist trails of Boston. The gang  rob Fenway park. We see a lot of Boston landmarks , the Market, the docks.

Jack Bristow plays the Bank Manager. He gets hit in the face with an assault rifle for his trouble. There is a security Guard who thought he was GI Joe

There is a young lad in Boston, who will be forever traumatised, when he see's the Gang, armed to the teeth, dressed as Nuns.

Comments

Learning Center said…
I thought about going to see that movie for Jon Hamm... but it's really not my kind of movie so I didn't go. Hamm with a bulletproof jacket and a gun is not my thing. Anyway was he a decent actor without the great suits and the glued hair?
Malchera said…
I don't think its too much of a departure from Don Draper. His character was an insider and, mostly did set pieces, but he is always watchable.

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