Review of The Town (2010) by Ken S — 04 Mar 2013

"The Town" is a really well made film starring, co-written and directed by Ben Affleck. For a while I was starting to think Affleck had given up on acting, he was in a string of bad movies and he always looked like he was phoning it in, but then he directed "Gone Baby Gone", which got good reviews.

..and now this. I think he is a talented director. The film is a good one in the heist genre, and it has well rounded characters all given life by good acting. It was an entertaining film with shoot outs, car chases, as well as quiet dark deep character study stuff.

I think that the true aspects of crime in Charlestown are probably embellished, but that didn't take away from a quality film.