Matt Damon and Casey Affleck's heist movie is one part Boston noir, one part knucklehead comedy and a total flashback to a bygone era of filmgoing.
. True story! So are his friends and professional colleagues the Affleck brothers — Casey and the other guy — and they seem to like to going back and filming in their hometown whenever possible. Watch these guys run around Beantown in movies likeand you get an inherent sense that they know these streets, they’ve tippled in those taverns, they’ve pissed in those alleyways after hours. Drop these actors in the middle of Death Valley or West Texas or, and they’ll make a believer out of you.
And you can easily see the vibe director Doug Liman is going for, i.e. the mojo of those quirky mid-1990s movies that tried channeling 1970s crime farces and big-city-grit flicks — think— complete with a deep bench of character actors. That it gets close to conjuring that bygone moviegoing pleasure is the best thing about this oddball throwback. No one does these kinds of films anymore. It’s scratching a much-needed niche itch.
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