The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review. There's a scene in Ben Affleck's "The Town" that expertly exploits the conversations we have with film characters. In critical moments, we urgently Here is a well-made crime procedural, and audiences are likely to enjoy it at that level, but perhaps the mechanics of movie crime got in the way of Affleck's.

I was really excited to watch The Town, I watched it with my best friend and she even said she liked it. The Town shows Affleck's ability at directing action sequences. Gone Baby Gone wasn't full of gunfights and It's obviously the Heat was influential in the making of this film.

The Town

It seems all movies that have robberies The Town does it's job as a movie and Ben Affleck has found himself a new career. The Town: movie review. ( R ) ( Monitor Movie Guide ). With a less cliché-ridden script, and fewer shootouts and chase scenes to pump up the temperature, "The Town" might have amounted to something more than an occasionally good movie about crooks in trouble. Ben Affleck directs himself in a strong blue-collar crime film with Rebecca Hall and Mad Men's Jon Hamm. this blue-collar crime opera commands attention, and he even gets away with some of the macho-sentimentalism that always tends to sink this kind of movie. Movie Review: The Town proves one thing beyond doubt: Ben Affleck is a better director than an actor. He creates a gritty crime drama, peppered with some memorable characters and action sequences that have an old world charm about them.

Trailer The Town

The movie about Irish gangsters in Boston who rob banks and armored trucks. Another one that falls into the same category is Also, a movie in an extremely similar vein of The Town is Widows by Steve McQueen & Gillian Flynn. You will love both of those.

Starring: Ben Affleck, Blake Lively, Chris Cooper and others. MRQE Metric: See what the critics had to say and watch the trailer. The best bank robbers in town are lead by Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck), who is the brains of the operations. Review: Well, once again I love it when actors direct movies and this one was satisfying.