The Town
 

Just saw this movie tonight. It's pretty good, but I'd stop short of calling it "Heat". It does have some nice loud shootouts that are directed pretty well, though I guess it's hard for us to take it too seriously; after all, Ben Affleck would have us believe that Boston is crawling with bank robbers armed with HK416s (which they fire one-handed from moving vehicles).

All told, I'm glad I saw this rather than "Takers".

I heard it wasn't that good.

Just don't go into it expecting the world. Or rather, don't take this movie quite as seriously as it takes itself sometimes.

I'll probably Netflix it when it comes out

I see this movie as a modern take on John Dillinger.

It was pretty cool, ending kinda sucked though, left way too open.

So the gun play action is good. Nice to hear that

Theres a scene where a swat member takes down a bad guy with and ar-15 and manually racks the charging handle like its a bolt action.

Maybe he had a malfunction. I need to watch this movie to see for myself.

It was obvious it was shown to look cool, its right after he hit a bad guy

One other thing (related to the movie itself, not the guns): Ben Affleck should not have cast himself as the protagonist in this film. I agree with the Salon reviewer who pointed this out - it makes him look too vain. What I would have liked to see is him playing either Jeremy Renner's or Jon Hamm's roles (either of which would have surely been more challenging and would have demonstrated his versatility as an actor...if he'd been up for the challenge).

And with all due respect to Jeremy Renner, he's a good actor, but he had no business playing opposite Affleck. I think I spent most of the movie wondering how Doug (Affleck's character) could be intimidated by him. He's like a foot shorter, and much skinnier. The scene where he kicks Doug's ass and pistol-whips him was just sooo unbelievable that it's not even funny.

Just saw the movie today and it was pretty good. When Jeremy was using that Tec-9 running across the street was nice acting and shooting