3.5 out of 5 stars
Ben Affleck has been a guilty pleasure actor of mine for probably forever (more so than Ryan Reynolds and yes Jennifer Lopez). Guilty pleasure actors are those that are fun to watch but aren't always at their best, they have potential but haven't reached it yet. Well Ben Affleck has found his calling with directing, this is his second directing gig and personally this is his best yet. The first was Gone Baby Gone which was good but Amy Ryan overshown his directing skills.
This movie is about a group of people who rob banks but one time Ben's character falls for the one they take hostage and begins to see her in the outside world. There is also a FBI agent, played by the brilliant Jon Hamm, who is dead set to catch the bank robbers and begins to get clues to finding them. The woman eventually finds out, as everyone knows she would and has a near nervous breakdown. At that point is where I kind of fall out of love with the movie until the ending. I do not like the parts with just the bank robbers.
Instead I love the parts with the guy and girl together and their troubled relationship. But the ending is the controversial part where you either love it or hate it. I personally LOVE IT!!! The ending is brilliant because it is both a sad and happy ending all rolled into one and it leaves room for the future which is so much fun. The possibility of what may come is where the mind loves to go-- I do not like to be told what happens instead I like to invent that myself. So I personally love the ending and love how love is such a major part of it. But it does show the consequences to ones actions-- which is so much needed in movies today.
Jeremy Renner is getting a lot of acting buzz for this movie and it is deserved but the one I would love to see get an acting nod is Rebecca Hall as the girlfriend and victim. She is brilliant in this movie just like she was two years ago with Vicky Christina Barcelona which she was just as amazing in!
This will probably get Oscar nominations and it will be well deserved as long as it is not in Best Picture (in my opinion there were better overall movies-- but writing and acting is top notch) if that makes sense.
Let me know what you think of the movie. Love it? Hate it?
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