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An interesting but unrealistic plot recycled from a novel. It does certainly keep your attention on the screen most of the way through, however.

First of all it’s a Kurt Russell movie, always a good thing. Secondly, it’s tremendously assured, crisply created by a master movie craftsman. Last but not least, it portrays a classic grim-trigger game, where a dozen marooned guys have to kill one comrade after another upon determining that th…

The Town – a beefy treat for fans of crime drama from Ben Affleck, now a writer-director-star triple threat. Staying close to his boyhood home, Affleck romanticizes bank robbers from the Irish-American projects adjacent to prosperous Boston. When one of them falls for the manager of a bank th…

I’m a big fan of mob flicks, but this movie didn’t impress me as much as many others. It is very entertaining, the cast can’t be beat, and the action keeps the movie moving along. However, Costner’s role was a bit cheesy (was Elliot Ness cheesy too?), and I would have liked to see more from DeNiro