The town is Charlestown, Boston's tight enclave of lower class resentment, ignorance, violence and crime. Townies have been much-featured in film lately...before this film the best was probably Monument Ave...and I wonder if it's because it's the same scenario as The Wire but with white people.
Affleck grew up in Boston so at least he gets the accents right. Here, adapting a novel, he has created a crime film that's as slick, fast-paced and engrossing as any I've seen. He even manages to create a semi-sympathetic character who learns he is trapped in his home town web and won't be allowed to escape. These guys even try to rob Fenway Park...described in the film as the cathedral of Boston.
I have to admire the skill on display here...even if it serves an over-familiar story.
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