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This film lives up to its name and gives you all the thrills you'd expect from a crime drama , intense tentions, explosive action, and just total carnage, this film is a class act, great buy.

Great film, full of edge-of-your-seat tension! Directed by Ben Affleck, the film depicts a Town where bank robbery is a common trade, passed down from father to son. But what happens when you try to leave it all behind?

I did enjoy this pleasantly entertaining film. Whether you will like this very much depends on if you can warm to Ben Affleck or not, as he stars and directs. He directs this bank robbery action drama whereby his gang take a hostage, he then pursues her and falls in love with her. Cue, 'one last job then we escape' storyline and plenty of quality action (car chases and cop shoot outs). The film luckily also stars the excellent rising star John Hamm (from Mad Men) who plays a serious FBI Agent, and Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner, also impressive as the bad boy. The main 3 actors are all very good but not much can be said for the rest of the casting, with Rebecca Hall (Dorian Gray and Frost/Nixon) not very likeable and dim, and an awfully placed talented Pete Poselthwaite (recently in Inception) as gang boss and awkward junkie ex-girlfriend Blake Lively. The film is well shot in Boston, with some awesome city air shots standing out amongst the dreadful Irish-American accents. Affleck is good but the film does go quite soft and he resorts to his regular 'feel sorry for me' scene at one point, but there are also some warm funny moments and the action scenes and finale are entertaining enough.