The Town

                                               The Town

The Town is about a group of bank robbers who live in Charleston, Massachusetts which is a notorious town for producing bank robbers.  Ben Affleck is the director and he’s also the main character. Affleck plays Doug Macray who is former hockey player who is now the leader of a group who robs banks in Boston. During the first bank robbing of the movie James Coughlin, Maccray’s childhood friend, who is played by Jeremy Renner takes the bank’s manager, Claire Kessey, as a hostage but shortly after the robbery they realize that she lives also lives in Charleston. So as an attempt to find out what Kessey knows Macray begins to go out on dates with her. He finds out that she is talking to the FBI about the case but didn’t tell them about a fighting irish tattoo that one of the robbers had on his neck for her own protection. After a robbery were they almost got caught Macray tells Coughlin that he’s done because he wants to leave to Miami to get his life together finally, but when Macray goes to tell the same thing to Fergie, the guy they work for, he is threatened that it isn’t in Clarie’s best interesting for him to leave. So after being threatened Macray agrees to do a job where the group will try to rob Fenway Park after a four game series with the New York Yankees. My opinion of this movie is I thought it was a good movie. I really liked Ben Affleck’s acting in this movie. I just like the story of  how the bank robber dates the hostage to see what she knows but then starts to legitimately fall for her.