I wrote this about "The Town" back at the beginning of the year when I created my lists:

  • Ben Affleck is a bank robber! Oh my! Affleck throws out some turds in between his good movies…jesus, I just looked and Affleck hasn’t had a good movie in a long, long, long time. 1997, "Good Will Hunting" and "Chasing Amy"…then crap, crap, crap, crap...
  • Anyway, Ben Affleck is a bank robber, along with Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker), and a couple other guys, along with some FBI agents and ladies (including Blake Lively). The movie apparently follows Affleck & his team after the heist as the FBI attempts to catch them. If they go “Reservoir Dogs” it could be good. Affleck is directing, so that might actually help this film, as “Gone Baby Gone” was great (also directed by Affleck). I could see it crash and burn if it’s a standard bank robber movie.
There is finally a trailer for this flick and I have to say, it looks great. I put it on my "Surprises of 2010" and if the movie holds up to the trailer it will be a surprise hit.

Of course it could end up being a standard "main guys is actually one of the bank robbers" movie, but they're already showing that Affleck is one of the guys behind the masks in the trailer, so there's probably more to it than this.

Looks good!

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/thetown/