If you ask me, what would it take for a cliched story ( gangsters, irish neighbourhood, boston, a wicked chief, does it ring a bell?) to pull off,I would say the performances, but if you say its 2 hours and some mins long, I would probably say "nothing".
Its a story about the infamous charlestown neighborhood and how a young man, expert in meticulously planning the bank robberies, gets involved with a girl and wants to leave this crime infested neighborhood to start a new life.
Now if you have watched a lot of movies, there are certain points in the above paragraph that would really get you interested. Meticulous planning, Love, crime infested neighborhood, but alas none of these are given enough weight in the movie. Wait, but did I not say it was 2 hours long? yes it was, but the plot hops between one too many relationships, friendship, father-son, amorous love.
The positives, the performances are excellent, Ben Affleck as Doug MacRay, rebecca hall as Claire, do justice to their roles, but one person who stands out is Jeremy Renner as James coughlin.
Bottom line: Go watch this movie if are in a patient mood and ready to spare sometime for the watching the onscreen performances.
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