The Rip movie review – Netflix reunites Damon & Affleck for a sweaty, bullet-riddled January blast
Key takeaways
- Add ARY News on Google Early January is where studio slates go to hibernate, but Netflix keeps treating the month like prime summer real estate.
- The ensuing interrogation introduces us to Lieutenant Dane Dumars (Damon), the task-force brain, and his human-battering-ram partner JD Byrne (Affleck).
- A tip sends them to a pastel suburban home where the attic hides ten times the money they expected.
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Add ARY News on Google Early January is where studio slates go to hibernate, but Netflix keeps treating the month like prime summer real estate. Enter The Rip movie, a 130-minute Miami vice of a thriller that drops Ben Affleck and Matt Damon into a stash-house stand-off over twenty million in cash.
Director Joe Carnahan hasn’t had a budget this beefy since 2011’s The A-Team, and he spends every dime on slick gun-fu, neon-pink sunsets, and the simple joy of watching two forty-something movie stars argue about morality while loading assault rifles.
A murdered detective kicks things off. The ensuing interrogation introduces us to Lieutenant Dane Dumars (Damon), the task-force brain, and his human-battering-ram partner JD Byrne (Affleck). Both are veterans of the department’s “rip” unit—squads that raid drug dens and legally pocket the proceeds.