Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are on the stage of their careers the place they look like doing motion pictures collectively nearly fully so it may be an excuse to hang around with each other. Take the brand new trailer we’ve for Netflix’s cops-turned-robbers throwback thriller, The Rip. Directed by Joe Carnahan of Smokin’ Aces and The Gray fame, it seems to be a reasonably fundamental action-adjacent programmer of the sort that, say, Pacino and De Niro would’ve made collectively 20 years in the past (so not Warmth).
Which is to say, it’s being marketed, not un-persuasively, on the enchantment of watching Affleck and Damon working collectively once more. Hey, it labored within the winsome Nike meets MJ film, Air, and fueled what might be Ridley Scott’s most underrated historic epic, The Final Duel. Additionally like that latter film, a variety of The Rip appears to be about these famously loving buddies taking part in guys who don’t like one another.
Within the case of The Rip, this comes courtesy of the pair being over-seasoned and world-weary Miami detectives who uncover a bag full of cash stashed in a derelict home. Inevitably loyalties begin to stray, and a formidable supporting solid that features Steve Yeun, Sasha Calle, and awards season-frontrunner Teyana Taylor will most assuredly discover themselves caught within the center. Nonetheless, the center of the advertising appears fully based mostly round watching Affleck and Damon onscreen collectively once more, this time as rivals turned enemies quicker than you’ll be able to say The Treasure of Sierra Madre.
And we’ll be sincere that seems like a variety of enjoyable. Nonetheless, as followers of each actors and their uncommon Hollywood story of lasting friendship and collaboration, we can’t assist however marvel if it isn’t time for the pair to do one other film the place they’re buddies onscreen once more? Famously, they gained their Authentic Screenplay Oscar collectively for co-authoring Good Will Searching, a film wherein they starred as hardknock Boston buds who had been journey or die till Affleck’s character instructed Will Searching to actually journey on with out him.
