Midweek Mention... The RIP

The RIP

Reegs: Ah, so we watched the rip.

Netflix is new. Gritty crime, thriller, siege,

Cris: Yeah.

Yeah. All, all, all the above, really.

Reegs: Yeah. Featuring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Ben Affleck, yeah.

Cris: Scott Atkins, which I didn't know that he will be in it. And you know, it kind of looks a bit like,

Reegs: His

Cris: like a brother.

Yeah. Like he,

Reegs: well in, is it the brother's Grim, they call him Scott Atkins is in it, and they call him the Ukrainian Ben

Affleck. Yeah, exactly. So, Yeah.

So yeah, he's in it as his brother. It's a large ensemble cast. It's a twisty, like we said, a twisty, turny, paranoid thriller. And it's a lot of, it's kind of set in the evening or the apart from the beginning part.

It's set over one night. Basically, yes. And much of the movie is Shad Night, and like we've talked about, Netflix, have been struggled to produce movies that were lit. Well, I am happy to say

Cris: this one was, you could see everything, what was going on. Yeah,

Reegs: yeah, you absolutely could. It was [00:01:00] lit beautifully and you could see all the, 'cause, all the scenes pretty much at set at night, and you could see them all, so that's great.

Yeah.

Cris: Yeah.

Reegs: And it starts with pretty much the death of Captain Jackie Veles. Yeah. I think it actually starts with Matt Damon being questioned by the FBI in his office. Yeah. And they say, did they buy your alibi? Or something like that. Which immediately starts you thinking. Ooh, why did he say it like that?

And that's how you'll feel about pretty much every character in this movie as you are, as you try to work out who the

Cris: well, they set the tone quite nicely with that at the beginning to with, because you don't really know, you, you know, there's been an interrogation and then we get the scene with Jackie where she speaks to someone on the phone who is an informant.

Yeah. That we kind of get that much and then she gets gunned down.

Reegs: Yeah, it's a pretty tense well shot action scene kind of in that quasi realistic style of heat or something like that with the weapons being discharged, you know, with a [00:02:00] lot of force. And I like the detail of her trying to, she can't send a message because there's too much blood on her phone.

Yeah. And yeah, she's eventually gunned down. She's the captain of the Miami. Police department and she's gunned down by two guys in balaclavas. Just before that, she manages to send a message and then chuck her phone into the river.

Cris: Into the river. And to be fair, I'm not, I'm not expert in, in, I dunno, murdering people, but you could see they're on the side of a river in a parking lot out on the side of the river.

And you can see whoever these guys with the balaclavas are. They know what they're doing because on the other side of the river, on the lake or whatever it is, you can see the police coming and you can see the blue lights and they just. Don't really run. No. They just kind of,

Reegs: they're not spooked.

Cris: Yeah.

They, they, they, it looks like they've done it before or they know what they're doing. Definitely. Yeah.

Reegs: This is a hit of some kind done by people who know what they're doing. Yeah. And I guess this is the incident that will send the FBI in to talk to Matt Damon and his team, the [00:03:00] Tactical Narcotics team, TNT. Yeah. Lot of acronyms

Cris: Oh yes. Yeah, yeah.

Reegs: Big acronym content if you like, that sort of thing.

Cris: It's generally I think war movies recently have been doing that. We watched that war Zone warfare. Oh, warfare. Yeah. And they, they had all sorts of, so

Reegs: lingo and that's part of what you enjoy about a movie like this is getting into the world and the lingo and all that. And so yeah. Matt Damon, who plays.

Dane.

that's right. He's

Cris: remember the surname, but

Reegs: he's leading Ben Affleck is JD Byrne. We've got er Batiste from one battle after another. Mike Rowe, Steven Yon we've got Catalina Sandino. She was in Ballerina. Yeah. So a good sort of ensemble cast. And they're all getting interrogated by Scott Atkins and his partner.

Cris: Yeah.

Reegs: Who they're just reeling off a whole list of essentially eight kind of accusations. J

Cris: more insinuation accusation. Yeah. It's more, it's more like, oh, so what did you, [00:04:00] so how, and the only one that really, well, to be fair, they saved Ben Affleck to the last to, and he's the only one smoking in the room.

Yeah. And he's the only one that's actually really almost, he's interrogating them. Yeah. Rather than the other way

Reegs: Well, he's very offended by the implication that. His team might be dirty or anyone on his team might be. And then, because you don't know at this point that it's his brother. Yeah. Obviously that takes it to another level and they end up having an all out brawl, don't they?

After they're separated by fisticuffs and that's when you find out it's Scott a Kins, the FBI agent is his brother. And then we get a little gratuitous shot of Affleck without his

Cris: I know. In the, in the great nick.

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: great shape.

Reegs: Everyone's in good nick in this as well. Damon as well covered in tattoos.

And tattoos are like a recurring kind of motif in this. And they have both a shared love of tattoos in real life. Affleck and

Cris: Are they okay. I didn't know that.

Reegs: Yeah. Damon's got a lot on his right arm. I think so.

Cris: Okay. They kind of have a chat. I [00:05:00] fucking hate being a police officer now.

All that kind of stuff in the, in the toilets. And then I didn't really understand what, what that chill out zone was, where they were doing the drifts

Reegs: I know. It's just where they hang out after work. They just play dominoes in like an abandoned car park or

Cris: Pretty much. And

Reegs: And like drink beer

Cris: because it's them, there's another unit from the police and then the DEA unit comes in an armored

Reegs: roll up in.

It's Carl Chandler and he rolls up in a fucking tank. Yeah. And like this bit is almost like, you know, almost like the fast and furious or whatever as they're

Cris: Where did I see that guy before?

Reegs: Kyle Chandler? Yeah. Oh,

he's been in Lots,

Cris: loads of

Reegs: I can't think

Cris: but I can't, I can't remember something. That is one thing that is where he was big.

He was in just the same kind of like the secondary actor, but

Reegs: good. I like him.

Cris: Yeah.

Anyway, he comes along and he's the da and they kind of have a chat about the budget. There's no overtime,

Reegs: and there's also, there, there's no overtime. There's, there's a lot of exposition here.

There's the VCAT [00:06:00] group, which was like a, a group of really antagonistic law enforcement who were badly trained. Were sort of. Put in the front lines of policing when they shouldn't have been and then were withdrawn.

Cris: Well, and there

Reegs: And redeployed corruption. Rampant corruption. And then allegations that there is a gang within the police, a secret knockoff gang whose job it is to identify like pile piles of money and then they go and take it for themselves.

Yeah. So like this is all hanging around in the

Cris: That's what they kind of chatting about and almost. Tongue in cheek, but that's how we get informed. Yeah. Yeah. And then they, Matt Damon comes out of the, well Dane comes out of the building and he's like, oh, I've got a tip.

Reegs: You've seen him get it on his phone?

Cris: Yeah. We've seen the, the message. Yeah. But

Reegs: is it a crime buster's tip or something

Cris: something like that. Something like a

Reegs: just like an anonymous tip off. But we've already seen him get it on his phone earlier. And it says big money or [00:07:00] whatever on the text. And then when he goes out, he tells each member of his team.

That it's a different, it's really shady. 'cause he's like, you know, he tells Ben Affleck it's 300 k, he tells Steven y it's a hundred and

75 to someone else. Yeah. And it feels really shifty in that

Cris: straight from as, as a viewer from the office like.

Reegs: Why is he doing that? And,

Cris: and because you gotta see the text. Obviously. I didn't rewind it, but I was thinking, I'm pretty sure it didn't say

Reegs: it didn't say any money at all. Sure. It didn't say

Cris: say the actual

Reegs: it just said a lot of money. Yeah. So yeah. And that is the joy of this film is really in trying to work out who is who and what's motivating them and all that sort of stuff.

And it is a good reveal.

Cris: 'cause even when they get, and we, we are gonna get out of the house, it's almost like a.

It felt almost like a scene from Barbie to me. When they drive and they all drive in these really cool cars,

Reegs: Yeah. It's like the Fast in

Cris: and then, and then no, but when they get to that, it almost looks like a. Almost like a plastic called the sac where Yeah, [00:08:00] all the houses look really pristine. The lawn looks really nice, but there's no car.

Reegs: It's a residential, it's a suburban residential zone and there's nobody there. Yeah. It's like completely empty. All these massive plots

Cris: And the only house that looks really shit, it's the one that they get a tip from and there's this young girl there.

Reegs: Yeah. And we get a nice bit of like police procedural stuff where they talk about how they're allowed to get in the house without a warrant. Like, you know, consent to search and the dog and all. They bring the dog along. Will Wilber? Wilbur.

Cris: Wilbur. Wilber Wilbur. Yeah.

Reegs: a bit of a star in this. I liked him and they pretty, they pretty quickly strong arm their way into that.

Cris: Yeah. Well, they tell her that they're looking for drugs. Yeah. And she's like, oh, I've got a bit of weed.

And she's like, well,

Reegs: They're like, no, we don't give a fuck

Cris: don't care about weed if you let us in. And, and she's like, oh, I don't want any pushy cop shit. And

Reegs: oh, and by the way, the dog has already gone ape shit. I didn't know this as a detail, but it's pissing all over the house.

Yeah. Which is apparently, like it's saying

Cris: that's where it's happy.

Yeah. It's here. Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: [00:09:00] And they let the dog in. They cleared the house, they let the dog in. It's been dilapidated. She said it was her grandmother's and was given to her. And

Cris: and it's in dispute of some sorts.

Reegs: It's in probate at the moment.

Probate,

Cris: yeah, that's the one.

Reegs: And so anyway, the dog goes absolutely fucking bananas about the attic. So up they go. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. The, the rest of the house is a shithole, and this attic is absolutely

Cris: it almost looks like a hospital room, right? Like nice and clean, freshly plastered, fresh paint, everything. And it's like,

Reegs: And naturally they ask her about it and she's like, I dunno, I've never been up there, blah, blah, blah. And it's not too long before they're knocking through the wall, isn't it? It's Affleck pulls a cord

Cris: from the socket,

Reegs: the socket, from the socket that's hanging out and it sort of pulls up this little partition and they look behind there and they can't, they're trying to work out what's there.

And I

Cris: I initially thought there was

Reegs: Yeah, that's what I thought.

Cris: Buckets. And then we find out that in the

Reegs: well, they smash the wall down and they get these, there's 14 buckets [00:10:00] in there. Yeah. And the first bucket has got over a million dollars in it, in cash, just labeled

Cris: Wrapped

Reegs: fuck me.

Cris: Really?

Reegs: Yeah. And immediately Damon goes really twitchy.

Yeah.

Cris: Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: takes the phones of everybody in the team straight away, off everyone. 'cause he's like, fuck, we found a lot of money. They're used to finding a hundred grand. Yeah. 200 grand. They reckon your top of their head's 20 million plus. Like, fuck, this is different

Cris: Well, that's what he said. He's like, this is 1.5 million or 1.8 million.

There's about 20 of them or whatever. If, if this is correct and they're all the same, like this one, it should be over 20 million here.

Reegs: but also that kind of money is gonna attract serious attention. And so we know already about the internal problems the police have, but also the cartel themselves.

Yeah. So he confiscates all the phones and he orders account on site, which is true police procedure to do a double count on the site [00:11:00] where it sees.

Cris: So at least to be, that's the thing I I, to be fair, I'm gonna do a little what do you call it,

thing here

and when I found a, a, a thing with, with money when I was working in a hotel, when I was working in Cyprus, and it was, I think 15 grand and because I went to school to bartending school.

And that was the thing that they tell you in bartending school, that if you find something, speak to your manager and you don't leave. If you found it, you take it together to whoever's the higher authority with someone else, and you count the money or whatever is in there, you don't open it until then just because then you can't be accused of anything because especially for me, I was in a different country and it would've been easy for for someone to be like, oh, hey, you can leave now.

It's okay. And then

for them to say, oh no, it was only three grand in

Reegs: yeah. Yeah.

Cris: like that. So, so I kind of, that's exactly how, how they teach us in, in, and this is just hospitality stuff, but that's how they, they were like, if you find anything of value, you report it straight away, but there's two [00:12:00] of you now and you can't turn on each other.

So, so it's, it is more likely that you are either in it to steal it or in it to actually be. normal and not do that.

Reegs: Yeah. Yeah.

Cris: So anyway, yeah. That they count the money.

Reegs: they're counting the, they get the procedure, the on the go, but it's really shifty Damon, like, doesn't want to call it in to his boss. Yeah. Which is starting to irk Affleck, who's kind of trying to talk to him as his friend, as well as, his boss superior, his commanding officer, or at least that's what's been

Cris: they send what is his surname? They call him by the surname. In, in the movie, the, the actor, the Asian guy. I think Ro Yeah. He, they sent him to be kind of the lookout outside.

Reegs: Yeah. and a bunch and a couple of coppers

Cris: show

up. Yeah. The,

Reegs: with the blue lights on,

Cris: the local police and they're like, oh, why did we not get notified of this?

Reegs: Yeah. And one, and Affleck immediately recognizes one of them as from the VCAT thing that they'd

Cris: He's like, ha, how do I know? He is [00:13:00] like, oh, you've never seen me. And even the guy, he is like, oh, I know you outran me, but fuck you.

Yeah. And it's like, what?

Reegs: It's a real tense like situation, really. And not really deescalated because they reverse off and then they just sit there in the dark watching them for ages and then drive off without any lights on.

Cris: Yeah, it's really strange. Yeah. I

Reegs: think that is the moment where he's like, right, let's get some vests and stuff.

Like, shit's gonna kick off soon. So they get vests and guns. I think they've even got a little tactical vest for the dog.

Cris: I've seen that. Yeah. Yeah, they have a little, yeah. But that's what he say. He says, get one for the dog as well.

Reegs: And it's not a, like, it's not like a German Shepherd or something. It's

Cris: it's a beagle.

Beagle.

Reegs: beagle.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, they do the counting,

Cris: and then they see the flashing light. Ben Affleck has a, almost like a fallout with Dane. Yeah. And then he's like, oh, fuck this. I'm going outside to speak to Ro. And they see the flashing light across the street.

Reegs: Yeah. And they, he works out that it's morse code.

It's [00:14:00] broadcasting pigs. Yeah. BIGS. And inside, don't we find that doesn't, they doesn't. Damon find out that she used to be a police informant.

Cris: Yes. Yeah.

Reegs: Desi, the

Cris: While, while they're doing the check on her, they've got the iPad and he, he's like, oh, you, so you're an

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: So did you just call this, because you know you're gonna get 20% of what,

Reegs: a cut or

Cris: of whatever.

You're gonna get a cut of what we do here.

Reegs: Well, actually, he first tries to say, well, you know, there's gonna be a seizure and you're not entitled to any of it on the property. And she's like, she knows some loophole, or she just shoots back immediately. Oh, well it's my mother's house is in probate, so it's not actually like mine and I'm not implicated for that reason or whatever.

It's like. Everybody's got their weird su

Cris: There's an interest from everyone on on this rip. Yeah.

Reegs: And she asks him about the tattoos that he's got. On his hands. He's got A-W-T-G-G and W-A-A-W-B on his hands. Yeah. Are we the good guys and

Cris: Yes, we definitely[00:15:00]

Reegs: are. And always

Cris: will. Oh yeah, we are. And always will be.

Yeah. Sorry. Yes.

Reegs: And they start getting like phone calls, don't

Cris: Yeah. Yeah. And she just goes, don't answer that. And I think first Ben Affleck's character, he picks it up first. Yeah. And that's where obviously later on we kind of figure out. Who and

Reegs: Yeah. What's been going on. But at this point we don't know

Cris: guy is like, you should better leave now.

Take whatever you want and leave. No, there's no, nobody's worth dying for 150 K.

Reegs: Yeah. Well the first phone call is actually the one that doesn't mention any money, and it, it spooks Affleck enough to call Nick's Carl Chandler's character and tell him, shit, it's getting weird here.

He's not, he's, you know, Damon's not called it in

Cris: he's not showing us the.

Call the informants call or

Reegs: not showing us the informants log, all this stuff. So something weird's going on. So that's the first phone call and then yeah, the second phone call turns out to be intrinsic to the plot.

Yeah. Where somebody phones up and says it's not [00:16:00] worth your life for 150 grand. And

Cris: and obviously they know already.

That's a lot more than that. Yeah. And what did you tell, who did you tell? And to be fair, I did follow the movie and I watched it, but I couldn't remember who he told.

Reegs: Yeah, no, no. You weren't supposed to really have followed

Cris: and yeah, it wasn't like I'm, oh, I'm gonna have to hang to every word. But I was, oh, fucking, I didn't remember.

So

Reegs: but I definitely knew, I knew what was going on though

Cris: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I knew what was going on, but I was just thinking. Oh no, he definitely said to someone 150 K, but I can't remember which one of them.

Reegs: Yeah. So, that call comes in and

Cris: and then we see Damon goes out to follow. Ban,

Reegs: Ro like,

Cris: In, into the h empty house.

Yeah. And then

Reegs: he's led there by Ro and it's really tense because you don't know, they're both sort of half pointing their guns

Cris: Yeah.

Reegs: other. Yeah. They've both got their fingers like hovering over the trigger

Cris: And it's also the first time we see Roe has a spare phone,

Reegs: burner phone.

Yeah. That he's messaging someone and is also [00:17:00] saying. Caps, you know, the captain's not acting right?

Cris: Yeah.

Reegs: So he ends up taking him across and this is where the strong implication is that Matt Damon is killed.

Cris: yeah. Ben Affleck's character. Yeah.

Reegs: Ben Affleck. 'cause Ben Affleck's character will disappear from the movie

Cris: Yeah. For quite a while.

And,

Reegs: And Matt Damon will go back and start saying really loudly to like, really conspicuously. Yeah.

Cris: It was. He was on the phone and he's like, oh yeah, it's 150 K in here. Yeah. And then he goes to the girls,

Reegs: he says to them, oh, we'll let's take our cart. And they start going, yeah, we'll, we'll make sure we get ours.

Like it's a bit ham-fisted this

Cris: too, yeah. Too simple to say. Then Roe goes in and Desi the prisoner girl, the girl with the house, she tells him, look, they're gonna try to take

Reegs: gonna try and steal the money. Damon and the

Cris: know, they're, they're all dirty. What, what are you gonna do about it? You're the only one I can trust, blah, blah, blah. And then shortly after, there's another call, and then someone starts shooting [00:18:00] the, the house.

Reegs: Yeah. Like hundreds of rounds into the house.

Cris: And one of the girls gets hit.

In the leg.

Reegs: Desi get one of the, one of the coppers gets hit, doesn't

Cris: Oh yeah. One of the girls gets shot in the leg. This was one of them that, I dunno protocols. I've never been a police officer, but I thought you, you would've been a lot safer to just stay in the house. Yeah. But Matt Damon and Ro run after these people that

Reegs: that it is like a mad gunfight here really when you think about

Cris: in, in they running through people's back gardens and jumping over fences and this and that, and they shoot a few people and then towards the end of the gunfight they, they, I dunno, the people that were shooting before, they run on in a. dunno. A Jeep or something. Yeah. They, they make a run for it.

And that's when Ben Fl coming

out with character with some other guy,

Reegs: with just some other guy wearing a tactical vest.

Yeah. A Spanish Colombian guy as it'll turn out a member of the cartel. He's like, he doesn't speak any English and Affleck only speaks a little bit of Spanish, but he's managing to get [00:19:00] the message across to him that we are here. We are watching you. It's our money. And they, he puts him in contact with the top boss, doesn't he?

Yeah. And he is basically like, take the money. It's the cost of doing the business. We don't care about it. Yeah. But you should also know we didn't kill your captain. Yeah. And you

Cris: And whoever shot the house just now was not, it wasn't us. Yeah.

Reegs: So they don't want any part of this, the cartel. So suddenly

Cris: there's also a little bit of a thing that they don't actually show. You know? Because the guy says, okay, well you didn't shoot up the house. That's when Matt Damon asks him, you didn't shoot out the house, but did you kill, vicky or whatever her name was, the, the captain. Jackie. Yeah, Jackie.

And then there's a minute of silence. Yeah. And then they just change the camera and they change the angle. And then the cartel guy leaves. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck make their way back into the house. So you don't really know what the answer was.

Reegs: You, you're not given that bit

Cris: we've heard the, the question, but we didn't really hear the answer.

Reegs: Yeah. Yeah,

Cris: And then they go back in the house.[00:20:00]

Reegs: It's great this bit because I mean, yeah.

I mean, everybody suspects, everybody at this point, you've got literally no idea. It could be Affleck's character, it could be Dameon, it could be any

Cris: when they have the fight. When they go get back, they have a fight.

Reegs: fight. He talks about just the tip. It's a little gag about the playing, just the tip. And then it explodes into a big fight, doesn't

Cris: And Roe breaks them up. He does.

Reegs: does. It's crucial detail.

Yeah.

Cris: He, he breaks them up, they kind of get in between each other. He goes outside, he's, oh, fuck you, fuck you. Whatever.

I'm leaving.

Reegs: And then they suddenly, they're like, right, let's get the stuff out of here. And then suddenly the house is on fire.

Yeah. Just like, sort of outta nowhere.

Cris: ro sets it on fire.

Reegs: Well, yeah.

Cris: And and at the same time, Affleck was texting the DA guy and he shows up in the

Reegs: In the tank and that it's like, and and the strong implication here is that like Ben Affleck is sort of sees control of the situation.

He suspects Matt Damon, who's been acting fucking shady throughout the whole movie of being. You [00:21:00] know, a member of a gang that's trying to take this money illegally. And Carl Chandler's rocked up in his tank to save the day. So they load

Cris: And they load the money

Reegs: into the, into the back of the van, all the duffle bags of money, and we're gonna take it to some

Cris: and they leave the girls behind with a dog and with the with the

Reegs: They're just left to be at the scene with the girl. Like,

Cris: they're like, no, I wanna come. And you're like, what can, you can't just leave the women there just like that.

Reegs: So it's just right, it's just Steven Yrn, Carl Chandler, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck. Now with the money in the back of the van, and this is where we start to get the plot unfolding because basically Damon makes it clear that it was all a setup and the drop of the different numbers to the different people was on purpose.

It was a code if it, he knew that whoever would phone in and use that figure. Was affiliated to the person he told that number to. So as soon as he said 150 K, he knew it was Steven Yen's character. He also pla he gets Ben Affleck in on it. When he, when it [00:22:00] looked like he went off to kill him, they actually had a big heart to heart and talk about what was actually going on.

And he told him about the tip that he got message,

Cris: the, the text message. Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: The text message for the tip was from Jackie for this big score, and she knew that it would draw out this. Gang of people. Yeah. And this is when they work out that not only is Ro involved who very quickly snaps, but then also they turn it around quickly on Nicks as well.

Yeah. Carl Chandler's character and

Cris: we use the phone. He's like, oh, how

Reegs: He says, oh, call him. Yeah, call him. Call the last number on there. And he redials. And it obviously rings in Carl Chandler's phones. Fuck. It kicks off an enormous big fight. Basically it splits up like a car chase between Ben Affleck and Carl Chandler's characters.

And as a fist fight, pretty much a foot. Foot chase and a fist fight that has a suplex in it. He does a suplex on him. Yeah. Which I enjoyed. And, you know, both those things resolve in the way that you think they

Cris: Yeah. Ben Affleck shoots the DA guy, I can't, Nicks Nicks, [00:23:00] yeah. He shoots Nicks

Reegs: It's amazing, right? 'cause he's driving and he's just firing his gun like

Cris: A machine gun.

Reegs: A machine gun out the window like that. As he's driving and according to like, when they cut every shot hits the car. 'cause he's like, like, you think, what the fuck,

Cris: what kinda machine gun is that? That has no. Anyway, that, and then. Matt Damon beats up ro and so, so one dies, one survives basically from the bad guys.

Yeah. And he gets arrested and

Reegs: he shows him that he was, they never had the money in the car as well. It's all, all phone books. And the money is actually

With the original crew. Yeah. Who he did trust all along.

Cris: had the money.

Reegs: And they have the money and

Cris: in the, in the old car that was in the garage in the, in the girl's house.

And they drive it to. Miami HQ Police HQ or whatever, and you see the money counting machines just going.

And

then before that, Matt Damon shows them the

Reegs: the, there's been a suspect bit [00:24:00] about this.

'cause he says, I'm going to, when they've counted the money twice, he says, I'm gonna show you what the number is and then, but we're not gonna say it. So it's, and it's felt like at that point, alright, they're gonna,

Cris: you're gonna take some of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Reegs: and at this point, no, they just nailed it exactly to the fucking dollar.

It's I think 20

Cris: 20,000,536 pounds, 36 and 15 something. I dunno, like a really exact, exact number. Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: And a lot of fucking money. And yeah, they flushed out this kind of this crew of Nick's that's powered by these VCAT guys and So I think it ends with them. Then they just go on the beach, like the sun's coming up and

Cris: Well, that's the thing, because the reoccurring team, the, the meaning of the tattoos

Reegs: Mm.

Cris: is at the end, right? Yeah. The, because they keep saying that the detective, the lady, she kept saying that we all lived to see another sunrise.

Reegs: Yeah, yeah,

Cris: very important. And that was, and she was dating or. Sleeping [00:25:00] with Ben Affleck. Ben Affleck.

Reegs: Ben Affleck.

Cris: And Matt Damon lost his son to cancer. Yeah. And that's why he had the

Reegs: I called it, yeah. Very strange last words that, his last words his child said to him was, are we the bad guys? Yeah. And he said. Are we the good guy story? And he says We are and always will be. And those were the last words he said to his child. Yeah, I don't know. I wasn't sure about that detail, but also, and Desi as gets 20% as well.

$8 million. That's nice, isn't it?

Cris: Well, they said, what is it, 20%? And they said that it's, she's gonna get half of the 20% because the rest of it is tax.

Reegs: Still, that's nice, isn't

Cris: And she gives Scott Atkins a hug.

Reegs: And it, oh yeah. And that was also part of it. I mean, they get, we didn't quite say that, that actually the only man that Ben Affleck really trusted with this

Cris: his brother. Was his brother.

Reegs: was his brother.

And he brings in his brother right towards the end, Scott Atkins, to be the bit of a hero and get his car shot up. Yeah. And yeah, and then it

Cris: that was it there at the beach sunrise and there's a kid[00:26:00]

on

the beach playing with a

Reegs: and the dog is called Jackie. And I, I found that unintentionally very hilarious that the dog had the same name as the police captain.

Cris: Well, yeah, they, it's meant to be like a full circle moment

Reegs: but it's just so bad. I was like, really? Did I need that? Yeah. Anyway I really enjoyed

Cris: Yeah, it was good.

Reegs: A very entertaining

Cris: How long was it? Was it one? One?

40. One 50, Yeah. It's good though.

Reegs: two hours.

Cris: though.

It keeps you, keeps you in.

Reegs: Yeah. It clips along at a good pace. Good cast. Well directed. Well acted. It's a bit, I find the only thing about it is. It's a bit hollow in 2026 to be making misty-eyed propaganda about like, you know, swaggering macho types and, and you know, asking us to have reverence for them and all this sort of stuff when the cops are, you know, nearly universally such assholes in America, aren't they?

But,

Cris: well, yes and no. I mean, look, at the same time, this is the kind of argument it does say at the beginning that it's inspired by three [00:27:00] events.

Reegs: Yeah. In that they did find Joe Carnahan, the guy who he, you know, wrote the story with. Was a police sheriff, I think who found $20 million in Florida. Right. In a, in a, an old man's house.

None of the other stuff. I think the rest is like, what would happen if, if, you know,

Cris: No, but, but even to that, I kind of, I kind of get the, I I, I was gonna say probably similar thing is more that. I've seen, obviously we've all seen this before, where the, the, there's someone in the police, right?

There's no, it is not the cartel. It's not who you expect, but then they kind of tell you from the beginning, yeah, that this is basically an inside job. So it's almost like a, well, who do

Reegs: Exactly. So you are looking

Cris: who do you think has done it rather than. Thinking all along that it's left and it's actually Right.

Right.

Reegs: Yeah. It's like knives out, but with tattoos and

Cris: guns. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And police officers

Reegs: police officers. Yeah. Yeah. They tell you there's a mystery and, and [00:28:00] a good part of it is watching how it plays out and the way it makes you think, oh, he's the bad guy. No, he's the bad guy. And, and that's, you know,

Cris: and who's he texting and, and is he, you know, called a major?

Have you spoken, you know, all that stuff. So,

Reegs: and then it plays on the, you know, long friendship of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who were both really good in this and, and Matt Damon playing a character where you have to ask yourself, is he a bit of an asshole, is a, quite an unusual role for him.

Cris: Although he, this is another role that for Ben Affleck is quite. Easy for him, I guess, because he, he's never want to smile. He's not a comedic actor, so he's just angry. And

Reegs: he smokes well in this. He looks cool.

Cris: well, he does smoke in real life, I think. Especially after the divorces that he had and all that. So, I dunno. He's great. Great. He's in great nick though.

Reegs: Yeah. Yeah. It's a horny film. The pair of him look great.

Cris: Yeah. So.

Reegs: it's definitely a strong recommend for me. I, I really enjoyed this. Yeah.

Cris: Is this original Netflix? Just [00:29:00] Netflix? No, nothing else. Okay. I didn't really pay attention to that. I, I, I just thought,

Reegs: yeah, it's just a Netflix joint.

Joe Carnahan, who did a cop shop that we reviewed on this, that I liked and he also did a bunch of other movies, including The Gray. That was really good. I, there was an interesting thing in the run up to this, which was Damon and all and Ben Affleck being saying that a lot of Netflix movies are given notes to say that you have to reiterate the plot.

Cris: I've seen that. Yeah. Like

Reegs: few minutes 'cause so many people are second screening

Cris: phone.

Yeah.

Reegs: And this movie actually requires you to pay attention to who people are and what things are being discussed. So it's really not like that. So the

Cris: and you know what? I was actually comparing it to something. I'm gonna finish really quickly. I've, that I watched on Apple TV Wolves. Okay. With Brad Pitt and George Looney.

And it's kind of that, it's very similar. They're both police officer, they're both really good mates. They're both, one is more higher than the other one is. And it's just, that was so poor.

Reegs: Mm-hmm. [00:30:00] I heard that was bad.

Yeah.

And,

Cris: and this was so good.

Reegs: Yeah, this is great. I, I really

Cris: and it's, it was pretty much kind of the premises.

Obviously that's more with Asian people, this is more with the cartel and it's obviously slightly different. They can't make the same film. But this was really good for, especially when, in my head, I compared it a bit with that. So strong

Reegs: Strong recommend.