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★★★☆☆
3 out of 5 stars
Matt Damon. Ben Affleck. Together again.
How do you like them apples?
RIP starts strong. Really strong. Tense, well written, crackling with that hard boiled, blue collar dialogue straight out of the 80s cop thrillers we grew up on. You can practically smell the stale coffee, staler cigarettes and bad decisions. Damon and Affleck slide back into that familiar pitter patter like they never left. The first 10 minutes are chock full of muttered threats, half smiles, and unresolved baggage. Sing it with me, “Reunited and it feels so good”.
For a glorious stretch, this thing looks like it might become a classic.
Start Strong, Stakes High
Once everyone’s in the stash house and the tension starts ratcheting up, motives questioned, alliances wobbling, twists landing just often enough, the movie teases something special. A two hour, single location pressure cooker. Us vs them. A siege. An Assault on Precinct 13 style shootout. The original, not that hideous remake.
This is the movie RIP wants to be. And honestly, it’s the movie we wanted too.
NEVER. LEAVE. THE. HOUSE.
And then…they leave the house.
Never leave the house.
NEVER LEAVE THE HOUSE.
The second the story steps outside, the tension drains away like a punctured tyre. What could have been a tight, nerve shredding chamber piece mutates into a by the numbers action flick. Explosions replace suspense. Clichés turn up on time and hit their marks. You can practically hear the studio notes rattling around.
Worse still, The Update’s partner clocked the entire plot twist way before it happened, declared it “basic,” and then chastised المستجدات for not picking it up sooner before calling us a basic bitch.
Not very nice. But…not wrong either.
Performances & Firepower
To be clear, Damon and Affleck are not the problem. They are solid, charismatic, and clearly enjoying being back in each other’s orbit. When the script lets them spar verbally, the movie hums. When it asks them to sprint through generic action beats, it shrugs. There’s a better film buried in here. One that trusted dialogue over gunfire and restraint over excess.
الحكم النهائي
As a former England manager once famously said, first half good, second half not so good. RIP flirts with greatness, bottles it, then settles for serviceable. A missed opportunity wrapped in solid performances and a killer premise that just could not resist leaving the damn house. We will still watch Damon and Affleck together every time. We will just quietly wish this one had shown a little more discipline.
