Movie Details
| Title: | The Rip | |
| Director: | Joe Carnahan | |
| Year: | 2026 | |
| Genre: | Cop | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 01.17.26 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (4)
- The A-Team
- The Grey
- Smokin' Aces
- Stretch
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 01.17.26 | Internet | The marketing worked on me for this movie. Damon and Affleck in a Joe Carnahan movie seemed worth watching. I didn't like Air much but keep meaning to watch The Last Duel and generally like Affleck and Damon. Carnahan can make a good movie. Why not? This was decent. SPOILERS The premise of the movie is that a group of cops find 20 million dollars of cartel cash in a house and for some reason have to count it on-site before they take it in. Shit gets real when sketchy ass patrol cops show up and the cartel finds out they're there. But really the movie is about the temptation to steal the money and the cops turning on each other as they start to lose trust in one another. Ok, so these types of movies wind up with a reveal of who the dirty cop or cops are and whether they win or not. This movie definitely has that but it also has a trick on the audience in order to set it up (which is certainly a spoiler so I hope you stopped reading if you haven't seen it and want to). I am not typically a huge fan of this since it often involves the characters acting a certain way just for the audience and it makes no sense in their lives, but this script is solid enough that I think it covered its bases and even though we have to see flashbacks during the reveal to follow the six paragraphs of monologue Damon has to deliver, I think everything generally fit together, at least right now after viewing it does. I'm still a little hazy why the bad guys had to kill the cop lady to begin with and whether the whole thing was just a ploy for the girl in the house to get paid or I guess get out from the cartel's reach? But like, if the bad guys went after rips to begin with then... why kill her? Maybe they explain it in the very beginning of the movie and I didn't catch it. But Affleck calls Coach before Damon talked to him right? So it was just coincidence that the only other notable character in the movie was a bad guy? That falls into the casting trap there... And I guess Steven Yuen texted Coach about 150k but didn't text him an updated number after he found out there was more even though he was texting him constantly? And what would've happened if they didn't call and mention 150k ? Why did they even call? Were they trying to scare everyone away to take the money? And why did the cops show up if they already got texted? Well... it's either late and I'm not thinking straight or you're watching the plot unravel in my mind as I write. Now I feel like it wasn't as good because I can't figure out what the hell the bad guys' plan was. And the text that Steven Yuen seems like he only mentioned thinking they were dirty to mislead the audience. He's certainly been on that squad a while right? We're meant to think he's snitching for internal affairs or something but if he was really texting Kyle Chandler then... who cares if they're dirty? Like, "hurry up i think they're dirty and trying to take the money before you get here?" Except the cops were already there? Oh, maybe they weren't. maybe that's why the black and white shows up. No I think it was reversed because everyone already had their vests on. So why did he even send texts if the cop car had already rolled by? What the fuck... shit. Well, I guess I didn't like it as much as I did at the beginning of this note. Truly an example of Hitchcock's refrigerator test... liked it well enough while watching but it fell apart afterward. I guess just part of it doesn't make sense. I did still have a nice enough time watching it unfold but writing this note will probably be more memorable than the film itself. Time for bed. |
