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THE RIP MOVIE REVIEW
When it comes to Hollywood power couples, there aren’t many that have stood the test of time or the pressures of the star machine better and longer than Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and they’ve reunited once again in a tightly wound crime thriller directed by Joe Carnahan. The Rip unfolds over a single volatile night where a routine police job turns into a siege defined by mistrust and moral gray areas. Trapped in an isolated location as outside threats close in, a small group of cops must navigate shifting alliances, buried secrets, and the growing realization that the danger may be coming from inside the walls. Evoking the claustrophobic tension of Assault on Precinct 13 and the code-driven intensity of Heat, the film thrives on pressure, paranoia, and characters pushed to their limits. Melina, Chris, and T.C. gather in the One Of Us evidence locker to break down the craft of Joe Carnahan, the performances of this top notch cast, who would win in a fight between Jason Bourne or Christian Wolff, and the lingering feelings this tense thriller leaves behind.
DIRECTED BY: Joe Carnahan
STARRING: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor, Sasha Calle, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Scott Adkins, Kyle Chandler, Néstor Carbonell, Lina Esco, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Cliff Chamberlain, Alex Hernandez, Daisuke Tsuji
YOUR REVIEWERS
T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)
T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.
Melina Eames (Screener Squad)
Melina first discovered that she carried the nerd gene at the tender age of four following her exposure to a little film called A New Hope. In the twenty-some years that followed, Melina continued to grow into her geek identity through the discovery of Batman, Mst3k, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, and The Mandalorian. But perhaps her most significant discovery came at the age of fourteen when a night of YouTube mining led her to the review site of Spill.com. Melina became a devoted follower whose fandom did not end with the site’s demise. By then, it had worked its dark magic and left her with a love and appreciation for film criticism that she has yet to shrug.
Christopher Ayres (Screener Squad)
Born and raised in the suburbs of Hinsdale, Illinois, Chris Ayres would constantly watch movies as a child, and that obsession has only grown over time, even attending Columbia Film School in Chicago during his last couple years of college. Whenever he’s not working his exhausting day job, he’s either watching as many movies as he can squeeze into his free time (preferably movies he’s never seen before due to a never-ending desire to expand his knowledge of the art form), or trying to turn people on to movies they haven’t seen that he thinks are worth their attention. You can find him on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram and Letterboxd (look for AyresForce or AyresForceOne)
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