If there’s been one truly good development that’s taken place this decade, it’s that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon started making movies together again, and, unsurprisingly, they’ve all been pretty dope. Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel was phenomenal (thinking about Affleck’s “take off your fucking pants” line never fails to bring a smile to our faces), Affleck’s Air was delightful, and now the pair have teamed up with Joe Carnahan to bring us The Rip.
The plot, about a team of Miami cops who hit a trap house and discover it’s full of dough, is firmly within Carnahan’s wheelhouse — this is, after all, the man who began his Hollywood career with Narc, had Liam Neeson fight wolves and stave off suicidal depression in The Grey, and probably needs a big win after Boss Level — and Damon and Affleck are ideal leads for a feature like this one. It is weird to think of Affleck as a Marlins fan, though. Wonder if he and Carnahan came to an agreement that he wouldn’t have to wear any gear to stave off some Fincher-like disputes.
Anyhow, Netflix dropped a new trailer for the project earlier on Monday, though, for whatever reason, they didn’t spend thousands of dollars on NFL seats to get an entire stadium section of Affleck and Damon lookalikes for the Christmas Day photo-op. We guess it was too hard to tell them apart from the regular fans in the other sections.
Take a look:
Here’s a short — and we mean fuckin’ short — synopsis for The Rip:
“Trust frays when a team of Miami cops discovers millions in cash inside a run-down stash house, calling everyone — and everything — into question.”
The Rip hits Netflix on January 16. The sequel needs to be about them rescuing a kidnapped Derek Jeter — talk about some serious conflict there.