22 years after The Bourne Identity, Matt Damon and director Doug Liman reunite for this crafty Boston-set comic crime caper, one that’s as well-cast as it is written. Damon plays Rory, a man at his wits’ end, as he tells therapist Dr. Rivera (Hong Chau) at the outset. Rory needs exactly $32,480 for reasons that will become clear and he plans to get it by joining a heist run by Michael Stuhlbarg and Alfred Molina’s small-time crooks.
Taking place during local elections, the robbery leaves bodies everywhere when a stand-off goes wrong. Worse is to come, as Rory and his associate Cobby (Casey Affleck) steal a bracelet belonging to the mayor (Ron Perlman), who desperately wants it back. Soon, everyone from Paul Walter Hauser’s thug to Ving Rhames’ special-ops unit cop are coming after them.
