If you’ve not seen Insider’s YouTube series where the outlet has experts in different fields sit down to react to relevant movie scenes, you’re missing out. And Cain Vincent Dyer, a former bank robber, is the latest to share insights. This time, on a Ben Affleck film.
Dyer reviewed a Ben Affleck scene from one of the actor’s best movies and thought the depiction of a bank heist was dead on. We’re talking, of course, about the gripping The Town: a 2010 crime film starring Affleck, Rebecca Hall, and Jeremy Renner.
One of the best thriller movies of that year, it was an early directorial effort for Affleck and a significant stepping stone in ensuring he had a steady stream of new movies in his career.
Dyer, brought in to break down the realism of movies like Spider-Man: Homecoming, Point Break, and more, was shown the truck robbery scene from The Town, and thought it was done right, “It is absolutely on point.”
“Truck robberies are quite common, I think there was just one in Los Angeles a week ago,” he said. And during the part of the sequence where the characters listen in on a police scanner, Dyer added: “I actually used police scanners in a lot of my bank heists. I would tap into the police activity within an area. Knowing when they’re coming, knowing how much time you have left inside… so, yes, it’s absolutely something that a gang of that caliber would have.”
The movie then has the robbers set fire to the vehicle they escaped in, taking off in a different SUV after, “they switch cars after the robbery, which is very, very, very common. All the cars that they’re using are stolen, more than likely, right? Instead of stealing a car what I would do is find that make and model of the car that I had and I would steal the license plate off an identical car. There are a lot of guys in crews that are out there that are like that.
High praise for one of the best Ben Affleck movies, and from a man using his unique talents for good! Now go read how Ben Affleck replaced Jon Hamm in one of his best movies.