"The Town"

[SwissArmyDad]

Finally got around to watching this movie this weekend. I thought it had a very good story and there were some very cool firearm choices by the movie's armorer.

I also appreciated the realistic hits on vests, running out of ammo, and the fact that both side's shooters had way more misses than hits. To me the mark of a good, realistic action movie is one that has 200-300 wall/set mounted squibs to every body-mounted squib.

Some great shotgun work by the cops,too.

I honestly had to look up a lot of the sub-machine guns on IMDB.com to identify them.

One of my favorite rigs is the SIG 551 and I was stoked when i saw that one of the robbers carries one in the first scene. Pretty cool HK carbine in that scene, too.

 

[Der Stro]

I think it rivals Heat in terms of weapon realism. One thing I was particularly appreciative of in Heat was that after an exchange of automatic weapons fire inside a building, no one could hear a dang thing

 

[MrWesson]

Awesome movie with great action. It was written and directed by Ben Affleck.. All this time I thought he was a slacker in the writing of
good will hunting but turns out the guy has a real talent.


DSA SA58 OSW Carbine

 

[Inebriated]

Great gun scenes. I've wondered when this movie would pop up on gun forums. lol

 

[Inebriated]

This is also relevant...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNnGU0dpGiM

 

[Justin]

I still haven't seen this movie, though I hear really good things.

That said, movie and TV threads aren't really on topic for THR.