Lines between cop and criminal get murky in Joe Carnahan’s "The Rip,” a crime thriller set across one foggy Miami night, starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

Damon and Affleck, of course, are so closely associated with Boston - most recently they produced the 2024 heist movie "The Instigators” there - that a detour to South Florida puts them, a little awkwardly, in an entirely different movie landscape. This is "Miami Vice” territory or Elmore Leonard Land, not Southie or "The Town.”

In "The Rip,” they play Miami narcotics officers who come upon a cartel stash house that Lt. Dane Dumars (Damon) says may have $150,000 hidden in the walls.

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