150 Word Review: 'The Rip' (2026)
Let 'er
Netflix movies are structurally lopsided because the streamer only seems to care about hooking viewers. The crime drama The Rip is a perfect example: it opens with a bang, then fizzles out.
The first few minutes of The Rip are a flurry of intense internal affairs interviews with an elite “tactical narcotics team,” cut with flashbacks to a gunfight involving the movie’s most important character, a cop we barely meet, whose complicated relationships with the leads are confusing.
The Rip reunites Oscar-winning besties Matt Damon and Ben Affleck as cops who find $20 million during a drug bust. Based on a true story, this should be a fun, gritty crooked cop opera, but it’s boring.
It’s depressing that Netflix can afford top-notch actors—Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor, Kyle Chandler—all spectacularly underused. Written and directed by Joe Carnahan, The Rip is visually murky and narratively confusing. But there’s plenty of lifeless exposition.
Hard agree