Rip Up the Script: Review of ‘The Rip’

Netflix had me just where it wanted me this weekend: home. I was one among likely millions of Americans whose attention was divided between contending with Winter Storm Fern and watching streaming content. Both, in their fashion, constituted “work”: my driveway required regular shoveling if I had any hope of keeping ahead of the snow accumulation, but my mind needed to be focused, some of the time, on the new action movie I was scheduled to review in this space: The Rip, starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck as morally questionable and/or compromised Miami police officers. Like a man possessed, I would dart between my cozy home office, where I would watch The Rip in increments, and my increasingly snow-covered driveway. Back and forth I