Review of The Rip (2026)
It would be easy to dismiss The Rip as a January straight-to-streaming action thriller if it did not come with this kind of star power. A Joe Carnahan cops-and-crime potboiler backed by Artists Equity and led by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck feels like something designed to make noise, not something quietly dropped on Netflix.
And the movie mostly delivers what that pitch implies, sometimes better than you would expect. Damon plays Lieutenant Dane Dumars, who leads a Miami-Dade Tactical Narcotics team into a Hialeah stash house and finds a cartel cache that turns the night into a pressure cooker. The catch is not the money itself, it is what the money does to the room. Dumars does not call it in right away, he controls the information, and the team starts looking at each other like strangers. Carnahan understands how to make a confined situation feel volatile, and the first stretch plays with real procedural momentum.
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