Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Make a Cash Grab in Trailer for Their True Crime Thriller “The Rip”
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are back at it again, this time in a distinctly different kind of film from their last collaboration, Affleck’s delightful look at Nike’s formation of what would become an iconic partnership with Michael Jordan in Air. In their new film, The Rip, Affleck and Damon play two Miami police officers who are leading a squad that works “the dope game,” which means they deal with drugs and guns, but their job primarily revolves around seizing money. When they get a tip that a stash house is holding $300,000 in drug money, they go investigate. What they find instead is $20 million —the kind of money that can change lives—or destroy them.
The film comes from writer/director Joe Carnahan, a seasoned helmer of crime capers, and the cast surrounding Affleck and Damon is appropriately stacked—Kyle Chandler, Teyana Taylor, Steven Yeun, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Sasha Calle, and Scott Adkins are among the supporting players. The Rip is based on true events, and the trailer, true to the film’s title, indeed rips. Damon appears to be playing a possible antihero, or at least a character whose defining characteristic isn’t nobility or genius, but greed. Once the officers find the cash and take it, a deadly game of cat and mouse begins, and whatever trust they had among themselves starts to dissolve.
Check out the trailer for The Rip, which arrives on Netflix on January 16.
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Featured image: THE RIP. (L to R) Ben Affleck as Detective Sergeant J.D. Byrne and Matt Damon as Lieutenant Dane Dumars in The Rip. Cr. Claire Folger/Netflix © 2025.
