Good Will Hunting’s superstar duo Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reunited in Netflix’s recent original movie, The Rip. The motion thriller stars Damon as Lt. Dane Dumars and Affleck as Sgt. JD Byrne.
Dumars and Byrne are members of the Miami-Dade Police Department who take care of drug-related crimes. Dumars is the second-in-command under Captain Jackie Velez, who dies under mysterious circumstances firstly of the film. The suspicion of her death soon falls on Byrne, who was supposedly dating her on the time.
While working on a drug bust in Hialeah, Dumars and his team discover almost $20 million in drug money inside a house’s attic. Tempted by greed, the officers are soon tested on what number of lines they’ll cross for their very own personal gain.
The Rip’s Rotten Tomatoes Rating
The Rip has established itself as one in all the top-rated Netflix original live-action movies on the platform, with a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 83%. The audience rating of 71% isn’t far behind the Tomatometer rating. The critical consensus of the film reads: “Leveraging Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s classic chemistry to texturize a friendship tested by greed, The Rip tears into its potboiler setup with compulsively watchable confidence.”
Forbes’ Paul Tassi recently noted in a report that The Rip almost set a brand new record because the highest-rated Netflix original film on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s now the second-highest-rated Netflix original film on RT, just behind Rebel Ridge’s 95%. The Old Guard is Netflix’s third-highest-rated original film with an 80% Tomatometer rating.
The Rip looks set to cement its place as one in all Netflix’s first major hits in 2026, ensuring that the streaming service is off to a powerful start this 12 months.
The Rip Plot & Solid
The Rip’s plotline seems tailor-made for a tense motion thriller, a high-stakes tale of police corruption. After the death of the Miami-Dade Police Department captain, Jackie Valez, her second-in-command, Lt Dane Dumars (Matt Damon), takes charge of an anti-drug task force consisting of Sgt JD Byrne (Ben Affleck), Detective Mike Ro (Steve Yeun), Detective Numa Baptiste (Teyana Taylor), and Detective Lolo Salazar (Catalina Sandino Moreno).
Dumars and Byrne struggle with temptation after they discover $20 million in drug money while raiding the residence of Desi Molina (Sasha Calle), the granddaughter of the previous homeowner.
After Dumars decides to subvert standard protocol by refusing to tell the higher-ups about their discovery, the situation escalates when Mike Ro begins plotting against him. Meanwhile, DEA Agent Matty Nix (Kyle Chandler) attempts to sow further discord inside Dumars’s team by insinuating that he could have been chargeable for Captain Velez’s demise.
With $20 million on the road and their very survival depending on their ability to trust one another, how will Dane Dumars and his team survive the sticky situation before them?
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