At times I find it cloying. And yet Ben Aflleck is a career that makes him a reference actor for films that rarely can aspire to the Oscar but that achieve good box offices. One of the clearest exponents of the most commercial cinema. Someone to turn to for medium budgets that, in the case of Hollywood, are comparable to very large productions from any other country.
Action, drama, suspense, comedy or romance. It cannot be said that Ben Affleck is a labeled actor. And then there is his creative vein as a director and as a screenwriter. A factotum who also wanted to take advantage of his "good looks" to get in front of the cameras. In my humble opinion, without having the entire repertoire of the great actors, but with the necessary solvency to defend any role..., winks through a leading man for his fervent followers, if necessary.
Top 3 recommended Ben Affleck movies
Deep Water
AVAILABLE HERE:The emotional torture and its wounds are always internal until the final explosion. The long-suffering boyfriend and lover of a colossal Ana de Armas. But she likes limits, especially exceeding them. The consequences can be buried or hidden under the stormy waters after storms...
Eroticism and suspense, erotic thriller as specialists already call films of this nature. A film where Ana de Armas is fully convincing as a femme fatale, loaded with all her weapons of conquest until the defeat of her lover by complete madness. Ana de Armas (Melinda) is the mantis that devours her partner, Ben Afflet (Vic) after each passionate delivery in bed or wherever he touches.
For her there is no passion without exceeding limits. Melinda knows that Vic is completely devoted despite his whims, his outbursts, and his pursuit of sex in every other arms. But there is no unbridled passion without excesses that can lead to crime, to a thirst for revenge of the rejected.
The waters can always collect the darkest secrets. And as long as there is no definitive evidence, Vic can continue to focus her passionate hatred on increasingly treacherous crimes. Because once he became the murderer of passion, one more victim doesn't matter anymore.
Fully understandable tension in abundance for a convincing female lead on that road to madness. the very Patricia Highsmith I would be proud of this adaptation where Melinda offers a maddening sweetness, sensual but depraved.
Argon
AVAILABLE HERE:Jumping from one side of the camera to the other, as director and main actor, in this film his friend Benny recreates a real event that, despite necessary script adjustments, manages to convey the unique tension with a hint of espionage, political strategy and diplomatic trap...
Iran, 1979. When the United States embassy in Tehran is occupied by followers of Ayatollah Khomeini to request the extradition of the Shah of Persia, the CIA and the Canadian government organized an operation to rescue six American diplomats who had taken refuge in the house of the Canadian ambassador. To this end, an expert in rescuing hostages was used and the stage was set for the filming of a science fiction film, titled "Argo", in which a team of Hollywood talent scouts participated. The mission: go to Tehran and pass the diplomats through a Canadian film crew to bring them back home.
The accountant
AVAILABLE HERE:In this movie Ben Affleck nails the autistic thing, Rainman style. Taking advantage of his hieratic capacity, which in other films makes him fall short in expressiveness, we get fully into the skin of Christian Wolff.
Because beyond his minor degree of autism, Christian knows how to move to achieve his most economical goals. His world is numbers that, converted into dollars, are even more attractive to him if possible.
The perfect accountant so that not a single cent escapes from accounting A and so that all the possible millions escape from accounting B. The point is that getting involved in certain organizations where everything that moves is black, has its great risks that Christian will also have to face with his analytical mind in its most practical version to survive.