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Upon discovering millions in cash in a derelict stash house, trust among a team of Miami cops begins to fray. As outside forces learn about the size of the seizure, everything is called into question -- including who they can rely on.
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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.

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Randy Myers San Jose Mercury News Jan 28
3/4
The Rip seems highly possible until its overblown climatic end, but even when it succumbs to the action thriller norms, it and the cast always keeps you thoroughly entertained. Go to Full Review
Matt Goldberg TheWrap Jan 28
3/5
Joe Carnahan's crime thriller feels like a nice throwback to '90s genre pictures, but it pulls a few too many punches. Go to Full Review
Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Jan 27
2.5/4
I was entertained, even if for the longest stretches I couldn’t have told you who was doing what to whom. Chalk it up as yet another twist in the tale of Matt ‘n’ Ben – two Yin/Yang talents who will be yoked together for eternity. Go to Full Review
Stephen Silver Splice Today 1d
A Netflix urban cop corruption thriller set in Miami that owes a lot more to the Den of Thieves movies than to either incarnation of Michael Mann’s Miami Vice. Go to Full Review
Gautam Anand The Cinemaholic 3d
1/4
The Rip is a frustrating missed opportunity. It takes a golden premise and two of cinema’s best friends and buries them under a mountain of plot holes. Go to Full Review
Robert W. Butler Butler's Cinema Scene 4d
C+
Little by little “The Rip” devolves into a b-the-numbers action flick. The cast is strong, but they’re at the mercy of the material. Go to Full Review
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Andrew G. @agoldsmith87 1h Solid action pick with great twist. Ending very unrealistic though. See more max m @Saucymourine 6h Good movie when compared with what’s out there today. Kept you guessing throughout. See more Deshawn F. @Poof94 7h Good move story action all enjoyable solid movie but of course it would be with these two See more T M. @Ang24 7h Action, tension, talent but the movie was less than expected See more Eduardo B @ewhite10 1d good movie, kept you interested from beginning to end. Ben and Matt chemistry has never left the screen since good will hunting and seem to be in the zone when they share the screen. Supporting cast was good as well. See more Naz B @BazAct 1d Can I just say this? The Rip isn’t about crime. It’s about what happens when good people panic. I watched it on Netflix and haven’t stopped thinking about it. Not because of the action or tension, but because of what it quietly reveals about fear. At first, it feels like a crime thriller. But as it unfolds, you realise the crime is secondary. It’s really about how fear distorts judgment. These aren’t obvious villains. They’re people convincing themselves they’re being rational. Panic doesn’t arrive dramatically. It whispers, "We’ll fix this later." It says, "Just this once." Lines blur. Trust shifts. Silence gets loud. As a parent, I kept thinking about teens. Strip away the crime and what’s left is loyalty under pressure. The fear of exclusion. The pull between doing what’s right and protecting yourself socially. What do you do when you’re scared? Who do you protect first? When fear walks in the room, who do you become? See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Upon discovering millions in cash in a derelict stash house, trust among a team of Miami cops begins to fray. As outside forces learn about the size of the seizure, everything is called into question -- including who they can rely on.
Director
Joe Carnahan
Producer
Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Luciana Damon, Dani Bernfeld, Michael Joe, Kevin Halloran
Screenwriter
Joe Carnahan, Michael McGrale, Joe Carnahan
Distributor
Netflix
Production Co
Artists Equity
Rating
R (Pervasive Language|Violence)
Genre
Crime, Drama, Action
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 16, 2026
Runtime
1h 52m
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