‘Animals’ movie review: Ben Affleck’s thriller squanders its premise and cast
The film 'Animals', starring Ben Affleck, is criticized for being a disjointed and uninspired crime thriller that fails to deliver on its premise. The review highlights poor narrative coherence and wasted potential.
Why it matters
It serves as a critical assessment of high-profile streaming content and the creative risks of using AI in post-production.
In Animals , the biggest crime that Ben Affleck makes is not that he did not acknowledge a debt of inspiration to Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low (1963), or that he used AI in post production, but that he made such a flaccid crime thriller. We definitely expect more from the man who gave us Argo and The Town .
Mark Kimball (Ben Affleck) is rich, successful and has a beautiful home and family. He is running as an independent candidate in the Los Angeles mayoral elections. On the advice of his campaign manager, Sam (Steven Yeun), Mark puts all the family’s savings into the campaign.
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