Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Reunite As Narcs on the Edge in ‘The Rip’

“Does it hold up?” Matt Damon asks earnestly, before catching himself with a laugh: “Am I allowed to ask that?”

Damon’s anxiety is understandable—he and his old buddy Ben Affleck have teamed up again for The Rip, a new cop thriller from Joe Carnahan (Smokin Aces, The Grey), and aside from the people who worked on it, nobody’s seen it yet; later, when I talk to Carnahan, he’s similarly eager to hear reactions. Director and star can rest assured: The Rip is a tense and taut…