Directed by Doug Liman, it stars Casey Affleck, who co-wrote the script, and Matt Damon as likably maladroit Boston crooks who get caught in a robbery gone bad.
He had made his name on the professional golfing scene at 19, still a gawky lad continually hitching up his trousers, throwing away a lead with sublime impatience at Royal Birkdale in 1976.
And this is the dynamic that you're going to see throughout the history of the detective novel, um, where you have the regular cops who are well-meaning, but officious and bumblingly inept.