{"id":248235,"date":"2026-01-16T18:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/248235\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T18:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:38:10","slug":"the-rip-on-netflix-matt-damon-and-ben-afflecks-bad-cop-worse-cop-act-feels-like-youre-watching-a-male-fantasy-at-its-most-incompetent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/248235\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rip on Netflix: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck\u2019s bad cop\/worse cop act feels like you\u2019re watching a male fantasy at its most incompetent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nNew film invites stressed-out men to bask in gun battles, car chases and beards but it doesn\u2019t make a whole lot of sense\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in The Rip. Photo: Claire Folger\/Netflix\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/82e7c3b4-755a-4156-b913-4960840baad8.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in The Rip. Photo: Claire Folger\/Netflix<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Rip is so bad that it is tempting to say that no one will watch it. But I bet a lot of men will watch it. A lot of stressed men who\u2019ve had enough of their spouses and their kids and their bosses and their work and the traffic \u2013 you know how it is \u2013 and just want something relaxing to look at.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Because experience teaches us that straight men find strange things relaxing. Things like machine guns, car chases, fist fights between friends and even between brothers, and also a lot of shouting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New film invites stressed-out men to bask in gun battles, car chases and beards but it doesn\u2019t make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36044,93,61,60,98032,1868,279],"class_list":["post-248235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ann-marie-hourihane","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-matt-damon","tag-netflix","tag-review-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}