"We were in Medford, Massachusetts and telling people, 'We don’t have coffee,' " Affleck said

The Rip follows two Miami police officers assigned to a Tactical Narcotics Team. Matt Damon portrays Lieutenant Dane Dumars, and Ben Affleck plays Detective Sergeant JD Byrne. After receiving a credible lead, the unit searches a suspected safe house, expecting routine results.

Both the good guys and the bad guys work for the Miami-Dade Police Department in "The Rip," which reunites "Good Will Hunting" buds Ben Affleck and Matt Damon for a dark, trust-no-one heist movie that's conspicuously better than most Netflix originals and,

River Phoenix was born the same year as Matt Damon, and he died at 23 in 1993, just as Damon and Affleck's stars were beginning to rise

Matt Damon told Joe Rogan that Netflix executives ask screenwriters to create excitement in "the first five minutes" of a movie and to have characters reiterate the plot "three or four times" for people looking at their phones.