The Rip

A Miami-Dade narcotics unit raids a stash house in Hialeah and finds roughly twenty million dollars in cartel cash sitting in a room. Lieutenant Dane Dumars, played by Matt Damon, runs a sting to find out which of his own men will take it, and the unit's trust comes apart under the weight of the money. The story is loosely drawn from a real 2016 Miami-Dade raid.

Joe Carnahan directed for Artists Equity, with Ben Affleck, Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor, Sasha Calle, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Scott Adkins and Kyle Chandler. Netflix released it on 16 January 2026.

The film is set in Florida. It shot in Los Angeles, between October and December 2024.

That gap is the whole problem. A Florida-set thriller needs Florida light, Florida weather and Florida storm atmosphere, on a schedule that could not chase any of them across the country. The story also turns on long interior sequences where the world outside the windows has to carry the tension, and where the light falling on the cast has to agree with what the audience can see behind them.

Synapse delivered comprehensive virtual production support from pre-light through the final shoot days, running LED volume, virtual production supervision, Pixera playback, camera tracking and systems engineering.

The volume put the environment on the wall, so the storm atmosphere was a lighting source rather than a post fix. Interactive light landed on faces and surfaces in-camera, with the time of day and weather under the filmmakers' control rather than the sky's.

The film released on Netflix on 16 January 2026 and was reviewed by Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter on release.