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The Instigators

Crime Comedy Action English


Rory and Cobby are unlikely partners thrown together for a heist. But when it goes awry, they team up to outrun police, backward bureaucrats, and a vengeful crime boss.

Cast:Matt Damon, Casey Affleck, Ving Rhames, Jack Harlow, Michael Stuhlbarg, Alfred Molina, Owen Earls, Hong Chau, Natalie Carter, Walter Liebman, André De Shields
Director:Doug Liman
Writer:Chuck MacLean, Casey Affleck
Editor:William Goldenberg, Tatiana S. Riegel, Saar Klein, Brett M. Reed
Camera:Henry Braham

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Therapy Heist Comedy Is a Blast

Fox in morning light

Akhil Arora | akhilarora.com

Fri, August 9 2024

Matt Damon and Casey Affleck deliver the goods in this silly, well-oiled Apple TV+ movie.

More than midway through The Instigators—the Apple TV+ original movie with Matt Damon and Casey Affleck in the lead—a black trashed-up BMW is chased through the streets of Boston by cop cars from Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Inside the fugitive vehicle, as Petula Clark’s 1964 global hit “Downtown” blares off the speakers, a well-meaning psychiatrist attempts to counsel her dispirited patient while he’s actively evading the police. In the back, a super talkative sot is incessantly cracking jokes, providing unnecessary commentary or interrupting the doctor-patient exchange. But all the driver wants is for someone to change the song. It’s the funniest high-speed car chase I’ve seen in a film in years.

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