Last night I watch The Instigators (2024), its a new heist comedy with Matt Damon and Casey Affleck that I made a preview post a few days ago, and it is rather okay, I'm not too harsh with my rating but there have been people online that gave it a 5/10. The movie based in Boston and directed by Doug Liman who honestly fails to recreate the charm of the old school heist movies. Damon and Affleck star as Rory and Cobby two criminals who plan a heist and then find themselves on a crime rampage that they cannot escape. The cast is absolutely well chosen so I don't feel the problem was lack of talent, featuring Hong Chau, Michael Stuhlbarg and Ron Perlman, and I was hoping for the best, there are some entertaining scenes and the relations between Damon and Affleck are well developed but the film has something that felt flat. It is not bad, but it is not good either, what I would call an ok one time watch as if you were just randomly watching cable, it is rather mediocre, you can tell the potential is there but it never gets exploited. The story has its suspense and complications and there are attempts at comedy but much of it is rather poor, I could not help but think that with such a cast and crew both in front of and behind the camera this could have been so much better, it is the type of film that you can sit down and watch on a afternoon and not really think too much of it afterwards.
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt24169886/
- Platform: AppleTV+
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I did not get the laughs and action I was expecting from this movie and I'm glad it was a streaming movie, something productions need to take advantage of, having streaming platforms where this type of movie fit better and often the audience can go a bit easy on them. It is not a movie that I would consider to be terrible but it is also not a movie that I would consider to be within the top 10 heist movies every, again a good one time watch. The two main actors Matt Damon and Casey Affleck have given their best and the best thing about the movie is that their characters have great on screen chemistry. It would sound unfair to keep talking about the humor side would only put a smile in your face and not make you laugh out loud but it is what it is, this is not an essay about the movie, just my opinion.
If you are a fan of Matt Damon or Casey Affleck you might enjoy it based on the fact that you will be a bit bias, it is my case and probably why I did not find it terrible as other may say. In a cruel way the movie perfectly describe how corrupt and cynical is the world we living when it comes to politics and see the main characters walk to the sunset does not make me felt any different about it. In general the film is decent at times but considering the cast it is rather disappointing, it’s a decent way to kill a couple of hours but it’s not something I would go and watch more than once.
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