The Instigators

Matt Roush says...

Director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) lightens up in a raucously silly caper enlivened by the wry banter between Matt Damon and co-writer Casey Affleck. They’re Rory and Cobby, sad-sack Boston burglars whose ill-conceived heist at a mayoral-election shindig goes sideways, triggering chases, shootouts, explosions and other assorted mayhem. The real instigators causing problems for the guys are a dyspeptic local crime boss (Michael Stuhlbarg) and a crooked mayor (Ron Perlman) who loses a MacGuffin-branded heirloom in the fallout. In the starry supporting cast, Hong Chau shines as Rory’s worried therapist, who comes along for the raucous ride, along with Black Bird’s Paul Walter Hauser, Ving Rhames, Jack Harlow, Alfred Molina and Toby Jones.

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