The Instigators – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

THE INSTIGATORS – Review by Susan Granger

August 15, 2024August 19, 2024 Susan Granger casey affleck, doug liman, hong Chau, matt damon, Ron Perlman, The Instigators, Ving Rhames

Friends since their Cambridge, Massachusetts, childhood, Matt Damon and Casey Affleck (younger brother of Ben – with whom Damon wrote Good Will Hunting) went back to their native Boston to film this wannabe action-comedy caper. Desperate Rory (Damon) is a divorced, debt-ridden ex-Marine who’s so depressed because he can’t come up with the $32,480 he owes in legal fees and child support for his teenage son that his VA psychiatrist, Dr. Donna Rivera (Hong Chau), fears he might be a suicide risk.

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THE INSTIGATORS – Review by T. J. Callahan

August 6, 2024August 7, 2024 T. J. Callahan Alfred Molina, ben affleck, casey affleck, doug liman, hong Chau, matt damon, Michael Stuhlbarg, Paul Walter Hauser, Ron Perlman, The Instigators, Toby Jones, Ving Rhames

The Instigators reunites Matt Damon with the Affleck brothers, Casey as a co-star and Ben as producer, in this heist comedy set in their hometown of Boston where the accents are as thick as the bumbling criminals trying to stay one step ahead of the law. Damon is an ex-Marine, a divorced dad wanting to do right by his son. Casey is a wayward ex-con with a drinking problem. The two are thrown together as part of an inept Ocean’s Eleven tasked with robbing the city’s corrupt mayor. When the caper collapses, the would-be thieves find themselves on the run from not only the police, but the profiteering politician’s henchmen.