The Instigators (2024)

August 23, 2024 2:32 PM

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.

Trailer, review, review, Dunkin' ad. Streaming on Apple TV.

posted by box (4 comments total)

Is it as funny as the trailers make me hope for (but fear the worst for)?
posted by wenestvedt at 6:47 PM on August 24

It's funny.

I think the humor eventually goes too broad with the psychiatrist character (nothing wrong with the actor or performance; it's all a problem with the script) and makes the movie into more of a farce... but only in spots. It feels off. The mix-up that sets up the main plot is kinda far fetched in this era of cell phones. The bad guys aren't really very interesting. But overall? It was a decent flick.
posted by SoberHighland at 7:56 AM on August 25 [1 favorite]

It's funny. It's a "turn on the tv and turn off the brain" film.
posted by heathrowga at 9:12 AM on August 28

I watched most of it last night and laughed out loud a lot.

The Boston sights are fun, like the local ice rink dedicated to 1980 Olympian Mike Eurizione (actually located in Everett?).

The story is a nothing on which to hang so much dialogue, which I loved. And the character of Da Mayor is cartoonish and yet wonderful.

I can rarely sit still for a whole movie, but this one did it for me.
posted by wenestvedt at 6:28 AM on September 8