Supporting actors like Ving Rhames and André De Shields offer brief moments of light entertainment, but they are frequently overshadowed by miscast Affleck and other actors like Paul Walter Hauser, who is giving a truly awful performance in The Instigators on Soap2Day. Damon plays the straight-man role decently, and the script at least offers one nice payoff in his character's journey regarding fatherhood. With the exception of a few excellent automobile stunts, Liman and his crew's filmmaking isn't doing much better either. It is impossible to emphasize how lacking The Instigators is in drive, humor, and sophistication. Honestly, with all these talented people getting together, it shouldn't be too difficult to create a certified crowd-pleaser, but nonetheless, all we were left with was a huge letdown. If not better movies, let's go watch some hockey.
