The Instigators (2024)

A breezy caper comedy, ‘The Instigators’ is just entertaining enough. ‘The Instigators’ won’t make you laugh out loud or leave much of an impression, but its stars’ easy chemistry gets you through its off-the-rails plot.

Doug Liman hasn’t had a good time with his chosen profession in recent years. The director’s last three efforts, ‘Chaos Walking,’ ‘Locked Down,’ and ‘Road House,’ have all ranged somewhere between mediocre and unwatchable, a steep fall for the filmmaker who once brought us ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ and ‘The Bourne Identity.’ His latest outing, the crime caper comedy ‘The Instigators,’ isn’t a great piece of work, but it’s considerably more entertaining that his previous few films even if it runs into its own problems.