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so the instigator yeah uh this is on
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apple plus uh Apple TV plus uh filmed by
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Doug Lyman uh produced by Matt Damon and
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Ben Affleck Stars Matt Damon Casey
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Affleck uh basic story is uh there's an
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election in Boston uh the mayor is about
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to be reelected and uh during the
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re-election celebration a lot of donors
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come in to donate films uh sorry donate
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money uh to the mayor's a lot of this is
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all done in cash under the table and uh
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these guys hire uh Ben Matt Damon and
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case Affleck to Rob uh the celebration
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party uh take all that money and uh you
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know it's it's a heist movie uh Matt
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Damon's character uh let's see Rory uh
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he has to make good with his family uh
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and by doing that he needs to come with
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$40,000 or 38,8 420 uh Casey Fleck is
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just a jerk and no one likes working
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with him and the only thing he could do
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is crime um and so this becomes a heist
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movie uh the problem is this becomes the
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Murphy's Law of all heist movies they go
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in first of all uh the mayor uh loses
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the election and so the donors aren't
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there uh when they go in they're being
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led by uh by scalvo who has cased the
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place well he didn't do a good job
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because they get lost uh all the the
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notes that they have about maneuvering
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through this building uh they're
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completely wrong and uh and also when
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they finally get to the uh the safe
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there's no money there because there's
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no donations and uh as because they're
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lost they wind up uh coming face to face
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with the mayor who's played by Ron
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Pearlman and they decide they're gonna
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Salvage the situation and they're going
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to rob him and they rob him of a bra a
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valuable bracelet uh that he has uh and
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so now they're out they're on the Run
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they're being not only chased by the old
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mayor and his uh his corrupt cronies U
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but he's also being chased by the guys
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who hired them because they couldn't do
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the job and so now they have to figure
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out how to get out of the situation uh
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alive um you know uh this is a this is
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an okay movie uh I had fun but there's
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nothing really groundbreaking here uh
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you know when when I think about Matt
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Damon and Ben Affleck making a movie I
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think of Goodwill Hunting um everyone
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does yeah you know there's a lot of
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heart there's a lot of uh you know just
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the discussions between Matt Damon and
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Robin Williams uh is just so emotionally
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packed uh while we have a heist movie
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here um and it's really about this
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relationship with uh between Matt and
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Casey you know we've seen this before uh
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I will say hung Chow is in the movie
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you've seen her the the reverse is true
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here usually see her uh as uglified in
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other movies she actually uh looks
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pretty good in this movie looks pretty
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normal in this movie the only issue I
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have is her name is Dr Rivera so again
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they've given a uh an Asian actor uh a
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Hispanic name and I don't I don't
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understand and I feel like this is a
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trend going on aside from all that I
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think you know if you have Apple TV plus
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and you you just want to sit down and
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unplug your brain and have a a decent
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time uh this is this is a good movie um
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Ving RS is in the movie he plays a heavy
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uh always good at that uh Alfred
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Molina's in the movie always good Ron
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Pearlman is the evil corrupt mayor um so
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it's a solid movie uh but it's it's
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fairly lightweight and deserves to be on
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Apple TV plus I I'll tell you this based
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on solely the poster it wildly
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uninteresting yeah I mean look how basic
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it is look it's heads and a title right
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uh this this little Center piece here
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the the center here it's like 10% of the
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of the of the uh landscape or of the uh
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of the poster you see little cop cars I
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mean what does that tell you it tells
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you nothing the instigators it tells me
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I'll be folding my laundry while I watch
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this right the instigators I mean you
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see the title The instigators does my
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description of the plot even match
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that I mean yeah yeah yeah so do you
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recommend it do you recommend it bar
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barely uh it's an okay film it's not a
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bad film it's just okay
